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

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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]

Download: New_York-2023-A10041-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10041--B

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 2, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. BORES, SEPTIMO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee -- again
          reported from said committee with  amendments,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        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 individuals residing in
     9  a given judicial district, the number of cases filed in each court,  the
    10  complexity  of  such  cases,  the extent of delays in the disposition of
    11  cases in each court, and any other factors used by  recognized  national
    12  or  state  authorities  who  study  the  proper  allocation  of judicial
    13  resources.
    14    § 2. Paragraph (j) of subdivision 1 of section 212  of  the  judiciary
    15  law,  as added by chapter 156 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as
    16  follows:
    17    (j) Collect, compile  and  publish  statistics  and  other  data  with
    18  respect  to  the unified court system in order to assist the legislature
    19  in performing its functions pursuant to section two  hundred  nineteen-f
    20  of  this  article and submit annually, on or before the fifteenth day of
    21  March, to the legislature and the governor a report of [his] such admin-
    22  istrator's activities and the state of the unified court  system  during
    23  the  preceding  year.   Such report shall include recommendations on the
    24  number of judges and justices needed in each  court,  which  recommenda-
    25  tions shall be acted upon in such manner as the legislature may direct.
    26    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    27  it shall have become a law.

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