Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 22, 2024 |
reported referred to rules |
Jan 03, 2024 |
referred to judiciary |
May 23, 2023 |
reported referred to rules |
May 10, 2023 |
referred to judiciary |
Assembly Bill A6997
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
SIMONE
Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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
Rebecca Seawright
Jo Anne Simon
Eddie Gibbs
David Weprin
2023-A6997 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S6676
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Rules
- Law Section:
- Uniform City Court Act
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §1803, UCCA; amd §1803, UJCA
2023-A6997 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Standardizes the language across the relevant court acts to allow tenants statewide to sue in the county where the real property at issue is located in matters relating to a tenancy or lease; requires the Office of Court Administration to develop necessary forms, procedures and deliver a report.
2023-A6997 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6997 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y May 10, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the uniform city court act and the uniform justice court act, in relation to obtaining jurisdiction over certain defendants THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1803 of the uniform city court act, as amended by chapter 485 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows: (a) Small claims shall be commenced upon the payment by the claimant of a filing fee of fifteen dollars for claims in the amount of one thou- sand dollars or less and twenty dollars for claims in the amount of more than one thousand dollars, without the service of a summons and, except by special order of the court, without the service of any pleading other than a statement of his OR HER cause of action by the claimant or some- one in his OR HER behalf to the clerk, who shall reduce the same to a concise, written form and record it in a docket kept especially for such purpose. Such procedure shall provide for the sending of notice of such claim by ordinary first class mail and certified mail with return receipt requested to the party complained against (1) at his OR HER residence, if he OR SHE resides within the county, and his OR HER resi- dence is known to the claimant, or (2) at his OR HER office or place of regular employment within the county if he OR SHE does not reside there- in or his OR HER residence within the county is not known to the claim- ant, or (3) where the claimant is or was a tenant or lessee of real property owned by the defendant and the claim relates to such tenancy or lease and the notice of claim cannot be sent under paragraph one or two of this subdivision, at any place in the [county or an adjoining county] STATE where claimant may mail or otherwise deliver rent. If, after the expiration of twenty-one days, such ordinary first class mailing has not been returned as undeliverable, the party complained against shall be EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11154-01-3
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