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

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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-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         739--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. D. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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, the family court in each county within  the
     5  city  of New York shall remain open until midnight on at least one week-
     6  day each week.   The clerk of the court  in  such  family  courts  shall
     7  accept, until at least eleven o'clock p.m.,  petitions filed pursuant to
     8  articles  three,  six,  eight,  and ten of this act on such weekday. Any
     9  matter pursuant to any article of this act may be  heard  by  the  court
    10  until midnight on such weekday.
    11    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    12  the date on which it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05138-05-1