Bill Text: NY A01785 | 2023-2024 | 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, 2024, and in at least three counties, effective January 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-07-17 - enacting clause stricken [A01785 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01785-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1785

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 20, 2023
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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;  and  providing  for  the  repeal  of  such
          provisions upon expiration thereof

          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, that the chief administrator  of  the  courts  shall
     5  require  that  the court remain open until midnight at least one night a
     6  week in at least two counties in the city of New York, effective January
     7  first, two thousand twenty-four, and in at least three counties in  such
     8  city,  effective  January  first, two thousand twenty-five. When a court
     9  remains open until midnight on a  day  as  provided  herein,  the  chief
    10  administrator  shall determine the classes of cases that may be heard in
    11  such court after five o'clock p.m. and such  classes  of  cases  may  be
    12  heard  by  the court until midnight on such day; except that, where such
    13  classes include cases in which petitions are filed pursuant to  articles
    14  three,  six,  eight,  and ten of this act, the clerk of such court shall
    15  accept such petitions until eleven o'clock p.m. on such day.
    16    § 2. Not later than December 1, 2025, the chief administrator  of  the
    17  courts  shall  submit  to  the  legislature, the governor, and the chief
    18  judge of the state a report evaluating the use of family  court  in  the
    19  counties wherein the chief administrator, pursuant to subdivision (a) of
    20  section  161 of the family court act, as amended pursuant to section one
    21  of this act, has required that the court remain open until midnight.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire April  1,
    23  2026  when  upon  such  date  the provisions of this act shall be deemed
    24  repealed.

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