STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3220

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMPSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the family court act,  in  relation  to  establishing  a
          separate office of judge of the family court for the county of Essex

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

     1    Section 1. Section 131 of the family court act is amended by adding  a
     2  new subdivision (y) to read as follows:
     3    (y)  There shall be a separate office of judge of the family court for
     4  the county of Essex and  the  compensation  payable  for  such  separate
     5  office  of  judge  of  the family court shall be the same as the compen-
     6  sation payable to the judge of the county court of the county of Essex.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately  except  that  the  family
     8  court judge for the county of Essex provided for in this act shall first
     9  be elected at the general election to be held in November 2025 and shall
    10  first take office January 1, 2026.






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