Bill Text: NY A00739 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the hours of operation for family courts; requires family courts in New York City to remain open until midnight on at least one weekday each week in at least two counties effective January 1, 2023, and in at least three counties, effective January 1, 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-12 - print number 739c [A00739 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00739-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           739

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. D. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to the hours of opera-
          tion for family courts

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision (a) of section 161 of the family court act is
     2  amended to read as follows:
     3    (a) The days and hours the court is open shall be as provided by  rule
     4  of  court; provided, however, a court in a city with a population of one
     5  million or more shall remain open until midnight on weekdays.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     7  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05138-01-1