Bill Text: NY S07196 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          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.
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