Bill Text: NY A10687 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits elderly individuals to be excused from jury service without the need to demonstrate any incapacity or hardship.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-01 - referred to judiciary [A10687 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10687-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10687 IN ASSEMBLY July 1, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Glick, Schimminger, Galef, Cymbrowitz, Otis, Jaffee, McDonald, Barron, Quart, De La Rosa, Lentol, Reyes, Mosley, Zebrowski, Cruz, Dickens, Gunther, Griffin, Taylor, Ortiz, Lupardo, Rozic, Lifton, D. Rosenthal, Engle- bright, Bronson, Cahill, O'Donnell) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to permitting elderly individuals to be excused from jury service; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 517 of the judiciary law, is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph 3 to read as follows: 3 (3) An application for excusal from the whole of the time of jury 4 service shall be granted hereunder upon the request of any person who is 5 seventy years of age or over made to the commissioner of jurors, without 6 any need to show mental or physical incapacity, undue hardship or 7 extreme inconvenience to the applicant. 8 § 2. Subdivision (c) of section 517 of the judiciary law, as amended 9 by chapter 86 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows: 10 (c) [In] Except as provided in paragraph three of subdivision (a) of 11 this section, in determining whether an application for excusal should 12 be granted, the commissioner or the court shall consider whether the 13 applicant has a mental or physical condition that causes him or her to 14 be incapable of performing jury service or there is any other fact indi- 15 cates that attendance for jury service in accordance with the summons 16 would cause undue hardship or extreme inconvenience to the applicant, a 17 person under his or her care or supervision, or the public. Except as 18 provided in paragraph two of subdivision (a) of this section, in deter- 19 mining whether an application for postponement should be granted, the 20 commissioner or the court shall be guided by standards promulgated by 21 the chief administrator of the courts. 22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 23 deemed repealed 2 years after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16751-01-0