Bill Text: NY S06210 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Requires more specific data reporting by the chief administrator to include information relating to all courts in the unified court system, including town and village courts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-06 - ordered to third reading rules cal.491 [S06210 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S06210-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Requires more specific data reporting by the chief administrator to include information relating to all courts in the unified court system, including town and village courts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-06 - ordered to third reading rules cal.491 [S06210 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S06210-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6210 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- 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 requiring data report- ing by the chief administrator to delineate specific information relating to county, city, town, village and district courts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 212 of the judi- 2 ciary law, as amended by chapter 323 of the laws of 1987, the closing 3 paragraph as amended by chapter 349 of the laws of 1995, is amended to 4 read as follows: 5 (e) Prepare forms and compile data on family offenses, proceedings or 6 actions in all courts, including county, city, town, village and 7 district courts, including but not limited to the following information: 8 (i) the offense alleged; 9 (ii) the relationship of the alleged offender to the petitioner or 10 complainant; 11 (iii) the court where the action or proceeding was instituted, whether 12 village, town, city, county, district, family, criminal or supreme 13 court; 14 (iv) the disposition; and 15 (v) in the case of dismissal, the reasons therefor. 16 In executing this requirement, the chief administrator may adopt rules 17 requiring appropriate law enforcement or criminal justice agencies to 18 identify actions and proceedings involving family offenses and, with 19 respect to such actions and proceedings, to report, in such form and 20 manner as the chief administrator shall prescribe, the information spec- 21 ified herein. 22 The chief administrator of the courts shall adopt rules to facilitate 23 record sharing and other communication among the supreme, criminal and 24 family courts, subject to applicable provisions of the domestic EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10553-01-3S. 6210 2 1 relations law, criminal procedure law and the family court act pertain- 2 ing to the confidentiality, expungement and sealing of records, where 3 such courts exercise concurrent jurisdiction over family offense 4 proceedings or proceedings involving orders of protection. 5 § 2. The opening paragraphs of (u-1) and (v-1) of subdivision 2 of 6 section 212 of the judiciary law, as added by chapter 102 of the laws of 7 2020, are amended to read as follows: 8 Compile and publish data on misdemeanor offenses in all courts, disag- 9 gregated by county, city, town, village, or district court, including 10 the following information: 11 Compile and publish data on violations, to the greatest extent practi- 12 cable, in all courts, disaggregated by county, city, town, village, or 13 district court, including the following information: 14 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 212 of the judiciary law is amended by 15 adding three new paragraphs (cc), (cc-1) and (dd) to read as follows: 16 (cc) Prepare forms and compile and publish data on eviction filings, 17 proceedings or actions in all courts, disaggregated by county, city, 18 town, village, or district court, including but not limited to the 19 following information: 20 (i) the total number of eviction filings in each court by month; 21 (ii) the total number of holdover proceedings versus nonpayment 22 proceedings; 23 (iii) the court where the action or proceeding was instituted; 24 (iv) the disposition of the proceeding, including whether a warrant of 25 eviction was issued; and 26 (v) in the case of dismissal, the reasons therefor. 27 (cc-1) Include the information required by paragraph (cc) of this 28 subdivision in the annual report submitted to the legislature and the 29 governor pursuant to paragraph (j) of subdivision one of this section. 30 The chief administrator shall also make the information required by 31 paragraph (cc) of this subdivision available to the public by posting it 32 on the website of the office of court administration and shall update 33 such information on a monthly basis. The information shall be posted in 34 alphanumeric form that can be digitally transmitted or processed and not 35 in portable document format or scanned copies of original documents. 36 (dd) In addition to the data reporting required under paragraphs (e), 37 (u-1), (v-1), (cc), and (cc-1) of this subdivision, wherever the chief 38 administrator is required to compile, report, and make other court data 39 publicly available, or wherever the chief administrator opts to require 40 such collection, reporting, and public availability of data, this shall 41 include data from all county, city, village, town and district courts, 42 disaggregated by locality. 43 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 44 it shall have become a law.
