Bill Text: NY S06870 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for the establishment of a separate office of family court judge for the county of Essex.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-22 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S06870 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06870-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6870 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE September 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to establishing a separate office of judge of the family court for the county of Essex The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 131 of the family court act is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision (w) to read as follows: 3 (w) There shall be a separate office of judge of the family court for 4 the county of Essex and the compensation payable for such separate 5 office of judge of the family court shall be the same as the compen- 6 sation payable to the judge of the county court of the county of Essex. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately except that the family 8 court judge for the county of Essex provided for in this act shall first 9 be elected at the general election to be held in November 2018 and shall 10 first take office January 1, 2019. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13372-01-7
