Assembly Bill A1956

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Allows for the optional exclusion from jury service for persons age 65 and older

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A1956 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §517, Judy L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10655
2019-2020: A3270

2021-A1956 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows for the optional exclusion from jury service for persons age 65 and older.

2021-A1956 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1956
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to optional excusal from
   jury service for persons age 65 and over
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  (a)  of  section 517 of the judiciary law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph 3 to read as follows:
   (3) AN APPLICATION FOR EXCUSAL FROM THE WHOLE  OF  THE  TIME  OF  JURY
 SERVICE SHALL BE GRANTED HEREUNDER UPON THE REQUEST OF ANY PERSON WHO IS
 SIXTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  AGE  OR  OVER MADE TO THE COMMISSIONER OF JURORS,
 WITHOUT ANY NEED TO SHOW MENTAL OR PHYSICAL INCAPACITY,  UNDUE  HARDSHIP
 OR EXTREME INCONVENIENCE TO THE APPLICANT. THE APPLICATION WITH PROOF OF
 AGE  SHALL  BE  PRESENTED  TO THE COMMISSIONER BY MAIL, FAX, EMAIL OR IN
 PERSON AT SUCH TIME AS HE OR SHE SHALL REQUIRE.
   § 2. Subdivision (c) of section 517 of the judiciary law,  as  amended
 by chapter 86 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
   (c)  [In]  EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH THREE OF SUBDIVISION (A) OF
 THIS SECTION, IN determining whether an application for  excusal  should
 be  granted,  the  commissioner  or the court shall consider whether the
 applicant has a mental or physical condition that causes him or  her  to
 be incapable of performing jury service or there is any other fact WHICH
 indicates  that  attendance  for  jury  service  in  accordance with the
 summons would cause undue  hardship  or  extreme  inconvenience  to  the
 applicant, a person under his or her care or supervision, or the public.
 Except  as provided in paragraph two of subdivision (a) of this section,
 in determining whether an application for postponement should be  grant-
 ed,  the  commissioner or the court shall be guided by standards promul-
 gated by the chief administrator of the courts.
   § 3. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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