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Jun 02, 2014 |
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May 20, 2014 |
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Assembly Bill A9754
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
WEINSTEIN
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Judiciary Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Linda Rosenthal
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Donna Lupardo
David Buchwald
multi-Sponsors
Deborah Glick
Andrew Goodell
Catherine Nolan
Anthony H. Palumbo
2013-A9754 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Judiciary
- Law Section:
- Family Court Act
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยงยง121 & 131, Fam Ct Act
2013-A9754 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9754 I N A S S E M B L Y May 20, 2014 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to the number of judg- es of the family court THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by chapter 209 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows: S 121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New York shall consist of [forty-four judges and, as of July first, nineteen hundred ninety, shall consist of forty-five judges and, as of April first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, shall consist of forty-seven] FIFTY-SIX judges, EFFECTIVE JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN. [At least one of the persons appointed to the office of judge of the family court created by this section, shall be a resident of the county of Richmond and hereafter there] THERE shall be at least one family court judge resident in each county of the city of New York. [The amount of compensation for such new family court judges shall be equal to the compensation payable to existing family court judges in the city of New York.] S 2. Section 131 of the family court act is amended by adding a new subdivision (u) to read as follows: (U) THERE SHALL BE AN ADDITIONAL FAMILY COURT JUDGE FOR EACH OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: ALBANY, BROOME, CHAUTAUQUA, ERIE, MONROE, NASSAU, ONEIDA, OSWEGO, SCHENECTADY, SUFFOLK AND WESTCHESTER. THE COMPENSATION OF EACH SUCH ADDITIONAL FAMILY COURT JUDGE SHALL BE THE SAME AS THE COMPENSATION PAID TO EACH EXISTING FAMILY COURT JUDGE IN THE COUNTY FOR WHICH IT IS ESTABLISHED. S 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that the additional family court judges provided for by section two of this act shall first be elected at the general election to be held in Novem- ber 2014 and shall first take office January 1, 2015. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15309-01-4
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