Senate Bill S7903

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for an optional excuse from jury service for persons age 70 and over

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Judiciary Committee

  • 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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2023-S7903 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8325
Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §517, Judy L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7331, A9292
2017-2018: S2977, A2347
2019-2020: S3332, A429
2021-2022: S7589, A1371

2023-S7903 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for an optional excuse from jury service for persons age 70 and over.

2023-S7903 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7903 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7903
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 3, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to optional excusal  from
   jury service for persons age 70 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
 SEVENTY 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.
                                                            LBD02828-01-3

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