Bill Text: NY A10041 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the legislature to ensure that the number of judges and justices in districts and courts is sufficient; directs the chief administrator of the courts to report on the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in each court and to make recommendations on such numbers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-31 - print number 10041b [A10041 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10041

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 2, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to the sufficiency of the
          number of judges and justices in districts and courts

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

     1    Section  1. The judiciary law is amended by adding a new section 219-f
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 219-f. Sufficiency of number of judges and justices in districts and
     4  courts. In exercising its powers pursuant to subdivision  b  of  section
     5  six  of  article  six of the constitution, the legislature shall seek to
     6  ensure that each  district  and  court  therein  shall  have  sufficient
     7  numbers  of  judges  and justices to perform its functions in a thorough
     8  and efficient manner, considering the number  of  cases  filed  in  each
     9  court,  the complexity of such cases, the extent of delays in the dispo-
    10  sition of cases in each court, and any other factors used by  recognized
    11  national  or  state authorities who study the proper allocation of judi-
    12  cial resources.
    13    § 2. Paragraph (j) of subdivision 1 of section 212  of  the  judiciary
    14  law,  as added by chapter 156 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as
    15  follows:
    16    (j) Collect, compile  and  publish  statistics  and  other  data  with
    17  respect  to  the  unified  court system and to assist the legislature in
    18  performing its functions pursuant to section two hundred  nineteen-f  of
    19  this  article  and  submit  annually,  on or before the fifteenth day of
    20  March, to the legislature and the governor a report of [his] such admin-
    21  istrator's activities and the state of the unified court  system  during
    22  the  preceding year. Such report shall include a specific recommendation
    23  to change the number of judges and justices as needed in each court.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    25  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15384-01-4