Bill Text: NY A07481 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases the number of supreme court justices in the thirteenth judicial district to ten and in the second judicial district to fifty-two.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-25 - print number 7481a [A07481 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07481-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7481--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 6, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUSICK,  V. LOPEZ,  TITONE  -- read once and
         referred to the Committee on Judiciary -- recommitted to the Committee
         on Judiciary in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to the number of justices
         of the supreme court in the second and thirteenth judicial districts
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 13 of section  140-a  of  the  judiciary
    2  law, subdivision 2 as amended and subdivision 13 as added by chapter 690
    3  of the laws of 2007, are amended to read as follows:
    4    2. Second district, [forty-nine] FIFTY-TWO;
    5    13. Thirteenth district, [three] TEN.
    6    S  2.  Justice  Thomas  P. Aliotta, and his successor in office on the
    7  effective date of this act shall for the remainder of the term for which
    8  he or she was elected or appointed be a justice of the supreme court  in
    9  and for the thirteenth judicial district.
   10    S  3. Two of the additional justices of the supreme court in the thir-
   11  teenth judicial district and two  additional  justices  of  the  supreme
   12  court  in  the  second  judicial district provided for by section one of
   13  this act shall first be elected at the general election to  be  held  in
   14  November  2012  and  shall  first  take office January 1, 2013.  Another
   15  three of the additional justices of the supreme court in the  thirteenth
   16  judicial district and the other two justices of the supreme court in the
   17  second  judicial  district provided for by section one of this act shall
   18  first be elected at the general election to be held in November 2013 and
   19  shall first take office January  1,  2014.    The  remaining  additional
   20  justice  of  the  supreme  court  in  the  thirteenth  judicial district
   21  provided for by section one of this act shall first be  elected  at  the
   22  general election to be held in November 2014 and shall first take office
   23  January 1, 2015.
   24    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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