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                                   9401
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 1, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LAVINE -- (at request of the Office of Court
   Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Judici-
   ary
 
             CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
 
 proposing  amendments  to  article 6 of the constitution, in relation to
   consolidation of the unified court system, and to repeal  sections  9,
   10,  11,  12, 13, 14, 16, 34, 35, 36, 36-a, 36-c, 37 and subdivision j
   of section 22 of article 6 of the constitution relating thereto
 
   Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 1 of  article
 6 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
   Section 1. a. There shall be a unified court system for the state. The
 state-wide  courts  shall  consist  of  the  court of appeals[,] AND the
 supreme court including the appellate divisions AND THE APPELLATE  TERMS
 thereof[,  the  court of claims, the county court, the surrogate's court
 and the family court,] as hereinafter provided. [The  legislature  shall
 establish  in and for the city of New York, as part of the unified court
 system for the state, a single, city-wide court  of  civil  jurisdiction
 and  a  single, city-wide court of criminal jurisdiction, as hereinafter
 provided, and may upon the request of the mayor and the  local  legisla-
 tive  body  of the city of New York, merge the two courts into one city-
 wide court of both civil and criminal jurisdiction.] The  unified  court
 system  for the state shall also include the [district] MUNICIPAL, town,
 [city] and village courts [outside the city of New York,] as hereinafter
 provided.
   b. The court of appeals, the supreme  court  including  the  appellate
 divisions  AND  THE APPELLATE TERMS thereof AS HEREINAFTER PROVIDED, the
 [court of claims, the county court, the surrogate's  court,  the  family
 court,  the  courts  or  court of civil and criminal jurisdiction of the
 city of New York] MUNICIPAL COURTS, and such other courts as the  legis-
 lature may determine shall be courts of record.
   c.  All  processes,  warrants,  and  other  mandates  of  the court of
 appeals[,] AND the supreme court including the appellate  divisions  AND
 THE APPELLATE TERMS thereof[, the court of claims, the county court, the
 surrogate's  court  and the family court] AS HEREINAFTER PROVIDED may be
 served and executed in any part of the state. All  processes,  warrants,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 and other mandates of the MUNICIPAL courts [or court of civil and crimi-
 nal  jurisdiction  of the city of New York] may, subject to such limita-
 tion as may  be  prescribed  by  the  legislature  PROVIDED  IT  APPLIES
 UNIFORMLY TO ALL MUNICIPAL COURTS, be served and executed in any part of
 the  state.  The  legislature  may provide that processes, warrants, and
 other mandates of [the district court may be served and executed in  any
 part  of  the  state and that processes, warrants and other mandates of]
 town[,] AND village [and city] courts [outside the city of New York] may
 be served and executed in any part of the county in  which  such  courts
 are located or in any part of any adjoining county.
   §  2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That subdivisions a, b, d and f
 of section 2 of article 6 of the constitution  be  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   a.  The  court  of  appeals  is continued. It shall consist of [the] A
 chief judge and [the] six [elected] associate judges [now in office, who
 shall hold their offices until the expiration of their respective terms,
 and their successors], and such justices of the supreme court as may  be
 designated for service in said court as hereinafter provided. The [offi-
 cial]  terms  of  the  chief judge and the six associate judges shall be
 fourteen years.
   Five members of the court shall constitute a quorum, and  the  concur-
 rence  of  four shall be necessary to a decision; but no more than seven
 judges shall sit in any case.  In  case  of  the  temporary  absence  or
 inability  to  act  of  any judge of the court of appeals, the court may
 designate any justice of the supreme court to serve as  associate  judge
 of  the  court  during such absence or inability to act. The court shall
 have power to appoint and to remove its clerk. The powers and  jurisdic-
 tion  of  the  court shall not be suspended for want of appointment when
 the number of judges is sufficient to constitute a quorum.
   b. Whenever and as often as the court of appeals shall certify to  the
 governor  that  the  court  is  unable, by reason of the accumulation of
 causes pending therein, to hear and dispose of the same with  reasonable
 speed,  the  governor  shall  designate  such  number of justices of the
 supreme court as may be so certified to be necessary, but not more  than
 four, to serve as associate judges of the court of appeals. The justices
 so  designated shall be relieved, while so serving, from their duties as
 justices of the supreme court, and shall serve as  associate  judges  of
 the court of appeals until the court shall certify that the need for the
 services  of  any  such  justices no longer exists, whereupon they shall
 return to the supreme court. The governor may fill vacancies among  such
 designated  judges.  No  such justices shall serve as associate judge of
 the court of appeals except while holding the office of justice  of  the
 supreme  court.  The designation of a justice of the supreme court as an
 associate judge of the court of appeals shall not be  deemed  to  affect
 [his  or  her]  SUCH JUSTICE'S existing office any longer than until the
 expiration of [his or her] SUCH JUSTICE'S designation as such  associate
 judge, nor to create a vacancy.
   d.  (1)  The commission on judicial nomination shall consist of twelve
 members of whom four shall be appointed by the  governor,  four  by  the
 chief  judge of the court of appeals, and one each by the speaker of the
 assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the minority leader  of
 the senate, and the minority leader of the assembly. Of the four members
 appointed  by  the  governor,  no more than two shall be enrolled in the
 same political party, two shall be members of the bar of the state,  and
 two  shall  not  be members of the bar of the state. Of the four members
 appointed by the chief judge of the court of appeals, no more  than  two
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 shall  be  enrolled in the same political party, two shall be members of
 the bar of the state, and two shall not be members of  the  bar  of  the
 state.  No member of the commission shall hold or have held any judicial
 office  or  hold  any  elected  public office for which [he or she] SUCH
 MEMBER receives compensation during [his or her] SUCH MEMBER'S period of
 service, except that the governor and the chief judge may  each  appoint
 no  more than one former judge or justice of the unified court system to
 such commission. No member of the commission shall hold  any  office  in
 any  political  party.   No member of the judicial nominating commission
 shall be eligible for appointment to judicial office in any court of the
 state during the member's period of service or within one year thereaft-
 er.
   (2) The members [first appointed by the governor  shall  have  respec-
 tively  one, two, three and four year terms as the governor shall desig-
 nate. The members first appointed by the chief judge  of  the  court  of
 appeals  shall  have respectively one, two, three and four year terms as
 the chief judge shall designate.  The  member  first  appointed  by  the
 temporary president of the senate shall have a one-year term. The member
 first  appointed  by the minority leader of the senate shall have a two-
 year term. The member first appointed by the  speaker  of  the  assembly
 shall  have a four-year term. The member first appointed by the minority
 leader of the assembly shall have a  three-year  term.  Each  subsequent
 appointment  shall  be] OF THE COMMISSION SHALL EACH SERVE for a term of
 four years.
   (3) The commission shall designate one of their  number  to  serve  as
 chairperson.
   (4) The commission shall consider the qualifications of candidates for
 appointment  to  the  offices  of  judge and chief judge of the court of
 appeals and, whenever a vacancy in those offices occurs, shall prepare a
 written report and recommend to the governor persons who are well quali-
 fied for those judicial offices.
   f. When a vacancy occurs in the office of  chief  judge  or  associate
 judge  of  the court of appeals and the senate is not in session to give
 its advice and consent to an appointment to fill the vacancy, the gover-
 nor shall fill the vacancy by interim appointment upon  the  recommenda-
 tion of a commission on judicial nomination as provided in this section.
 An  interim  appointment shall continue until the senate shall pass upon
 the governor's selection. If the senate  confirms  an  appointment,  the
 judge  shall  serve  a term as provided in subdivision a of this section
 commencing from the date of [his or her] SUCH JUDGE'S  interim  appoint-
 ment.  If  the  senate  rejects  an appointment, a vacancy in the office
 shall occur sixty days after such rejection. If an  interim  appointment
 to  the  court of appeals be made from among the justices of the supreme
 court or the appellate divisions thereof,  that  appointment  shall  not
 affect  the  justice's  existing  office,  nor  create  a vacancy in the
 supreme court, or the appellate division thereof, unless  such  appoint-
 ment  is  confirmed  by  the  senate and the appointee shall assume such
 office. If an interim appointment of chief judge of the court of appeals
 be made from among the associate judges, an interim appointment of asso-
 ciate judge shall be made in like manner; in such case, the  appointment
 as  chief judge shall not affect the existing office of associate judge,
 unless such appointment as chief judge is confirmed by  the  senate  and
 the appointee shall assume such office.
   § 3. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That subdivisions a, c, d, h and
 j  of  section  4 of article 6 of the constitution be amended to read as
 follows:
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   a. (1) The state shall be divided into four judicial departments.  The
 first  department  shall  consist  of  the counties within the first AND
 TWELFTH judicial [district] DISTRICTS of the state. The  second  depart-
 ment  shall  consist  of  the  counties  within the second, ninth, tenth
 [and],  eleventh,  AND  THIRTEENTH  judicial districts of the state. The
 third department shall consist of the counties within the third, fourth,
 and sixth judicial districts of the state. The fourth  department  shall
 consist  of  the counties within the fifth, seventh, and eighth judicial
 districts of the state. [Each department shall be bounded by  the  lines
 of judicial districts.]
   (2) Once every ten years, the legislature may INCREASE OR DECREASE THE
 NUMBER  OF JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS, OR alter the boundaries of the judicial
 departments[, but without  changing  the  number  thereof].    UPON  ANY
 ADJUSTMENT  HEREUNDER,  EACH DEPARTMENT SHALL BE BOUNDED BY THE LINES OF
 JUDICIAL DISTRICTS, AND THE JUSTICES OF EACH APPELLATE DIVISION AFFECTED
 BY SUCH ADJUSTMENT MAY BE RE-APPORTIONED, AND APPEALS IN  THEIR  RESPEC-
 TIVE  COURTS  TRANSFERRED, AS PROVIDED BY SUBDIVISION G OF SECTION TWEN-
 TY-SEVEN OF THIS ARTICLE.
   c. The governor shall designate the presiding justice of  each  appel-
 late  division, who shall act as such during [his or her] SUCH JUSTICE'S
 term of office and shall be a resident  of  the  department.  The  other
 justices of the appellate divisions shall be designated by the governor,
 from all the justices [elected to] OF the supreme court OTHER THAN THOSE
 APPOINTED TO FILL A VACANCY PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION A OF SECTION FIFTEEN
 OF  THIS  ARTICLE,  for terms of five years or the unexpired portions of
 their respective terms of office, if less than five years.
   d. The [justices heretofore designated shall continue to  sit  in  the
 appellate  divisions  until  the  terms of their respective designations
 shall expire. From time to time as the terms of the designations expire,
 or vacancies occur, the  governor  shall  make  new  designations.  The]
 governor  may also, on request of any appellate division, make temporary
 designations in case of the absence or inability to act of  any  justice
 in  such  appellate  division,  for  service only during such absence or
 inability to act.
   h. A justice of the appellate division of the  supreme  court  in  any
 department  may  be  temporarily  designated by the presiding justice of
 [his or her] SUCH department to the appellate division in another  judi-
 cial  department  upon agreement by the presiding justices of the appel-
 late division of the departments concerned.
   j. No justice of the appellate division shall, within  the  department
 to  which  [he  or  she]  SUCH  JUSTICE may be designated to perform the
 duties of an appellate justice, exercise any of the powers of a  justice
 of  the  supreme  court, other than those of a justice out of court, and
 those pertaining to the appellate division, except that the justice  may
 decide  causes  or proceedings theretofore submitted, or hear and decide
 motions submitted by consent of counsel, but any such justice, when  not
 actually  engaged  in performing the duties of such appellate justice in
 the department to which [he or she] SUCH JUSTICE is designated, may hold
 any term of the supreme court and  exercise  any  of  the  powers  of  a
 justice  of  the  supreme  court  in  any judicial district in any other
 department of the state.
   § 4. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That subdivisions a, b, c and  d
 of  section  6  of  article  6 of the constitution be amended to read as
 follows:
   a.  The  state  shall  be  divided  into  [eleven]  THIRTEEN  judicial
 districts.  The  first judicial district shall consist of the [counties]
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 COUNTY of [Bronx and] New  York.  The  second  judicial  district  shall
 consist  of  the  [counties]  COUNTY  of Kings [and Richmond]. The third
 judicial district shall consist of the  counties  of  Albany,  Columbia,
 Greene, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Ulster. The fourth judicial
 district  shall  consist  of  the  counties of Clinton, Essex, Franklin,
 Fulton,  Hamilton,  Montgomery,  St.  Lawrence,  Saratoga,  Schenectady,
 Warren  and Washington. The fifth judicial district shall consist of the
 counties of Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida,  Onondaga,  and  Oswego.
 The  sixth  judicial  district  shall consist of the counties of Broome,
 Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Otsego, Schuyler,  Tioga
 and  Tompkins.  The seventh judicial district shall consist of the coun-
 ties of Cayuga, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne  and
 Yates.  The  eighth  judicial  district shall consist of the counties of
 Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara,  Orleans  and
 Wyoming.  The  ninth  judicial district shall consist of the counties of
 Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester. The  tenth  judicial
 district  shall consist of the counties of Nassau and Suffolk. The elev-
 enth judicial district shall  consist  of  the  county  of  Queens.  THE
 TWELFTH  JUDICIAL  DISTRICT  SHALL  CONSIST OF THE COUNTY OF BRONX.  THE
 THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT SHALL CONSIST OF THE COUNTY OF RICHMOND.
   b. Once every ten years the legislature may increase or  decrease  the
 number  of  judicial  districts  or  alter  the  composition of judicial
 districts and thereupon re-apportion  the  justices  [to  be  thereafter
 elected] OF THE SUPREME COURT in the judicial districts so altered. Each
 judicial district shall be bounded by county lines.
   c. [The] EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN THIS ARTICLE, THE justices of
 the  supreme  court  shall  be  chosen  by  the electors of the judicial
 district in which they are to serve[. The] FOR terms of [justices of the
 supreme court shall be] fourteen years from and including the first  day
 of January next after their election.
   d.  The supreme court is continued. [It shall consist of the number of
 justices of the supreme court including the justices designated  to  the
 appellate  divisions of the supreme court, judges of the county court of
 the counties of Bronx, Kings, Queens and  Richmond  and  judges  of  the
 court of general sessions of the county of New York authorized by law on
 the  thirty-first day of August next after the approval and ratification
 of this amendment by the people, all of whom shall be  justices  of  the
 supreme  court  for  the  remainder  of their terms. The legislature may
 increase the] IN EACH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, IT SHALL CONSIST OF SUCH number
 of justices [of the supreme court in any judicial district]  AS  MAY  BE
 AUTHORIZED  BY LAW, except that [the number in any district shall not be
 increased to exceed one justice for fifty  thousand,  or  fraction  over
 thirty  thousand, of the population thereof as shown by the last federal
 census or state enumeration. The legislature may decrease the number  of
 justices of the supreme court in any judicial district, except that]:
   (1)  the  number  in  any JUDICIAL district shall not be less than the
 number of justices of the supreme court authorized by law IN SUCH  JUDI-
 CIAL  DISTRICT  on [the effective date of this article] DECEMBER THIRTY-
 FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR; AND
   (2) THERE SHALL BE AT LEAST ONE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT  IN  EACH
 COUNTY OUTSIDE THE CITY OF NEW YORK CHOSEN BY THE ELECTORS THEREOF.
   §  5.  Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 7 of article 6 of
 the constitution be amended to read as follows:
   § 7. a. The supreme court AND ANY DIVISION THEREOF shall have  general
 original  jurisdiction  in law and equity, INCLUDING THE JURISDICTION OF
 THE FORMER COURT OF CLAIMS FOLLOWING ITS ABOLITION PURSUANT  TO  SECTION
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 TWENTY-SEVEN  OF  THIS  ARTICLE  SUBJECT,  HOWEVER, TO SUCH POWER AS THE
 LEGISLATURE HAD TO CONFER JURISDICTION UPON THE COURT OF CLAIMS,  OR  TO
 WITHDRAW  JURISDICTION  THEREFROM, ON THE DAY IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING SUCH
 ABOLITION; THE APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE FORMER COUNTY COURT FOLLOW-
 ING ITS ABOLITION PURSUANT TO SUCH SECTION TWENTY-SEVEN, EXCEPT THAT THE
 LEGISLATURE  MAY PROVIDE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION EIGHT OF THIS ARTI-
 CLE, THAT ONE OR MORE APPELLATE TERMS SHALL EXERCISE ANY OR ALL OF  SUCH
 APPELLATE  JURISDICTION;  and [the] SUCH OTHER appellate jurisdiction AS
 herein provided. [In the city of New York, it] EXCEPT AS THE LEGISLATURE
 MAY OTHERWISE PROVIDE PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH FOUR  OF  SUBDIVISION  A  OF
 SECTION  TEN  OF  THIS  ARTICLE,  THE SUPREME COURT shall have exclusive
 jurisdiction over crimes prosecuted by indictment[,  provided,  however,
 that the legislature may grant to the city-wide court of criminal juris-
 diction  of  the  city of New York jurisdiction over misdemeanors prose-
 cuted by indictment and to the family court in  the  city  of  New  York
 jurisdiction  over  crimes  and offenses by or against minors or between
 spouses or between parent and child or between members of the same fami-
 ly or household].
   b. If  the  legislature  shall  create  new  classes  of  actions  and
 proceedings, the supreme court shall have jurisdiction over such classes
 of actions and proceedings, but the legislature may provide that another
 court  or other courts shall also have jurisdiction and that actions and
 proceedings of such classes may be originated in  such  other  court  or
 courts.
   C.  EXCEPT  AS  THE  CHIEF  ADMINISTRATOR  OF THE COURTS MAY OTHERWISE
 PROVIDE, THE SUPREME COURT SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING DIVISIONS  EFFECTIVE
 JANUARY  FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-EIGHT OR SUCH OTHER DATE AS SHALL BE
 PROVIDED HEREIN:
   (1) A FAMILY DIVISION, FOR ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS FOR  MARITAL  SEPA-
 RATION,  DIVORCE, ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE AND DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE, AND
 ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION  OF  THE  FORMER  FAMILY
 COURT ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN;
   (2)  A PROBATE DIVISION, FOR ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS WITHIN THE JURIS-
 DICTION OF THE FORMER SURROGATE'S COURT ON  DECEMBER  THIRTY-FIRST,  TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN;
   (3) A CRIMINAL DIVISION, FOR CRIMES AND OTHER VIOLATIONS OF LAW;
   (4)  EFFECTIVE OCTOBER FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE, A STATE CLAIMS
 DIVISION, FOR ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS WITHIN  THE  JURISDICTION  OF  THE
 FORMER COURT OF CLAIMS ON SEPTEMBER THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE;
   (5) A COMMERCIAL DIVISION, FOR CIVIL ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS AS MAY BE
 PROVIDED BY LAW OR PRESCRIBED BY THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR; AND
   (6)  A  GENERAL DIVISION, FOR ALL OTHER ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS IN THE
 SUPREME COURT.
   TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, JUSTICES ASSIGNED  TO  ANY  SUCH  DIVISIONS
 SHALL BE EXPERIENCED IN THE BUSINESS COMING BEFORE THEM.
   NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION OF THIS SUBDIVISION, EACH OF THE DIVI-
 SIONS SPECIFIED HEREIN MAY EXERCISE ALL OF THE SUPREME COURT'S JURISDIC-
 TION UNDER THIS SECTION.
   § 6. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That subdivisions  d  and  e  of
 section  8  of  article  6  of  the  constitution  be amended to read as
 follows:
   d. If so directed by the appellate division of the  supreme  court  IN
 THE  FIRST OR SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT establishing an appellate term,
 [an] SUCH appellate term shall have jurisdiction to hear  and  determine
 appeals  [now  or hereafter authorized by law to be taken to the supreme
 court or to the appellate division other than appeals from  the  supreme
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 court,  a  surrogate's  court,  the  family court or appeals in criminal
 cases prosecuted by indictment or by information as provided in  section
 six  of  article  one]  FROM THE MUNICIPAL COURT IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
 SITTING IN SUCH JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.
   e.  As  may be provided by law, an appellate term shall have jurisdic-
 tion to hear and determine appeals from [the district] A MUNICIPAL court
 OUTSIDE THE CITY OF NEW YORK or FROM a  town[,]  OR  village  [or  city]
 court [outside the city of New York].
   § 7. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
 14,  16,  34,  35, 36, 36-a, 36-c, 37 and subdivision j of section 22 of
 article 6 of the constitution be REPEALED.
   § 8. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That sections 15,  17,  18,  19,
 20,  21,  22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 of article 6
 of the constitution be renumbered sections 9, 11, 12, 13,  14,  15,  16,
 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 28.
   §  9.  Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 9 of article 6 of
 the constitution, as renumbered by section eight of this resolution,  be
 amended to read as follows:
   §  9.  [a.]  The [legislature shall by law establish a single court of
 city-wide civil jurisdiction and a single court  of  city-wide  criminal
 jurisdiction  in  and  for the city of New York and the legislature may,
 upon the request of the mayor and the local legislative body of the city
 of New York, merge the two courts into one city-wide court of both civil
 and criminal jurisdiction. The said city-wide  courts]  MUNICIPAL  COURT
 SYSTEM IS HEREBY ESTABLISHED EFFECTIVE JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND THIR-
 TY. UNDER SUCH SYSTEM:
   A.  THERE SHALL BE A MUNICIPAL COURT IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. IT shall
 consist of such number of judges as may be [provided] AUTHORIZED by law.
 The judges of the MUNICIPAL court [of city-wide civil  jurisdiction]  IN
 THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK  shall be residents of such city and, EXCEPT AS
 OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN THIS ARTICLE, shall be [chosen]  SELECTED  IN  THE
 MANNER  PROVIDED  BY  LAW for terms of ten years [by the electors of the
 counties included within the city of New York from districts within such
 counties established by law. The judges of the court of city-wide crimi-
 nal jurisdiction shall be residents of such city and shall be  appointed
 for terms of ten years by the mayor of the city of New York.
   b.  The  court of city-wide civil jurisdiction of the city of New York
 shall have jurisdiction  over  the  following  classes  of  actions  and
 proceedings  which  shall  be  originated  in  such  court in the manner
 provided by law: actions and proceedings  for  the  recovery  of  money,
 actions  and  proceedings  for  the recovery of chattels and actions and
 proceedings for the foreclosure of mechanics liens and liens on personal
 property where the amount sought to be recovered or  the  value  of  the
 property  does  not  exceed  twenty-five  thousand  dollars exclusive of
 interest and costs, or such smaller amount as may be fixed by law;  over
 summary proceedings to recover possession of real property and to remove
 tenants therefrom and over such other actions and proceedings, not with-
 in  the  exclusive jurisdiction of the supreme court, as may be provided
 by law. The court of city-wide civil jurisdiction shall further exercise
 such equity jurisdiction as may be provided by law and its  jurisdiction
 to  enter  judgment  upon  a counterclaim for the recovery of money only
 shall be unlimited.
   c. The court of city-wide criminal jurisdiction of  the  city  of  New
 York  shall  have  jurisdiction over crimes and other violations of law,
 other than those prosecuted by indictment, provided, however,  that  the
 legislature may grant to said court jurisdiction over misdemeanors pros-
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 ecuted  by  indictment; and over such other actions and proceedings, not
 within the exclusive jurisdiction  of  the  supreme  court,  as  may  be
 provided by law.
   d.  The provisions of this section shall in no way limit or impair the
 jurisdiction of the supreme court as set forth in section seven of  this
 article].  WHERE  A  TERM OF OFFICE PRESCRIBED HEREUNDER IS ELECTIVE, IT
 SHALL BE FROM  AND  INCLUDING  THE  FIRST  DAY  OF  JANUARY  NEXT  AFTER
 ELECTION.
   B.    THERE  SHALL BE MUNICIPAL COURTS OUTSIDE THE CITY OF NEW YORK AS
 FOLLOWS:
   (1) A MUNICIPAL COURT SHALL BE ESTABLISHED IN EACH OF  THE  FOLLOWING:
 (I)  THE AREA OF NASSAU COUNTY, (II) THE AREA OF SUFFOLK COUNTY IN WHICH
 A DISTRICT COURT WAS ESTABLISHED ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO  THOUSAND
 TWENTY-NINE, AND (III) THE AREA OF ANY COUNTY OR PORTION THEREOF OUTSIDE
 THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK  WHERE SUCH A COURT SHALL BE ESTABLISHED BY THE
 LEGISLATURE PURSUANT TO THE PROCEDURES OF FORMER SECTION SIXTEEN OF THIS
 ARTICLE OF THE CONSTITUTION IN FORCE ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOU-
 SAND TWENTY-ONE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A DISTRICT COURT.
   (2) UNLESS THE LEGISLATURE SHALL OTHERWISE PROVIDE, A MUNICIPAL  COURT
 SHALL  BE  ESTABLISHED FOR THE AREA OF EACH CITY OUTSIDE THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK.
   THE JUDGES OF A MUNICIPAL COURT OUTSIDE THE CITY OF NEW YORK SHALL  BE
 RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY OR PORTION THEREOF FOR WHICH SUCH COURT HAS BEEN
 ESTABLISHED  AND  SHALL  BE  CHOSEN  BY  THE  ELECTORS OF SUCH COUNTY OR
 PORTION THEREOF FOR TERMS OF SIX YEARS; EXCEPT THAT JUDGES OF A  MUNICI-
 PAL  COURT  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  PARAGRAPH TWO OF THIS SUBDIVISION
 SHALL BE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY  FOR  WHICH  SUCH  COURT  IS  ESTABLISHED
 UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW, AND SHALL BE CHOSEN IN SUCH MANNER AND
 FOR  SUCH  TERMS  AS  SHALL BE PROVIDED BY LAW.   WHERE A TERM OF OFFICE
 PRESCRIBED HEREUNDER IS ELECTIVE, IT SHALL BE  FROM  AND  INCLUDING  THE
 FIRST DAY OF JANUARY NEXT AFTER ELECTION.
   C.   THE LEGISLATURE MAY CREATE DISTRICTS OF A MUNICIPAL COURT OUTSIDE
 THE CITY OF NEW YORK ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH ONE  OF  SUBDIVI-
 SION B OF THIS SECTION, WHICH SHALL CONSIST OF AN ENTIRE COUNTY OR OF AN
 AREA  LESS  THAN  A  COUNTY;  AND MAY DISCONTINUE ANY DISTRICT OF SUCH A
 MUNICIPAL COURT.  THE JUDGES OF A MUNICIPAL COURT  FOR  WHICH  DISTRICTS
 HAVE BEEN CREATED HEREUNDER SHALL BE APPORTIONED AMONG SUCH DISTRICTS AS
 MAY  BE  PROVIDED  BY  LAW AND, TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, IN ACCORDANCE
 WITH THE POPULATION AND THE VOLUME OF JUDICIAL BUSINESS.
   D.  EACH MUNICIPAL COURT OUTSIDE THE CITY OF NEW YORK SHALL CONSIST OF
 SUCH NUMBER OF JUDGES AS MAY BE AUTHORIZED BY LAW, PROVIDED THERE  SHALL
 BE  AT  LEAST ONE JUDGE FOR EACH MUNICIPAL COURT AND, FOR EACH MUNICIPAL
 COURT IN WHICH DISTRICTS HAVE BEEN CREATED HEREUNDER, AT LEAST ONE JUDGE
 FOR EACH OF SUCH DISTRICTS.
   § 10. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That article 6 of the constitu-
 tion be amended by adding a new section 10 to read as follows:
   § 10. A. ONCE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION NINE  OF  THIS  ARTICLE,
 THE  MUNICIPAL  COURTS SHALL ENJOY UNIFORM JURISDICTION STATEWIDE.  SUCH
 JURISDICTION  SHALL  INCLUDE  THE  FOLLOWING  CLASSES  OF  ACTIONS   AND
 PROCEEDINGS,  WHICH  SHALL  BE  ORIGINATED  IN SUCH COURTS IN THE MANNER
 PROVIDED BY LAW:
   (1) ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS FOR THE RECOVERY  OF  MONEY,  ACTIONS  AND
 PROCEEDINGS  FOR  THE  RECOVERY OF CHATTELS, AND ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
 FOR THE FORECLOSURE OF MECHANICS LIENS AND LIENS  ON  PERSONAL  PROPERTY
 WHERE  THE  AMOUNT  SOUGHT  TO BE RECOVERED OR THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY
 DOES NOT EXCEED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS EXCLUSIVE OF INTEREST AND  COSTS,
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 OR  SUCH  GREATER AMOUNT AS MAY BE FIXED BY LAW; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
 THE JURISDICTION OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT TO ENTER JUDGMENT UPON  A  COUN-
 TERCLAIM FOR THE RECOVERY OF MONEY ONLY SHALL BE UNLIMITED;
   (2)  ACTIONS  AND PROCEEDINGS IN LAW AND EQUITY INVOLVING THE ENFORCE-
 MENT OF STATE AND LOCAL LAWS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT  AND  MAINTENANCE  OF
 HOUSING  STANDARDS,  SUMMARY  PROCEEDINGS  TO RECOVER POSSESSION OF REAL
 PROPERTY AND TO REMOVE TENANTS THEREFROM, AND  SUCH  OTHER  ACTIONS  AND
 PROCEEDINGS, NOT WITHIN THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE SUPREME COURT,
 AS MAY BE PROVIDED BY LAW;
   (3) SUCH EQUITY JURISDICTION AS MAY BE PROVIDED BY LAW;
   (4)  JURISDICTION  OVER  CRIMES AND OTHER VIOLATIONS OF LAW OTHER THAN
 THOSE PROSECUTED BY INDICTMENT; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE  LEGISLATURE
 MAY  GRANT TO THE MUNICIPAL COURTS JURISDICTION OVER MISDEMEANORS PROSE-
 CUTED  BY  INDICTMENT  AND  OVER  SUCH  OTHER   CRIMINAL   ACTIONS   AND
 PROCEEDINGS, NOT WITHIN THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE SUPREME COURT,
 AS MAY BE PROVIDED BY LAW; AND
   (5) ANY OTHER JURISDICTION EXERCISED BY THE FORMER CITY-WIDE COURTS OF
 CIVIL  AND  CRIMINAL  JURISDICTION  FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK ON DECEMBER
 THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-NINE  NOT  OTHERWISE  PROVIDED  HEREIN
 AND, WHERE IT IS PROVIDED BY LAW AFTER SUCH DATE, SUCH FURTHER JURISDIC-
 TION  AS  THOSE COURTS MIGHT HAVE EXERCISED ON SUCH DATE HAD SUCH JURIS-
 DICTION THEN BEEN PROVIDED BY LAW.
   B. THE MUNICIPAL COURT IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND SUCH OTHER  MUNICI-
 PAL COURTS OUTSIDE SUCH CITY AS THE LEGISLATURE MAY PROVIDE SHALL HAVE A
 HOUSING DIVISION, FOR ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS SPECIFIED IN PARAGRAPH TWO
 OF  SUBDIVISION  A  OF  THIS  SECTION, AND SUCH FURTHER DIVISIONS AS THE
 CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR OF THE COURTS MAY PROVIDE.
   C. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL IN NO WAY LIMIT OR IMPAIR  THE
 JURISDICTION  OF THE SUPREME COURT AS SET FORTH IN SECTION SEVEN OF THIS
 ARTICLE.
   § 11. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 11 of article 6 of
 the constitution, as renumbered by section eight of this resolution,  be
 amended to read as follows:
   § 11. a. Courts for towns[,] AND villages [and cities outside the city
 of New York] are continued and shall have the jurisdiction prescribed by
 the  legislature but not in any respect greater than the jurisdiction of
 [the district] A MUNICIPAL court as provided in section [sixteen] TEN of
 this article.
   b. The legislature may regulate such courts[, establish uniform juris-
 diction, practice and procedure for city courts outside the city of  New
 York]  and may discontinue any village [or city] court [outside the city
 of New York existing on the effective date of this article]. The  legis-
 lature may discontinue any town court [existing on the effective date of
 this  article]  only  with the approval of a majority of the total votes
 cast at a general election on the question of a proposed  discontinuance
 of the court in each such town affected thereby.
   c.  [The  legislature  may  abolish  the legislative functions on town
 boards of justices of the peace and  provide  that  town  councilmen  be
 elected in their stead.
   d.]  The  number  of [the judges] JUSTICES of each of such town[,] AND
 village [and city] courts and the  classification  and  duties  of  [the
 judges] SUCH JUSTICES shall be prescribed by the legislature. The terms,
 method  of  selection  and  method of filling vacancies for the [judges]
 JUSTICES of such courts  shall  be  prescribed  by  the  legislature[,];
 provided,  however,  that the justices of town courts shall be chosen by
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 the electors of the town for terms of four years from and including  the
 first day of January next after their election.
   § 12. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 13 of article 6 of
 the  constitution, as renumbered by section eight of this resolution, be
 amended to read as follows:
   § 13. a. The supreme court may  transfer  any  action  or  proceeding,
 except  one  over  which it shall have exclusive jurisdiction which does
 not depend upon the monetary amount sought, to any  other  court  having
 jurisdiction  of  the  subject  matter  within  the  judicial department
 provided that such other court has  jurisdiction  over  the  classes  of
 persons  named  as parties. As may be provided by law, the supreme court
 may transfer to itself any action or proceeding originated or pending in
 another court within the judicial department [other than  the  court  of
 claims]  upon  a  finding that such a transfer will promote the adminis-
 tration of justice.
   b. The [county court shall transfer to the  supreme  court  or  surro-
 gate's court or family court any action or proceeding which has not been
 transferred  to it from the supreme court or surrogate's court or family
 court and over which the county court has no  jurisdiction.  The  county
 court may transfer any action or proceeding, except a criminal action or
 proceeding  involving  a felony prosecuted by indictment or an action or
 proceeding required by this article to be dealt with in the  surrogate's
 court  or  family  court,  to  any  court, other than the supreme court,
 having jurisdiction of the subject matter  within  the  county  provided
 that such other court has jurisdiction over the classes of persons named
 as parties.
   c.  As  may  be provided by law, the supreme court or the county court
 may transfer to the county court any action or proceeding originated  or
 pending  in  the district court or a town, village or city court outside
 the city of New York upon a finding that such a  transfer  will  promote
 the administration of justice.
   d.  The  surrogate's  court shall transfer to the supreme court or the
 county court or the family court or the courts for the city of New  York
 established  pursuant  to  section fifteen of this article any action or
 proceeding which has not been transferred to it from any of said  courts
 and over which the surrogate's court has no jurisdiction.
   e.  The family court shall transfer to the supreme court or the surro-
 gate's court or the county court or the courts for the city of New  York
 established  pursuant  to  section fifteen of this article any action or
 proceeding which has not been transferred to it from any of said  courts
 and over which the family court has no jurisdiction.
   f. The courts for the city of New York established pursuant to section
 fifteen  of  this article] MUNICIPAL COURT shall transfer to the supreme
 court [or the surrogate's court or  the  family  court]  any  action  or
 proceeding which has not been transferred to [them] IT from [any of said
 courts]  THE  SUPREME COURT and over which the [said courts for the city
 of New York have] MUNICIPAL COURT HAS no jurisdiction.
   [g.] C. As may be provided by law, the supreme  court  shall  transfer
 any  action  or proceeding to any other court having jurisdiction of the
 subject matter in any other judicial district or  county  provided  that
 such  other  court has jurisdiction over the classes of persons named as
 parties.
   [h.] D. As may be provided by law, the [county] MUNICIPAL court,  [the
 surrogate's  court,  the family court and the courts for] IN the city of
 New York [established pursuant  to  section  fifteen  of  this  article]
 SITTING  OUTSIDE  THE FIRST JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT, may transfer any action
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 or proceeding, other than one which has previously been  transferred  to
 it,  to  any  other  court IN THE SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT, except the
 supreme court, having jurisdiction of the subject matter [in  any  other
 judicial  district  or county] provided that such other court has juris-
 diction over the classes of persons named as parties.
   [i.] E. As may be provided by law, [the district]  A  MUNICIPAL  court
 OUTSIDE  THE  CITY  OF  NEW YORK or a town[,] OR village [or city] court
 [outside the city of New York] may transfer any  action  or  proceeding,
 other than one which has previously been transferred to it, to any OTHER
 court, [other than] EXCEPT the [county court or the surrogate's court or
 the  family  court  or  the]  supreme  court, having jurisdiction of the
 subject matter in the same or an adjoining  county  provided  that  such
 other  court  has  jurisdiction  over  the  classes  of persons named as
 parties.
   [j.] F. Each court shall exercise  jurisdiction  over  any  action  or
 proceeding transferred to it pursuant to this section.
   [k.]  G.  The  legislature may provide that the verdict or judgment in
 actions and proceedings so transferred shall not be subject to the limi-
 tation of monetary jurisdiction of the court to which  the  actions  and
 proceedings are transferred if that limitation be lower than that of the
 court in which the actions and proceedings were originated.
   § 13. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 14 of article 6 of
 the  constitution, as renumbered by section eight of this resolution, be
 amended to read as follows:
   § 14. a. No person[, other than one  who  holds  such  office  at  the
 effective  date  of this article,] may assume the office of judge of the
 court of appeals[,] OR justice of the supreme court[, or  judge  of  the
 court  of  claims]  unless  [he or she] SUCH PERSON has been admitted to
 practice law in this state at least ten years. No  person[,  other  than
 one  who  holds  such office at the effective date of this article,] may
 assume the office of judge of  [the  county  court,  surrogate's  court,
 family  court,  a court for the city of New York established pursuant to
 section fifteen of this article, district] A MUNICIPAL  court  [or  city
 court  outside  the city of New York] unless [he or she] SUCH PERSON has
 been admitted to practice law in this state at least five years or  such
 greater number of years as the legislature may determine.
   b.  A  judge  of  the  court of appeals, justice of the supreme court,
 [judge of the court of claims, judge of a county  court,  judge  of  the
 surrogate's  court,  judge  of the family court] or judge of a MUNICIPAL
 court [for the city of New York established pursuant to section  fifteen
 of  this article who is elected or appointed after the effective date of
 this article may] SHALL not:
   (1) hold any other public office or trust except an office in relation
 to the administration of the courts, member of a constitutional  conven-
 tion  or member of the armed forces of the United States or of the state
 of New York in which latter event the legislature may enact such  legis-
 lation  as  it  deems  appropriate  to  provide for a temporary judge or
 justice to serve during the period of  the  absence  of  such  judge  or
 justice in the armed forces;
   (2)  be  eligible  to  be a candidate for any public office other than
 judicial office or member of a constitutional convention, unless [he  or
 she]  SUCH JUDGE OR JUSTICE resigns from judicial office; in the event a
 judge or justice does not so resign from judicial office within ten days
 after [his or her acceptance of] ACCEPTING the nomination of such  other
 office,  [his  or  her]  SUCH JUDGE'S OR JUSTICE'S judicial office shall
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 become vacant and the vacancy shall be filled in the manner provided  in
 this article;
   (3) hold any office or assume the duties or exercise the powers of any
 office  of any political organization or be a member of any governing or
 executive agency thereof;
   (4) engage in the practice of law, act as an  arbitrator,  referee  or
 compensated  mediator in any action or proceeding or matter or engage in
 the conduct of any other profession or business  which  interferes  with
 the  performance  of  [his  or  her]  SUCH JUDGE'S OR JUSTICE'S judicial
 duties; EXCEPT THAT, IF THE LEGISLATURE SO PROVIDES, A JUDGE OF A MUNIC-
 IPAL COURT OUTSIDE THE CITY OF NEW YORK ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  PARA-
 GRAPH TWO OF SUBDIVISION B OF SECTION NINE OF THIS ARTICLE MAY ENGAGE IN
 THE PRACTICE OF LAW.
   Judges  and justices of the courts specified in this subdivision shall
 also be subject to such rules of conduct as may be  promulgated  by  the
 chief  administrator  of  the  courts  with the approval of the court of
 appeals.
   c. Qualifications for and restrictions upon JUSTICES OF the [judges of
 district,] town[,] AND village [or city] courts [outside the city of New
 York, other than such qualifications and restrictions  specifically  set
 forth  in  subdivision  a  of  this section,] shall be prescribed by the
 legislature[,]; provided, however, that the legislature shall require  a
 course  of  training  and education to be completed by SUCH justices [of
 town and village courts selected after the effective date of this  arti-
 cle]  who have not been admitted to practice law in this state. [Judges]
 JUSTICES of such courts shall also be subject to such rules  of  conduct
 not  inconsistent  with laws as may be promulgated by the chief adminis-
 trator of the courts with the approval of the court of appeals.
   § 14. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 15 of article 6 of
 the constitution, as renumbered by section eight of this resolution,  be
 amended to read as follows:
   §  15.  a. When a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by expiration of
 term, in the office of AN ELECTIVE justice of  the  supreme  court[,  of
 judge of the county court, of judge of the surrogate's court or judge of
 the family court outside the city of New York], it shall be filled for a
 full  term  at the next general election held not less than three months
 after such vacancy occurs and, until the vacancy shall be so filled, the
 governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate, if the senate
 shall be in session, or, if the senate not be in session,  the  governor
 may  fill  such  vacancy by [an] appointment [which]; EXCEPT THAT, WHERE
 THE VACANCY IS IN THE OFFICE OF A JUSTICE WHO WAS A JUDGE OF  THE  CITY-
 WIDE  COURT  OF  CIVIL JURISDICTION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK WHO BECAME A
 JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT PURSUANT TO SUBPARAGRAPH C OF PARAGRAPH ONE
 OF SUBDIVISION B OF  SECTION  TWENTY-SEVEN  OF  THIS  ARTICLE,  OR  SUCH
 JUDGE'S  OR  JUSTICE'S SUCCESSOR IN OFFICE, THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK SHALL FILL SUCH VACANCY BY APPOINTMENT.  EACH APPOINTMENT  PURSUANT
 TO  THIS  SUBDIVISION shall continue until and including the last day of
 December next after the election at which the vacancy shall be filled.
   b. When a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by expiration  of  term,
 in the office of [judge of the court of claims] AN APPOINTIVE JUSTICE OF
 THE SUPREME COURT, it shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same
 manner as an original appointment.
   c.  When  a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by expiration of term,
 in the office of judge elected to the [city-wide]  MUNICIPAL  court  [of
 civil jurisdiction of] IN the city of New York, it shall be filled for a
 full  term  at the next general election held not less than three months
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 after such vacancy occurs and, until the vacancy shall be so filled, the
 mayor of the city of New York may fill such vacancy  by  an  appointment
 which  shall  continue until and including the last day of December next
 after  the election at which the vacancy shall be filled. When a vacancy
 shall occur, otherwise than by expiration of term on  the  last  day  of
 December  of  any  year, in the office of judge appointed to the [family
 court within the city of New York or the city-wide] MUNICIPAL court  [of
 criminal jurisdiction of] IN the city of New York, the mayor of the city
 of  New York shall fill such vacancy by an appointment for the unexpired
 term; EXCEPT THAT, WHERE THE VACANCY IS IN THE OFFICE OF A JUDGE WHO WAS
 A HOUSING JUDGE OF THE CITY-WIDE COURT OF CIVIL JURISDICTION OF THE CITY
 OF NEW YORK WHO BECAME A  JUDGE  OF  THE  MUNICIPAL  COURT  PURSUANT  TO
 SUBPARAGRAPH C OF PARAGRAPH ONE OF SUBDIVISION C OF SECTION TWENTY-SEVEN
 OF  THIS  ARTICLE,  OR SUCH JUDGE'S SUCCESSOR IN OFFICE, THE MAYOR SHALL
 FILL SUCH VACANCY BY APPOINTMENT FOR THE UNEXPIRED TERM FROM A  LIST  OF
 PERSONS FOUND QUALIFIED BY AN ADVISORY COUNCIL ESTABLISHED BY LAW.
   d.  When  a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by expiration of term,
 in the office of judge of [the district] A MUNICIPAL court  OUTSIDE  THE
 CITY  OF NEW YORK ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH ONE OF SUBDIVISION B
 OF SECTION NINE OF THIS ARTICLE, it shall be filled for a full  term  at
 the  next  general  election  held not less than three months after such
 vacancy occurs and, until the vacancy shall be so filled, the  board  of
 supervisors  or the supervisor or supervisors of the [affected district]
 AREA FOR WHICH  THE  COURT  WAS  ESTABLISHED  if  such  [district]  AREA
 consists of a portion of a county or, in counties with an elected county
 executive officer, such county executive officer may, subject to confir-
 mation  by  the board of supervisors or the supervisor or supervisors of
 such [district] AREA, fill such vacancy by an  appointment  which  shall
 continue  until  and  including  the last day of December next after the
 election at which the vacancy shall be filled.
   E. WHEN A VACANCY SHALL OCCUR, OTHERWISE THAN BY EXPIRATION  OF  TERM,
 IN THE OFFICE OF JUDGE OF A MUNICIPAL COURT OUTSIDE THE CITY OF NEW YORK
 ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO PARAGRAPH TWO OF SUBDIVISION B OF SECTION NINE
 OF THIS ARTICLE, IT SHALL BE FILLED IN THE MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW.
   § 15. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That subdivisions a,  b,  e,  f
 and  g  of section 16 of article 6 of the constitution, as renumbered by
 section eight of this resolution, be amended to read as follows:
   a. There shall be a commission on judicial conduct. The commission  on
 judicial   conduct   shall   receive,  initiate,  investigate  and  hear
 complaints with respect  to  the  conduct,  qualifications,  fitness  to
 perform or performance of official duties of any judge or justice of the
 unified  court system, in the manner provided by law; and, in accordance
 with subdivision d of this  section,  may  determine  that  a  judge  or
 justice  be  admonished,  censured  or  removed  from  office for cause,
 including, but not limited to, misconduct in office, persistent  failure
 to perform [his or her] THE duties OF OFFICE, habitual intemperance, and
 conduct,  on  or  off  the  bench,  prejudicial to the administration of
 justice, or that a judge or justice be retired for  mental  or  physical
 disability preventing the proper performance of [his or her] THE JUDGE'S
 OR  JUSTICE'S  judicial  duties. The commission shall transmit [an*] ANY
 such determination to the chief judge of the court of appeals who  shall
 cause  written  notice of such determination to be given to the judge or
 justice involved. Such judge or justice may either  accept  the  commis-
 sion's  determination or make written request to the chief judge, within
 thirty days after receipt of such notice, for a review of such  determi-
 nation by the court of appeals.
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   b.  (1)  The  commission  on  judicial conduct shall consist of eleven
 members, of whom four shall be appointed by the  governor,  one  by  the
 temporary  president  of  the  senate, one by the minority leader of the
 senate, one by the speaker of the assembly, one by the  minority  leader
 of the assembly and three by the chief judge of the court of appeals. Of
 the  members  appointed  by the governor one person shall be a member of
 the bar of the state but not a  judge  or  justice,  two  shall  not  be
 members  of the bar, justices or judges or retired justices or judges of
 the unified court system, and one shall be a judge  or  justice  of  the
 unified  court  system.  Of the members appointed by the chief judge one
 person shall be a justice of the appellate division of the supreme court
 and two shall be judges or justices of a court or courts other than  the
 court  of  appeals  or  appellate  divisions.  None of the persons to be
 appointed by the legislative leaders shall  be  justices  or  judges  or
 retired justices or judges.
   (2)  [The  persons  first appointed by the governor shall have respec-
 tively one, two, three, and four-year terms as the governor shall desig-
 nate.  The persons first appointed by the chief judge of  the  court  of
 appeals  shall  have respectively two, three, and four-year terms as the
 governor shall designate. The person first appointed  by  the  temporary
 president  of  the  senate  shall have a one-year term. The person first
 appointed by the minority leader of the senate  shall  have  a  two-year
 term.  The  person  first appointed by the speaker of the assembly shall
 have a four-year term. The person first appointed by the minority leader
 of the assembly shall have  a  three-year  term.]  Each  member  of  the
 commission  shall  be  appointed  [thereafter] for a term of four years.
 Commission membership of a judge or justice appointed by the governor or
 the chief judge shall terminate if such member ceases to hold the  judi-
 cial position which qualified [him or her] SUCH MEMBER for such appoint-
 ment.  Membership  shall  also  terminate if a member attains a position
 which would have rendered  [him  or  her]  SUCH  MEMBER  ineligible  for
 appointment at the time of appointment. A vacancy shall be filled by the
 appointing officer for the remainder of the term.
   e. The court of appeals may suspend a judge or justice from exercising
 the powers of [his or her] office while there is pending a determination
 by  the  commission on judicial conduct for [his or her] SUCH JUDGE'S OR
 JUSTICE'S removal or retirement,  or  while  the  judge  or  justice  is
 charged  in  this state with a felony by an indictment or an information
 filed pursuant to section six  of  article  one.  The  suspension  shall
 continue upon conviction and, if the conviction becomes final, the judge
 or  justice shall be removed from office. The suspension shall be termi-
 nated upon reversal of the conviction and dismissal  of  the  accusatory
 instrument.  Nothing in this subdivision shall prevent the commission on
 judicial conduct from determining that a judge or justice be admonished,
 censured, removed, or retired pursuant to subdivision a of this section.
   f. Upon the recommendation of the commission on judicial conduct or on
 its own motion, the court of appeals may suspend a judge or justice from
 office when [he or she] SUCH JUDGE OR JUSTICE is charged  with  a  crime
 punishable  as a felony under the laws of this state, or any other crime
 which involves moral  turpitude.  The  suspension  shall  continue  upon
 conviction  and,  if  the conviction becomes final, the judge or justice
 shall be removed from office. The suspension shall  be  terminated  upon
 reversal  of  the conviction and dismissal of the accusatory instrument.
 Nothing in this subdivision shall prevent  the  commission  on  judicial
 conduct  from  determining  that  a  judge  or  justice  be  admonished,
 censured, removed, or retired pursuant to subdivision a of this section.
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   g. A judge or justice who is suspended from office  by  the  court  of
 appeals  shall  receive  [his or her] SUCH JUDGE'S OR JUSTICE'S judicial
 salary during such period of suspension, unless the court directs other-
 wise. If the court has so directed and  such  suspension  is  thereafter
 terminated, the court may direct that the judge or justice shall be paid
 [his or her] ANY salary [for] NOT RECEIVED DURING such period of suspen-
 sion.
   § 16. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 17 of article 6 of
 the  constitution, as renumbered by section eight of this resolution, be
 amended to read as follows:
   § 17. a. Judges of the court of appeals and justices  of  the  supreme
 court  may  be  removed  by  concurrent resolution of both houses of the
 legislature, if two-thirds of all the  members  elected  to  each  house
 concur therein.
   b.  Judges  of [the court of claims, the county court, the surrogate's
 court, the family court, the courts for the city of New York established
 pursuant to section fifteen of this article,] the  [district]  MUNICIPAL
 court  and  such  other  courts  as the legislature may determine may be
 removed by the senate, on the recommendation of the  governor,  if  two-
 thirds of all the members elected to the senate concur therein.
   c.  No  judge  or  justice  shall be removed by virtue of this section
 except for cause, which shall be entered on the journals, nor unless [he
 or she] SUCH JUDGE OR JUSTICE shall have been served with a statement of
 the cause alleged, and shall have had an opportunity to be heard. On the
 question of removal, the yeas and nays shall be entered on the journal.
   § 17. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 18 of article 6 of
 the constitution, as renumbered by section eight of this resolution,  be
 amended to read as follows:
   §  18. The assembly shall have the power of impeachment by a vote of a
 majority of all the members elected thereto. The court for the trial  of
 impeachments  shall  be  composed  of  the  president of the senate, the
 senators, or the major part of them, and the  judges  of  the  court  of
 appeals,  or  the  major  part  of  them. On the trial of an impeachment
 against the governor or lieutenant-governor, neither the lieutenant-gov-
 ernor nor the temporary president of the senate shall act as a member of
 the court. No judicial officer shall exercise [his or her] THE POWERS OF
 office after articles of impeachment against [him or her]  SUCH  OFFICER
 shall  have been preferred to the senate, until [he or she] SUCH OFFICER
 shall have been acquitted.   Before the trial  of  an  impeachment,  the
 members  of the court shall take an oath or affirmation truly and impar-
 tially to try the impeachment according to the evidence, and  no  person
 shall  be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members
 present. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further  than
 to  removal  from office, or removal from office and disqualification to
 hold and enjoy any public office of honor, trust, or profit  under  this
 state; but the party impeached shall be liable to indictment and punish-
 ment according to law.
   § 18. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 19 of article 6 of
 the  constitution, as renumbered by section eight of this resolution, be
 amended to read as follows:
   § 19. a. The compensation of a  judge  of  the  court  of  appeals,  a
 justice  of  the  supreme  court, a judge of [the] A MUNICIPAL court [of
 claims, a judge of the county court, a judge of the surrogate's court, a
 judge of the family court, a judge of a court for the city of  New  York
 established  pursuant to section fifteen of this article, a judge of the
 district court or of], AND a retired judge or justice  shall  be  estab-
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 lished  by law and shall not be diminished during the term of office for
 which [he or she] SUCH JUDGE OR JUSTICE was elected or  appointed.  [Any
 judge  or  justice  of  a court abolished by section thirty-five of this
 article,  who  pursuant  to that section becomes a judge or justice of a
 court established or continued by this article,  shall  receive  without
 interruption or diminution for the remainder of the term for which he or
 she  was elected or appointed to the abolished court the compensation he
 or she had been receiving  upon  the  effective  date  of  this  article
 together  with  any  additional  compensation  that may be prescribed by
 law.]
   b. Each judge of the court of appeals, justice of the  supreme  court,
 AND  judge  of  [the]  A MUNICIPAL court [of claims, judge of the county
 court, judge of the surrogate's court, judge of the family court,  judge
 of  a  court  for  the  city of New York established pursuant to section
 fifteen of this article and judge of the district court] shall retire on
 the last day of December in the year in which [he or she] SUCH JUDGE  OR
 JUSTICE  reaches the age of seventy. Each such former judge of the court
 of appeals and justice of the supreme court may thereafter  perform  the
 duties  of a justice of the supreme court, with power to hear and deter-
 mine actions and proceedings[,]; provided, however, that: (1)  it  shall
 be  certificated in the manner provided by law that the services of such
 judge or justice are necessary to expedite the business of the court and
 that [he or she] SUCH JUDGE OR JUSTICE is mentally and  physically  able
 and  competent  to perform the full duties of such office, AND (2) TO BE
 ELIGIBLE FOR CERTIFICATION HEREUNDER, A JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEALS OR
 A JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT MUST HAVE SERVED IN AT LEAST ONE OF  SUCH
 OFFICES  PRIOR TO JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE OR THE SERVICE
 OF SUCH JUDGE OR JUSTICE IN ONE OR BOTH OF SUCH OFFICES EQUALS AT  LEAST
 TEN  YEARS  AS OF THE DATE ON WHICH SUCH JUDGE OR JUSTICE IS REQUIRED TO
 RETIRE PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.  Any such certification shall be  valid
 for a term of two years and may be extended as provided by law for addi-
 tional  terms  of  two  years. A retired judge or justice shall serve no
 longer than until the last day of December in the year in which  [he  or
 she]  SUCH  JUDGE  OR  JUSTICE reaches the age of seventy-six. A retired
 judge or justice shall be subject to assignment by the  appellate  divi-
 sion  of  the  supreme  court of the judicial department of [his or her]
 SUCH JUDGE'S OR JUSTICE'S residence.  Any retired justice of the supreme
 court who had been designated to and served as a justice of  any  appel-
 late division immediately preceding [his or her] SUCH JUSTICE'S reaching
 the  age of seventy shall be eligible for designation by the governor as
 a temporary or additional justice of the appellate division. [A  retired
 judge  or  justice  shall  not  be  counted in determining the number of
 justices in a judicial district for purposes of subdivision d of section
 six of this article.
   c. The provisions of this section shall  also  be  applicable  to  any
 judge  or justice who has not reached the age of seventy-six and to whom
 it would otherwise have been applicable but for the fact that he or  she
 reached the age of seventy and retired before the effective date of this
 article.]
   § 19. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 20 of article 6 of
 the  constitution, as renumbered by section eight of this resolution, be
 amended to read as follows:
   § 20. a. A justice of the supreme court  may  perform  the  duties  of
 office  or  hold  court in any county and may be temporarily assigned to
 the supreme court in any judicial district [or to the court of  claims].
 A  justice of the supreme court [in the city of New York] may be [tempo-
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 rarily] assigned to [the family court in the city of New York or to  the
 surrogate's  court  in  any  county  within  the  city  of New York when
 required to dispose of the business] ANY DIVISION OR DIVISIONS  of  such
 court.
   b. [A judge of the court of claims may perform the duties of office or
 hold  court in any county and may be temporarily assigned to the supreme
 court in any judicial district.
   c. A judge of the county court may perform the  duties  of  office  or
 hold  court in any county and may be temporarily assigned to the supreme
 court in the judicial department of his or her residence or to the coun-
 ty court or the family court in any county or to the  surrogate's  court
 in any county outside the city of New York or to a court for the city of
 New York established pursuant to section fifteen of this article.
   d.  A  judge of the surrogate's court in any county within the city of
 New York may perform the duties of office or hold court  in  any  county
 and  may  be  temporarily  assigned to the supreme court in the judicial
 department of his or her residence.
   e. A judge of the surrogate's court in any county outside the city  of
 New  York  may  perform the duties of office or hold court in any county
 and may be temporarily assigned to the supreme  court  in  the  judicial
 department  of his or her residence or to the county court or the family
 court in any county or to a court for the city of New  York  established
 pursuant to section fifteen of this article.
   f.  A  judge  of  the family court may perform the duties of office or
 hold court in any county and may be temporarily assigned to the  supreme
 court in the judicial department of his or her residence or to the coun-
 ty  court  or the family court in any county or to the surrogate's court
 in any county outside of the city of New York or to a court for the city
 of New York established pursuant to section fifteen of this article.
   g. A judge of a court for the city of New York established pursuant to
 section fifteen of this article may perform the duties of office or hold
 court in any county and may be temporarily assigned to the supreme court
 in the judicial department of his or her  residence  or  to  the  county
 court  or  the  family court in any county or to the other court for the
 city of New York established pursuant to section fifteen of  this  arti-
 cle.
   h.]  A  judge  of [the district] A MUNICIPAL court [in any county] may
 perform the duties of office or hold court in any county [and],  may  be
 [temporarily]  assigned to [the county court in the judicial department]
 ANY DISTRICT of [his or her residence or to a] SUCH JUDGE'S  court  [for
 the  city  of  New  York established pursuant to section fifteen of this
 article or], AND MAY BE  TEMPORARILY  ASSIGNED  to  [the  district]  ANY
 MUNICIPAL,  TOWN,  OR VILLAGE court in [any county] THE JUDICIAL DEPART-
 MENT OF SUCH JUDGE'S RESIDENCE. AS MAY BE PROVIDED BY LAW, A JUDGE OF  A
 MUNICIPAL COURT ALSO MAY BE TEMPORARILY ASSIGNED TO THE SUPREME COURT IN
 THE  JUDICIAL  DEPARTMENT  OF SUCH JUDGE'S RESIDENCE.  HOUSING JUDGES OF
 THE CITY-WIDE COURT OF CIVIL JURISDICTION ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO FORMER
 SECTION FIFTEEN OF THIS ARTICLE OF THE CONSTITUTION IN FORCE ON DECEMBER
 THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE, WHO BECAME JUDGES OF THE  MUNICI-
 PAL  COURT  IN  THE CITY OF NEW YORK PURSUANT TO SUBPARAGRAPH C OF PARA-
 GRAPH ONE OF SUBDIVISION C OF SECTION TWENTY-SEVEN OF THIS  ARTICLE  AND
 THEIR  SUCCESSORS IN OFFICE SHALL BE ASSIGNED TO THE HOUSING DIVISION OF
 SUCH MUNICIPAL COURT BUT MAY PRESIDE OVER ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING PEND-
 ING IN SUCH MUNICIPAL COURT AND MAY BE TEMPORARILY ASSIGNED TO THE  SAME
 COURTS  AS  ANY  OTHER  MUNICIPAL  COURT JUDGE.   ANY OTHER JUDGE OF THE
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 MUNICIPAL COURT IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK MAY BE ASSIGNED TO SUCH  HOUSING
 DIVISION.
   [i.  Temporary  assignments  of  all  the foregoing judges or justices
 listed in this section, and of judges of the  city  courts  pursuant  to
 paragraph  two  of  subdivision  j of this section, shall be made by the
 chief administrator of the  courts  in  accordance  with  standards  and
 administrative  policies established pursuant to section twenty-eight of
 this article.
   j. (1)] C. The legislature may provide for temporary assignments with-
 in the county of  residence  or  any  adjoining  county[,]  of  [judges]
 JUSTICES  of  town[,]  AND village [or city] courts [outside the city of
 New York].   SUCH ASSIGNMENTS MAY  INCLUDE  TEMPORARY  ASSIGNMENT  TO  A
 MUNICIPAL  COURT  OUTSIDE  THE  CITY OF NEW YORK PROVIDED THE JUSTICE SO
 ASSIGNED HAS BEEN PERMITTED TO PRACTICE LAW IN THIS STATE FOR  AT  LEAST
 FIVE YEARS OR SUCH GREATER NUMBER OF YEARS AS THE LEGISLATURE MAY DETER-
 MINE.
   [(2)  In  addition  to any temporary assignments to which a judge of a
 city court may be subject pursuant to paragraph one of this subdivision,
 such judge also may be temporarily assigned by the  chief  administrator
 of  the  courts  to  the  county court, the family court or the district
 court within his or her county of  residence  or  any  adjoining  county
 provided he or she is not permitted to practice law.
   k.]  D. TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENTS OF ALL THE FOREGOING JUDGES AND JUSTICES
 LISTED IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE MADE BY THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR  OF  THE
 COURTS  IN  ACCORDANCE WITH STANDARDS AND ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES ESTAB-
 LISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE.
   E. While temporarily assigned  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this
 section,  any judge or justice shall have the powers, duties, and juris-
 diction of a judge or justice of the court to which assigned. After  the
 expiration of any temporary assignment, as provided in this section, the
 judge  or  justice assigned shall have all the powers, duties and juris-
 diction of a judge or justice of the court to which  [he  or  she]  SUCH
 JUDGE  OR  JUSTICE  was  assigned with respect to matters pending before
 [him or her] SUCH JUDGE OR JUSTICE during the  term  of  such  temporary
 assignment.
   § 20. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 21 of article 6 of
 the  constitution, as renumbered by section eight of this resolution, be
 amended to read as follows:
   § 21. The governor may, when [in his or her] OF THE opinion  THAT  the
 public  interest  requires,  appoint  extraordinary terms of the supreme
 court. The governor shall designate the time and place  of  holding  the
 term and the justice who shall hold the term. The governor may terminate
 the  assignment  of  the justice and may name another justice in [his or
 her] SUCH JUSTICE'S place to hold the term.
   § 21. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That subdivision b  of  section
 22  of  article 6 of the constitution, as renumbered by section eight of
 this resolution, be amended to read as follows:
   b. The chief administrator, on behalf of the chief judge, shall super-
 vise the administration and operation of the unified court system.    In
 the  exercise  of  such  responsibility,  the chief administrator of the
 courts shall have such powers and duties as may be delegated to [him  or
 her]  THE  CHIEF  ADMINISTRATOR  by  the chief judge and such additional
 powers and duties as may be provided by law.
   § 22. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That subdivision a  of  section
 23  of  article 6 of the constitution, as renumbered by section eight of
 this resolution, be amended to read as follows:
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   a. The legislature shall provide for the allocation  of  the  cost  of
 operating  and  maintaining the court of appeals, the appellate division
 of the supreme court in each judicial department, THE  APPELLATE  TERMS,
 the  supreme  court,  AND  the  [court  of claims, the county court, the
 surrogate's court, the family court, the courts for the city of New York
 established pursuant to section fifteen of this article and the district
 court,]  MUNICIPAL COURTS among the state, the counties, the city of New
 York and other political subdivisions.
   § 23. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 24 of article 6 of
 the constitution, as renumbered by section eight of this resolution,  be
 amended to read as follows:
   §  24. The legislature shall have the same power to alter and regulate
 the jurisdiction and proceedings in law and in equity that it has  here-
 tofore exercised. The legislature may, on such terms as it shall provide
 and  subject  to subsequent modification, delegate, in whole or in part,
 to a court, including the appellate division of the supreme court, or to
 the chief administrator of the courts, any power possessed by the legis-
 lature to regulate practice and  procedure  in  the  courts.  The  chief
 administrator  of  the courts shall exercise any such power delegated to
 [him or her] THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR with the advice and consent of  the
 administrative  board  of  the  courts.  Nothing  herein contained shall
 prevent the adoption of regulations by individual courts consistent with
 the general practice and procedure as provided  by  statute  or  general
 rules.
   § 24. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That article 6 of the constitu-
 tion be amended by adding a new section 27 to read as follows:
   §  27.  A. (1) THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT IN OFFICE ON DECEMBER
 THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR SHALL, FOR THE REMAINDER  OF  THE
 TERMS  FOR WHICH THEY WERE SELECTED, BE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT IN
 AND FOR THE JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN WHICH THEY WERE ELECTED  OR  FOR  WHICH
 THEY WERE APPOINTED. RETIRED JUSTICES WHO, ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR, WERE AUTHORIZED TO PERFORM THE DUTIES OF A JUSTICE
 OF  THE  SUPREME  COURT PURSUANT TO CERTIFICATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
 PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION B OF FORMER SECTION TWENTY-FIVE OF THIS  ARTI-
 CLE  OF THE CONSTITUTION IN FORCE ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-ONE, SHALL BE CERTIFICATED JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT FOR  THE
 REMAINDER  OF  THE TERMS FOR WHICH THEY WERE CERTIFICATED AND THEREAFTER
 SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR FURTHER CERTIFICATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH  SUBDIVI-
 SION  B  OF  SECTION  NINETEEN  OF  THIS  ARTICLE. EACH DESIGNATION OF A
 JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT TO THE APPELLATE DIVISION OR  AN  APPELLATE
 TERM  IN  EFFECT ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR, NOT
 OTHERWISE REQUIRED TO EXPIRE ON ACCOUNT OF ANY PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE
 THEN IN EFFECT, SHALL CONTINUE IN EFFECT ON JANUARY FIRST, TWO  THOUSAND
 TWENTY-FIVE.
   (2) EFFECTIVE JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE, EACH ACTION AND
 PROCEEDING  PENDING  IN  THE SUPREME COURT ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR SHALL BE DEEMED PENDING IN THE SUPREME COURT IN THE
 COUNTY IN WHICH SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING WAS PENDING ON SUCH  DATE,  OR
 OTHERWISE AS MAY BE PROVIDED BY LAW.
   B. (1) EFFECTIVE OCTOBER FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE:
   A. THE COURT OF CLAIMS SHALL BE ABOLISHED;
   B.  EACH  ACTION  AND  PROCEEDING  PENDING  IN  THE COURT OF CLAIMS ON
 SEPTEMBER THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE SHALL BE DEEMED PENDING IN
 THE SUPREME COURT IN THE COUNTY  IN  WHICH  SUCH  ACTION  OR  PROCEEDING
 AROSE, OR OTHERWISE AS MAY BE PROVIDED BY LAW;
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   C.  EACH  JUDGE  OF  THE  CITY-WIDE COURT OF CIVIL JURISDICTION OR THE
 CITY-WIDE COURT OF CRIMINAL JURISDICTION OF THE CITY  OF  NEW  YORK,  AS
 ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  FORMER SECTION FIFTEEN OF THIS ARTICLE OF THE
 CONSTITUTION IN FORCE ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE,
 OR  OF  THE  FAMILY COURT IN SUCH CITY, WHO, ON SEPTEMBER THIRTIETH, TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE AND CONTINUOUSLY THROUGHOUT  THE  SIX-MONTH  PERIOD
 IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING SUCH DATE, WAS TEMPORARILY ASSIGNED TO THE SUPREME
 COURT  PURSUANT  TO  FORMER  SECTION  TWENTY-SIX  OF THIS ARTICLE OF THE
 CONSTITUTION IN FORCE ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-ONE
 SHALL,  FOR  THE REMAINDER OF THE TERM OF OFFICE IN WHICH SUCH JUDGE WAS
 THEN SERVING, BE A JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT IN AND FOR THE  JUDICIAL
 DISTRICT  IN WHICH SUCH JUDGE WAS ELECTED TO SUCH TERM OR, IF APPOINTED,
 IN WHICH SUCH JUDGE RESIDED ON SUCH DATE. THEREAFTER, THE OFFICE OF SUCH
 JUDGE SHALL BE AN OFFICE OF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT, TO  BE  FILLED
 IN  THE SAME MANNER AND FOR THE SAME TERM AS PROVIDED BY THIS ARTICLE ON
 DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR FOR A JUDGE OF THE COURT
 FROM WHICH SUCH JUDGE WAS ASSIGNED TO SERVE ON THE SUPREME COURT.
   (2) EFFECTIVE JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-EIGHT:
   A. THE COUNTY COURT, THE SURROGATE'S COURT, AND THE FAMILY COURT SHALL
 BE ABOLISHED; AND
   B. EACH ACTION AND PROCEEDING PENDING IN A COURT ABOLISHED PURSUANT TO
 SUBPARAGRAPH A OF THIS PARAGRAPH ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO  THOUSAND
 TWENTY-SEVEN  SHALL BE DEEMED PENDING IN THE SUPREME COURT IN THE COUNTY
 IN WHICH SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING WAS PENDING ON SUCH DATE,  OR  OTHER-
 WISE AS MAY BE PROVIDED BY LAW.
   (3)  UPON ABOLITION OF THE COURTS SPECIFIED IN SUBPARAGRAPH A OF PARA-
 GRAPH ONE AND SUBPARAGRAPH A OF PARAGRAPH TWO OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THEIR
 SEALS, RECORDS, PAPERS, AND DOCUMENTS SHALL BE DEPOSITED IN THE  OFFICES
 OF  THE  CLERKS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF SUCH COUNTIES AS MAY BE PROVIDED
 BY LAW.  EACH OF THE JUDGES OF THESE COURTS IN OFFICE  ON  THE  DATE  OF
 THEIR ABOLITION SHALL, FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TERM OF OFFICE FOR WHICH
 SUCH  JUDGE  WAS  SELECTED  TO  THE ABOLISHED COURT, BE A JUSTICE OF THE
 SUPREME COURT IN AND FOR THE JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN WHICH SUCH  JUDGE  WAS
 ELECTED  TO  SUCH  TERM OR, IF APPOINTED, IN WHICH SUCH JUDGE RESIDED ON
 SUCH DATE.  THEREAFTER, THE OFFICE OF SUCH JUDGE SHALL BE AN  OFFICE  OF
 JUSTICE  OF  THE  SUPREME COURT, TO BE FILLED IN THE SAME MANNER AND FOR
 THE SAME TERM AS PROVIDED BY THIS ARTICLE ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST,  TWO
 THOUSAND  TWENTY-FOUR  FOR THE OFFICE HELD BY THE JUDGE ON THE ABOLISHED
 COURT.
   C. EFFECTIVE JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND THIRTY:
   (1) A. THE CITY-WIDE COURTS OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JURISDICTION FOR THE
 CITY OF NEW YORK ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO FORMER SECTION FIFTEEN OF  THIS
 ARTICLE OF THE CONSTITUTION IN FORCE ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOU-
 SAND TWENTY-ONE SHALL BE ABOLISHED;
   B. EACH ACTION AND PROCEEDING PENDING IN A COURT ABOLISHED PURSUANT TO
 SUBPARAGRAPH  A OF THIS PARAGRAPH ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-NINE SHALL BE DEEMED PENDING IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT IN  THE  CITY
 OF NEW YORK; AND
   C. EACH JUDGE OF A COURT SPECIFIED IN SUBPARAGRAPH A OF THIS PARAGRAPH
 IN  OFFICE  ON THE DATE OF ITS ABOLITION SHALL, FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE
 TERM OF OFFICE SUCH JUDGE WAS THEN SERVING ON THE ABOLISHED COURT, BE  A
 JUDGE  OF  THE MUNICIPAL COURT IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. THEREAFTER, SUCH
 JUDGE'S OFFICE SHALL BE AN OFFICE OF JUDGE OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT IN THE
 CITY OF NEW YORK, TO BE FILLED IN THE SAME MANNER AND FOR THE SAME  TERM
 AS PROVIDED BY THIS ARTICLE ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWEN-
 TY-FOUR  FOR THE OFFICE HELD BY SUCH JUDGE ON SUCH DATE. FOR PURPOSES OF
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 THIS PARAGRAPH, HOUSING JUDGES FOR THE CITY-WIDE COURT OF  CIVIL  JURIS-
 DICTION  IN  OFFICE  ON  DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-NINE
 SHALL BE DEEMED JUDGES OF SUCH CITY-WIDE COURT OF CIVIL JURISDICTION  ON
 SUCH  DATE;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THE  SUCCESSORS IN OFFICE TO EACH SUCH
 HOUSING JUDGE SHALL BE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND, SUBJECT TO
 THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION C OF  SECTION  FIFTEEN  OF  THIS  ARTICLE,
 SHALL  BE  APPOINTED  FOR  A TERM OF TEN YEARS BY THE MAYOR OF SUCH CITY
 FROM A LIST OF PERSONS FOUND QUALIFIED BY  AN  ADVISORY  COUNCIL  ESTAB-
 LISHED BY LAW.
   (2)  A.  THE  DISTRICT  COURTS  HERETOFORE CONTINUED OR ESTABLISHED IN
 NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES PURSUANT TO FORMER SECTION SIXTEEN  OF  THIS
 ARTICLE OF THE CONSTITUTION IN FORCE ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOU-
 SAND  TWENTY-ONE  SHALL  BE  CONTINUED AS MUNICIPAL COURTS AND DEEMED TO
 HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH  ONE  OF  SUBDIVISION  B  OF
 SECTION NINE OF THIS ARTICLE;
   B.  EACH ACTION AND PROCEEDING PENDING IN A DISTRICT COURT ON DECEMBER
 THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-NINE SHALL BE DEEMED  PENDING  IN  THE
 MUNICIPAL COURT THAT IS THE SUCCESSOR TO SUCH DISTRICT COURT ESTABLISHED
 PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH ONE OF SUBDIVISION B OF SECTION NINE OF THIS ARTI-
 CLE; AND
   C.  EACH JUDGE OF A DISTRICT COURT IN OFFICE ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST,
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-NINE SHALL, FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TERM FOR  WHICH
 SUCH  JUDGE  WAS SELECTED, BE A JUDGE OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT THAT IS THE
 SUCCESSOR TO SUCH DISTRICT COURT ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO  PARAGRAPH  ONE
 OF SUBDIVISION B OF SECTION NINE OF THIS ARTICLE.
   (3)  A. THE CITY COURTS OUTSIDE THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AS AUTHORIZED BY
 FORMER SECTION SEVENTEEN OF THIS ARTICLE OF THE CONSTITUTION IN FORCE ON
 DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE, SHALL  BE  CONTINUED  AS
 MUNICIPAL  COURTS  FOR THE CITIES IN WHICH THEY WERE LOCATED ON DECEMBER
 THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-NINE AND SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE  BEEN
 ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO PARAGRAPH TWO OF SUBDIVISION B OF SECTION NINE
 OF THIS ARTICLE;
   B. EACH ACTION AND PROCEEDING PENDING IN A CITY COURT OUTSIDE THE CITY
 OF NEW YORK ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-NINE SHALL  BE
 DEEMED PENDING IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT THAT IS THE SUCCESSOR TO SUCH CITY
 COURT  ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH TWO OF SUBDIVISION B OF SECTION
 NINE OF THIS ARTICLE; AND
   C. EACH JUDGE OF A CITY COURT IN OFFICE ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST,  TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY-NINE SHALL, FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TERM FOR WHICH SUCH
 JUDGE  WAS  SELECTED,  BE  A  JUDGE  OF SUCH MUNICIPAL COURT THAT IS THE
 SUCCESSOR TO SUCH CITY COURT ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO  PARAGRAPH  TWO  OF
 SUBDIVISION B OF SECTION NINE OF THIS ARTICLE.
   (4)  UPON ABOLITION OF THE COURTS SPECIFIED IN SUBPARAGRAPH A OF PARA-
 GRAPH ONE AND SUBPARAGRAPH A OF PARAGRAPH THREE OF THIS SUBDIVISION, AND
 CONTINUATION OF THE DISTRICT COURTS AUTHORIZED BY FORMER SECTION SIXTEEN
 OF THIS ARTICLE AS MUNICIPAL COURTS, THEIR SEALS, RECORDS,  PAPERS,  AND
 DOCUMENTS  SHALL BECOME THE SEALS, RECORDS, PAPERS, AND DOCUMENTS OF THE
 APPROPRIATE MUNICIPAL COURT AS MAY BE PROVIDED BY LAW.
   D. IN THE EVENT THAT A JUDGMENT OR ORDER WAS ENTERED BEFORE  THE  DATE
 OF ABOLITION OF A COURT HEREUNDER, OR CONTINUATION OF A COURT AS ANOTHER
 COURT,  AND  A RIGHT OF APPEAL EXISTED AND NOTICE OF APPEAL THEREFROM IS
 FILED AFTER SUCH DATE, SUCH APPEAL SHALL BE TAKEN TO SUCH  COURT  AS  IT
 MIGHT  HAVE BEEN TAKEN BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION, EXCEPT
 SUCH AN APPEAL FROM A CITY, TOWN, OR  VILLAGE  COURT  IN  THE  THIRD  OR
 FOURTH JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT SHALL BE TAKEN TO ANY APPELLATE TERM THAT HAS
 BEEN  ESTABLISHED IF, PRIOR TO DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWEN-
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 TY-NINE, SUCH APPEAL COULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN THERETO OR, OTHERWISE, TO THE
 SUPREME COURT. FURTHER APPEAL FROM A DECISION OF AN APPELLATE  COURT  IN
 AN  ACTION  SUBJECT  TO  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL BE AS PROVIDED BY LAW,
 CONSISTENT WITH THIS ARTICLE.
   E.  IN  THE  EVENT THAT AN APPEAL WAS DECIDED BY A COUNTY COURT BEFORE
 JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-EIGHT AND A FURTHER APPEAL  COULD  BE
 TAKEN  AS  OF  RIGHT  AND NOTICE OF APPEAL THEREFROM IS FILED AFTER SUCH
 DATE, SUCH APPEAL MAY BE TAKEN TO ANY APPELLATE COURT TO WHICH  SUCH  AN
 APPEAL  COULD  HAVE BEEN TAKEN PRIOR TO SUCH DATE. FURTHER APPEAL FROM A
 DECISION OF SUCH APPELLATE COURT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE PROVISIONS  OF
 THIS  ARTICLE.  IF A FURTHER APPEAL COULD NOT BE TAKEN AS OF RIGHT, SUCH
 APPEAL SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE.
   F. AS MAY BE PROVIDED BY LAW, THE NONJUDICIAL PERSONNEL OF THE  COURTS
 ABOLISHED  OR  CONTINUED BY THIS SECTION IN OFFICE ON THE DATE OF ABOLI-
 TION OR CONTINUATION SHALL, TO  THE  EXTENT  PRACTICABLE,  BE  CONTINUED
 WITHOUT  DECREASE IN SALARIES AND WITH THE SAME STATUS AND RIGHTS IN THE
 COURTS ESTABLISHED OR CONTINUED BY THIS ARTICLE; AND ESPECIALLY SKILLED,
 EXPERIENCED, AND TRAINED PERSONNEL SHALL, TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE,  BE
 ASSIGNED  TO LIKE FUNCTIONS IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT OR THE SUPREME COURT,
 AS APPROPRIATE.
   G. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF  THIS  ARTICLE  TO  THE  CONTRARY,
 WHERE  THERE  IS AN ADJUSTMENT IN THE NUMBER OF THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS
 OF THE STATE OR IN THE BOUNDARIES OF SUCH DEPARTMENTS PURSUANT TO  PARA-
 GRAPH TWO OF SUBDIVISION A OF SECTION FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE:
   (1)  THE  LEGISLATURE  SHALL  PROVIDE FOR THE TRANSFER OF APPEALS THEN
 PENDING IN THE APPELLATE DIVISION  OR  IN  AN  APPELLATE  TERM  IN  EACH
 DEPARTMENT  SO  ADJUSTED TO THE APPELLATE DIVISION OR AN APPELLATE TERM,
 RESPECTIVELY, FOR THE DEPARTMENT IN WHICH SUCH APPEALS COULD  HAVE  BEEN
 TAKEN  HAD  SUCH  ADJUSTMENT  BEEN EFFECTIVE ON THE DATE SUCH APPEAL WAS
 TAKEN, OR IF NO APPELLATE TERM HAS BEEN  ESTABLISHED  THEREFOR,  TO  THE
 SUPREME COURT.
   (2)  THE  GOVERNOR MAY REAPPORTION, AMONG THE DEPARTMENTS SO ADJUSTED,
 THE JUSTICES THERETOFORE DESIGNATED TO THE APPELLATE DIVISIONS  THEREOF,
 PROVIDED  THAT:  (I)  THE  PRESIDING  JUSTICE OF ANY JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
 AFFECTED BY SUCH ADJUSTMENT  SHALL  BE  THE  PRESIDING  JUSTICE  OF  THE
 DEPARTMENT  THAT INCLUDES THE COUNTY OF SUCH JUSTICE'S RESIDENCE FOR THE
 REMAINDER OF SUCH JUSTICE'S TERM OF OFFICE, UNLESS THERE  ALREADY  IS  A
 PRESIDING  JUSTICE  IN  SUCH  DEPARTMENT,  IN  WHICH EVENT THE PRESIDING
 JUSTICE OF THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT AFFECTED  BY  SUCH  ADJUSTMENT  SHALL
 SERVE  AS  A  JUSTICE IN SUCH DEPARTMENT FOR THE DURATION OF THE TERM OF
 OFFICE FOR WHICH SUCH JUSTICE WAS DESIGNATED AS PRESIDING  JUSTICE;  AND
 (II)  EACH OTHER JUSTICE DESIGNATED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION C OF SECTION
 FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE TO THE APPELLATE  DIVISION  OF  ANY  DEPARTMENT  SO
 ADJUSTED SHALL, FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TERM FOR WHICH SUCH JUSTICE WAS
 SO  DESIGNATED,  BE A JUSTICE OF THE DEPARTMENT TO WHICH SUCH JUSTICE IS
 REAPPORTIONED.
   (3) WHERE COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH TWO OF THIS SUBDIVISION IS  INCON-
 SISTENT  WITH  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE AS TO A
 JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT AFFECTED BY SUCH  ADJUSTMENT,  UNTIL  SUCH  TIME  AS
 THERE  IS COMPLIANCE WITH SUCH PROVISIONS ALL SUBSEQUENT DESIGNATIONS OF
 JUSTICES BY THE GOVERNOR TO THE APPELLATE DIVISION  OF  SUCH  DEPARTMENT
 SHALL BE AS PROVIDED BY LAW.
   (4)  IF  A  DEPARTMENT IS ABOLISHED, THE LEGISLATURE SHALL PROVIDE FOR
 THE DEPOSIT OF THE SEALS, RECORDS, PAPERS, AND DOCUMENTS OF  THE  APPEL-
 LATE DIVISION THEREOF, AS APPROPRIATE.
 A. 9401                            23
 
   § 25. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That article 6 of the constitu-
 tion be amended by adding a new section 29 to read as follows:
   §  29.  A.  EXCEPT  AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION B OF THIS SECTION, THIS
 ARTICLE AND ALL AMENDMENTS THERETO, AS HERETOFORE APPROVED AND  RATIFIED
 BY THE PEOPLE, SHALL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT.
   B.  THE  REPEAL OF SECTIONS NINE, TEN, ELEVEN, TWELVE, THIRTEEN, FOUR-
 TEEN, SIXTEEN, THIRTY-FOUR, THIRTY-FIVE, THIRTY-SIX, THIRTY-SIX-A, THIR-
 TY-SIX-C, THIRTY-SEVEN AND SUBDIVISION J OF SECTION TWENTY-TWO  OF  THIS
 ARTICLE,  THE  AMENDMENTS  TO  SECTIONS  ONE, TWO, FOUR, SIX, SEVEN, AND
 EIGHT OF THIS ARTICLE, THE RENUMBERING OF AND, AS RENUMBERED, THE AMEND-
 MENTS TO SECTIONS NINE, ELEVEN, THIRTEEN,  FOURTEEN,  FIFTEEN,  SIXTEEN,
 SEVENTEEN,  EIGHTEEN,  NINETEEN,  TWENTY,  TWENTY-ONE, TWENTY-THREE, AND
 TWENTY-FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE, THE AMENDMENT OF SUBDIVISION B  OF  SECTION
 TWENTY-TWO,  SUCH  SECTION  AS  RENUMBERED,  THE RENUMBERING OF SECTIONS
 TWELVE, SIXTEEN, EIGHTEEN, TWENTY-ONE, TWENTY-TWO, TWENTY-FOUR,  TWENTY-
 FIVE,  TWENTY-SIX, AND TWENTY-EIGHT OF THIS ARTICLE, AND THE ADDITION OF
 NEW SECTIONS TEN, TWENTY-SEVEN, AND  TWENTY-NINE  TO  THIS  ARTICLE,  AS
 FIRST  PROPOSED  BY A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE IN
 THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO, ENTITLED "CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE
 SENATE AND ASSEMBLY PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE 6 OF  THE  CONSTITU-
 TION,  IN  RELATION TO CONSOLIDATION OF THE UNIFIED COURT SYSTEM, AND TO
 REPEAL OF SECTIONS 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 34, 35, 36, 36-A, 36-C, 37
 AND SUBDIVISION J OF SECTION 22 OF ARTICLE 6 OF THE CONSTITUTION  RELAT-
 ING  THERETO"  SHALL BECOME A PART OF THE CONSTITUTION ON JANUARY FIRST,
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE AND SHALL BE EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE;  PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER,  THAT  PARAGRAPH  TWO  OF  SUBDIVISION D OF SECTION SIX OF THIS
 ARTICLE, AS ADDED BY SUCH CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, SHALL NOT BE  EFFECTIVE
 UNTIL  THE  FIRST  DAY  OF JANUARY, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-EIGHT, WHEN UPON
 SUCH DATE SUCH PARAGRAPH SHALL TAKE EFFECT.
   C. NOTWITHSTANDING SUBDIVISION B OF THIS SECTION,  THE  PROVISIONS  OF
 THIS  ARTICLE  IN  EFFECT ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-
 FOUR SHALL CONTINUE TO APPLY TO ANY COURT OR COURTS  SPECIFIED  IN  SUCH
 PROVISIONS, AND THE JUDGE OR JUDGES THEREOF, UNTIL THE ABOLITION OF SUCH
 COURT  OR  COURTS  AS  PROVIDED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-SEVEN OF THIS
 ARTICLE.
   § 26. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the  foregoing  amendments
 be referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
 next  succeeding  general  election  of members of the assembly, and, in
 conformity with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution,  be
 published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.