Bill Text: NY S07196 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to jury pools for United States district courts; broadens jury pools for selection.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-15 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9273 [S07196 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S07196-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7196 IN SENATE April 6, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, the tax law and the social services law, in relation to jury pools for United States district courts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 537 of the labor 2 law, as amended by chapter 551 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 b. Chief administrator of the courts; commissioners of jurors; county 5 clerks; chief judges of United States district courts; clerks of the 6 court or jury administrators of the United States district courts. 7 (i) The commissioner shall provide lists of the names of persons 8 receiving unemployment insurance benefits to the chief administrator of 9 the courts, appointed pursuant to section two hundred ten of the judici- 10 ary law. The lists shall be provided for the sole purpose of integration 11 into lists of prospective jurors as provided by section five hundred six 12 of the judiciary law. The chief administrator of the courts shall upon 13 request provide information from the lists to the commissioner of jurors 14 in each county or, in a county within a city having a population of one 15 million or more, the county clerk of said county, solely for the purpose 16 of compiling lists of prospective jurors for the appropriate county. The 17 lists of persons receiving unemployment insurance benefits shall be 18 provided only pursuant to a cooperative agreement between the chief 19 administrator of the courts and the commissioner that is consistent with 20 all federal regulations or requirements governing such disclosures and 21 guarantees that all necessary steps shall be taken by the chief adminis- 22 trator of the courts, the commissioners of jurors and the county clerks 23 to insure that the lists are kept confidential and that there is no 24 unauthorized use or disclosure of such lists. Furthermore, the lists 25 will be provided only if the chief administrator of the courts deter- 26 mines that the lists are needed for integration into lists of prospec- 27 tive jurors in one or more counties. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13454-03-6