Bill Text: NY S04657 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases the number of supreme court justices in the thirteenth judicial district to ten and in the second judicial district to fifty-two.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-09 - referred to judiciary [S04657 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04657-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4657--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 1, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary  --  recommitted
          to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to the number of justices
          of the supreme court in the second and thirteenth judicial districts
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  2  and 13 of section 140-a of the judiciary
     2  law, subdivision 2 as amended and subdivision 13 as added by chapter 690
     3  of the laws of 2007, are amended to read as follows:
     4    2. Second district, [forty-nine] fifty-two;
     5    13. Thirteenth district, [three] ten.
     6    § 2. Justice Thomas P. Aliotta, and his successor  in  office  on  the
     7  effective date of this act shall for the remainder of the term for which
     8  he  or she was elected or appointed be a justice of the supreme court in
     9  and for the thirteenth judicial district.
    10    § 3. Two of the additional justices of the supreme court in the  thir-
    11  teenth  judicial  district  and  two  additional justices of the supreme
    12  court in the second judicial district provided for  by  section  one  of
    13  this  act  shall  first be elected at the general election to be held in
    14  November 2017 and shall first take office  January  1,  2018.    Another
    15  three  of the additional justices of the supreme court in the thirteenth
    16  judicial district and the other two justices of the supreme court in the
    17  second judicial district provided for by section one of this  act  shall
    18  first be elected at the general election to be held in November 2018 and
    19  shall  first  take  office  January  1,  2019.  The remaining additional
    20  justice of  the  supreme  court  in  the  thirteenth  judicial  district
    21  provided  for  by  section one of this act shall first be elected at the
    22  general election to be held in November 2019 and shall first take office
    23  January 1, 2020.
    24    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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