Bill Text: NY S01911 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to permitting prospective jurors having attained the age of seventy-five to be exempt from jury duty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S01911 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01911-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1911
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation  to  exempting  residents
          seventy-five years of age or older from serving on juries
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 509 of the judiciary law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) On the juror qualification questionnaire, the  commissioner  shall
     4  provide  the option for those prospective jurors having attained the age
     5  of seventy-five to decline participation in the instant case and/or  all
     6  future  cases at the sole discretion of the person to whom the question-
     7  naire is mailed.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply  to  legal
     9  cases initiated on or after such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07440-01-7