Bill Text: NY S01966 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases the number of family court judges in Monroe county from six to eight; provides that the additional judges shall be elected in November of 2017 and take office January 1, 2018.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-21 - PRINT NUMBER 1966A [S01966 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01966-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1966--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 15, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary  --  recommitted
          to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the family court act,  in  relation  to  increasing  the
          number of family court judges for the county of Monroe
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 131 of the family court act,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  178  of  the  laws  of 2000, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (e) In the county of Monroe there shall be [six]  eight  family  court
     5  judges  and  the  number  of  such judges now existing in said county is
     6  hereby increased accordingly; in the county of Erie there shall  be  six
     7  family  court  judges and the number of such judges now existing in said
     8  county is hereby increased accordingly. In the county  of  Albany  there
     9  shall  be  a  total  of three family court judges and the number of such
    10  judges now existing in such county is hereby increased accordingly.
    11    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately except  that  the  family
    12  court  judges  provided  for  in  this act shall first be elected at the
    13  general election to be held in  November,  2017  and  shall  first  take
    14  office January 1, 2018.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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