STATE OF NEW YORK
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4567
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 5, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 the number of justices
of the supreme court in the second and thirteenth judicial districts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 13 of section 140-a of the judiciary
2 law, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 690 of the laws of 2007 and
3 subdivision 13 as amended by section 1 of part T of chapter 39 of the
4 laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
5 2. Second district, [forty-nine] fifty-two;
6 13. Thirteenth district, [five] ten.
7 § 2. Justice Thomas P. Aliotta, and his successor in office on the
8 effective date of this act shall for the remainder of the term for which
9 he or she was elected or appointed be a justice of the supreme court in
10 and for the thirteenth judicial district.
11 § 3. Two of the additional justices of the supreme court in the thir-
12 teenth judicial district and two additional justices of the supreme
13 court in the second judicial district provided for by section one of
14 this act shall first be elected at the general election to be held in
15 November 2022 and shall first take office January 1, 2023. Another
16 three of the additional justices of the supreme court in the thirteenth
17 judicial district and the other justice of the supreme court in the
18 second judicial district provided for by section one of this act shall
19 first be elected at the general election to be held in November 2022 and
20 shall first take office January 1, 2024. The remaining additional
21 justice of the supreme court in the thirteenth judicial district
22 provided for by section one of this act shall first be elected at the
23 general election to be held in November 2024 and shall first take office
24 January 1, 2025.
25 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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