Bill Text: NY A04393 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds three additional family court judges to the county of Richmond; adds three additional judges to the civil court of the county of Richmond.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-04 - referred to judiciary [A04393 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A04393-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4393

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the family court act and the New York city  civil  court
          act, in relation to increasing the number of judges in certain courts

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

     1    Section 1. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by  chapter
     2  204 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New York
     4  shall consist of sixty-seven judges, effective January first, two  thou-
     5  sand  twenty-five.  There shall be at least one family court judge resi-
     6  dent in each county of the city of New  York;  provided,  however,  that
     7  there shall be at least three family court judge residents in the county
     8  of Richmond.
     9    § 2. Subdivision 2-b of section 102-a of the New York city civil court
    10  act,  as added by chapter 204 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as
    11  follows:
    12    2-b. [Twelve additional] Additional judges of the civil court  of  the
    13  city  of  New  York  shall  be  elected in and from the residents of the
    14  following counties in the indicated numbers:  from  the  county  of  New
    15  York,  three; from the county of Bronx, three; from the county of Kings,
    16  three; [and] from the county of Queens, three; and from  the  county  of
    17  Richmond,  three.  Such additional judges shall receive the same compen-
    18  sation as the existing judges of the civil court of the city of New York
    19  and shall be elected countywide within the city of New York.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
    21  the  positions  created  by  sections  one  and two of this act shall be
    22  filled by election at the November 4,  2025  election,  for  a  term  to
    23  commence  on the first day of January, 2026, as if such vacancy occurred
    24  on the effective date of this act. Party nominations shall  be  made  as
    25  provided  for  in  section  6-116 and 6-158 of the election law, and the
    26  independent nominations shall be made as provided for by subdivision  10
    27  of section 6-158 of the election law.

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