Bill Text: NY S09839 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the number of judges in family court to 67; adds twelve additional judges to the civil court of the city of New York; adds additional family court judges to Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Erie, Jefferson, Nassau, Rensselaer, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester counties.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2024-07-17 - SIGNED CHAP.204 [S09839 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09839-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9839

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 3, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the family court act and the New York city  civil  court
          act, in relation to increasing the number of judges in certain courts

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by  chapter
     2  749 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New York
     4  shall consist of [sixty-three]  sixty-seven  judges,  effective  January
     5  first,  two  thousand [twenty-four] twenty-five. There shall be at least
     6  one family court judge resident in each county of the city of New York.
     7    § 2. Section 102-a of the New York city civil court act is amended  by
     8  adding a new subdivision 2-b to read as follows:
     9    2-b.  Twelve  additional  judges of the civil court of the city of New
    10  York shall be elected in and from the residents of the  following  coun-
    11  ties  in the indicated numbers: from the county of New York, three; from
    12  the county of Bronx, three; from the county of Kings,  three;  and  from
    13  the  county  of  Queens, three. Such additional judges shall receive the
    14  same compensation as the existing judges of the civil court of the  city
    15  of New York and shall be elected countywide within the city of New York.
    16    §  3.  Section  131 of the family court act is amended by adding a new
    17  subdivision (x) to read as follows:
    18    (x) There shall be an additional family court judge for  each  of  the
    19  following counties: Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Erie, Jefferson, Rensse-
    20  laer,  Rockland and Westchester. Moreover, there shall be two additional
    21  family court judges from the county of Suffolk and there  shall  be  two
    22  additional  family  court  judges from the county of Nassau. The compen-
    23  sation of each such additional family court judge shall be the  same  as
    24  the compensation paid to each existing family court judge in such county
    25  or, if there is no separately-elected family court judge in such county,
    26  the same as the compensation paid to a judge of the county court in such
    27  county.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    §  4.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
     2  the positions created by sections two and three of  this  act  shall  be
     3  filled  by  election  at  the  November  5, 2024 election, for a term to
     4  commence on the first day of January, 2025, as if such vacancy  occurred
     5  on  the  effective  date of this act. Party nominations shall be made as
     6  provided for in section 6-116 and 6-158 of the  election  law,  and  the
     7  independent nominations shall be made as provided for by subdivision ten
     8  of section 6-158 of the election law.