Bill Text: NY A10664 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that no right, benefit, or advantage that attends a cause of action shall be lost when the cause of action is successfully reduced to a judgment, but shall be deemed to append to the judgment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-10 - referred to judiciary [A10664 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A10664-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10664 IN ASSEMBLY June 10, 2016 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Simotas) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to the effect of the entry of judgment on certain rights attendant to a cause of action The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The civil practice law and rules is amended by adding a new 2 section 5011-a to read as follows: 3 § 5011-a. Merger doctrine clarified. No right, benefit or advantage 4 that attends a cause of action shall be lost when the cause of action is 5 successfully reduced to a judgment, but shall be deemed to append to the 6 judgment as well. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 8 judgments that are rendered after such effective date or that are unsat- 9 isfied as of such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15811-01-6
