STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6870
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    September 6, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the family court act,  in  relation  to  establishing  a
          separate office of judge of the family court for the county of Essex
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 131 of the family court act is amended by adding  a
     2  new subdivision (w) to read as follows:
     3    (w)  There shall be a separate office of judge of the family court for
     4  the county of Essex and  the  compensation  payable  for  such  separate
     5  office  of  judge  of  the family court shall be the same as the compen-
     6  sation payable to the judge of the county court of the county of Essex.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately  except  that  the  family
     8  court judge for the county of Essex provided for in this act shall first
     9  be elected at the general election to be held in November 2018 and shall
    10  first take office January 1, 2019.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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