Bill Text: NY S06674 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates a fourteenth judicial district to consist of the counties of Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, and Rockland; makes the ninth judicial district solely the county of Westchester; makes related provisions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S06674 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06674-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6674 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 11, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to creating a fourteenth judicial district The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 70 of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 690 2 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 70. Judicial departments. The state is hereby divided into four 4 judicial departments. The first department shall consist of the counties 5 embraced within the first and twelfth judicial districts; the second 6 department shall consist of the counties embraced within the second, 7 ninth, tenth, eleventh [and], thirteenth and fourteenth judicial 8 districts; the third department shall consist of the counties embraced 9 within the third, fourth and sixth judicial districts; the fourth 10 department shall consist of the counties embraced within the fifth, 11 seventh and eighth judicial districts. 12 § 2. The opening paragraph and the ninth undesignated paragraph of 13 section 140 of the judiciary law, the opening paragraph as amended by 14 chapter 690 of the laws of 2007 and the ninth undesignated paragraph as 15 amended by chapter 10 of the laws of 1948, are amended and a new four- 16 teenth undesignated paragraph is added to read as follows: 17 The state is hereby divided into [thirteen] fourteen judicial 18 districts, pursuant to the provisions of the first section of the sixth 19 article of the constitution, which districts shall be arranged as 20 follows: 21 The ninth judicial district shall consist of the [counties] county of 22 Westchester[, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland]; 23 The fourteenth judicial district shall consist of the counties of 24 Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, and Rockland. The creation of such fourteenth 25 district shall not affect or impair the rights, privileges or compen- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10406-01-1S. 6674 2 1 sation of any officer or employee of the supreme court in office on the 2 first day of January, two thousand twenty-three in the ninth judicial 3 district as theretofore constituted; each such officer or employee 4 employed in the counties of Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, and Rockland on 5 such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the fourteenth 6 judicial district and each such officer or employee employed in the 7 county of Westchester on such date shall thereafter be an officer or 8 employee for the ninth judicial district. 9 § 3. Subdivisions 9 and 13 of section 140-a of the judiciary law, 10 subdivision 9 as amended by section 1 of part XX of chapter 59 of the 11 laws of 2018 and subdivision 13 as amended by section 1 of part T of 12 chapter 39 of the laws of 2019, are amended and a new subdivision 14 is 13 added to read as follows: 14 9. Ninth district, [twenty-nine] eighteen; 15 13. Thirteenth district, five[.]; 16 14. Fourteenth district, eleven. 17 § 4. 1. The following named justices or their successors in office on 18 the effective date of this act shall for the remainder of the terms 19 for which they were elected or appointed be justices of the Supreme 20 Court in and for the ninth judicial district as reconstituted and 21 continued by this act. 22 Kathie Davidson 23 Robert M. DiBella 24 David F. Everett 25 James Hubert 26 Linda S. Jamieson 27 Nancy Quinn Koba 28 Joan B. Lefkowitz 29 Lewis Lubell 30 Janet C. Malone 31 Alexandra D. Murphy 32 Robert S. Ondrovic 33 Terry Jane Ruderman 34 Mary Smith 35 Sam D. Walker 36 Gretchen M. Walsh 37 Barry E. Warhit 38 E. Loren Williams 39 Charles D. Wood 40 2. The following named justices or their successors in office on the 41 effective date of this act shall for the remainder of the terms for 42 which they were elected or appointed be justices of the Supreme Court in 43 and for the fourteenth judicial district as created and constituted by 44 this act. Any positions that were vacant on June 15, 2022 shall be 45 justices of the ninth judicial district. 46 Robert M. Berliner 47 Paul I. Marx 48 Thomas Zugibe 49 Gina C. Capone 50 Victor G. Grossman 51 Robert A. Onofry 52 Sandra Sciortino 53 Maria S. Vazquez-Doles 54 Christi J. Acker 55 Hal B. Greenwald 56 Maria G. RosaS. 6674 3 1 § 5. If any provisions of any section of this act shall be held void 2 or unconstitutional, all other provisions and all other sections of this 3 act which are not expressly held to be void or unconstitutional shall 4 continue in full force and effect. 5 § 6. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.