Bill Text: NY S06492 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the number of family court judges in the city of New York to seventy-two; provides for two additional family court judges for each of Westchester and Rockland counties and an additional family court judge for each of Erie and Niagara counties.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S06492 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06492-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6492

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 24, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to the number of judg-
          es in family court

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by chapter
     2  365 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New  York
     4  shall  consist  of [sixty] seventy-two judges[, effective January first,
     5  two thousand twenty-three]. There shall be at  least  one  family  court
     6  judge resident in each county of the city of New York.
     7    §  2.  Section  131 of the family court act is amended by adding a new
     8  subdivision (w) to read as follows:
     9    (w) There shall be two additional family  court  judges  for  each  of
    10  Westchester  and  Rockland counties and an additional family court judge
    11  for each of Erie and Niagara counties. The  compensation  of  each  such
    12  additional family court judge shall be the same as the compensation paid
    13  to each existing family court judge in the county for which it is estab-
    14  lished.
    15    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on immediately, provided, however,
    16  that the positions created by section two of this act shall be filled by
    17  election at the November 8, 2023 election, for a term to commence on the
    18  first day of January, 2024, as if such vacancy occurred on the effective
    19  date of this act.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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