A08957 Summary:

BILL NOA08957A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S05968-A
 
SPONSORWeinstein (MS)
 
COSPNSRScarborough, John, O'Donnell, Destito, Dinowitz, Paulin, Titone, Rosenthal, Clark, Schimel, Canestrari
 
MLTSPNSRBing, Brennan, Cahill, Carrozza, Cook, Cymbrowitz, DelMonte, Espaillat, Farrell, Gordon, Gottfried, Heastie, Hyer-Spencer, Jaffee, Kellner, Koon, Lupardo, Markey, Mayersohn, McEneny, Millman, Nolan, O'Mara, Peoples-Stokes, Reilly, Rivera N, Sayward, Schroeder, Sweeney, Titus,
 
Amd S121, Fam Ct Act
 
Provides for additional family court judges in the city of New York and in the counties of Albany, Broome, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Monroe, Nassau, Niagara, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Schenectady, Suffolk and Westchester.
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A08957 Actions:

BILL NOA08957A
 
06/16/2009referred to judiciary
06/18/2009reported referred to ways and means
01/06/2010referred to judiciary
02/11/2010amend and recommit to judiciary
02/11/2010print number 8957a
04/13/2010reported referred to ways and means
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A08957 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A8957A
 
SPONSOR: Weinstein (MS)
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the family court act, in relation to judges of the family court This measure is being introduced at the request of the Chief Judge of the State. This measure would amend the Family Court Act to establish 21 new Family Court judgeships, as follows: * in New York City, seven new judgeships, effective January 1, 2011. * outside New York City, one new judgeship in each of the following fourteen counties, effective January 1, 2011 (with each judgeship first being filled at the November 2010 general election): Albany, Broome, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Monroe, Nassau, Niagara, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Schenectady, Suffolk and Westchester. While the past several decades have seen increasing legislative recogni- tion of the needs of children and families in New York, in the form of landmark statutes promoting child permanency and enhancing family justice, these salutary efforts have not been matched by provision for a corps of Family Court judgeships sufficiently large to meet the greater caseloads and complexity of proceedings in our courts today. The conse- quences of this neglect, if not attended to soon, will be disturbing, indeed heartbreaking - and utterly unacceptable: justice delayed for children and families whose safety and welfare can require immediate intervention, children growing up in foster care instead of permanent homes, children graduating from Family Court to Criminal Court instead of high school and college, missed opportunities and spiraling ineffi- ciency for juvenile justice and legal defense agencies. This measure will go a long way toward redressing this unintended and lamentable condition. If enacted, it would represent the first major infusion of new Family Court Judges in New York in over three decades and begin to provide the State's family justice system with the resources needed to protect the most vulnerable members of our communi- ty. This measure would take effect immediately. Legislative History: None. New proposal.
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A08957 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         8957--A
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 16, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, SCARBOROUGH, JOHN, O'DONNELL, DESTITO,
          DINOWITZ,  PAULIN,  TITONE, PERALTA, ROSENTHAL, CLARK, SCHIMEL, CANES-
          TRARI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BING, BRENNAN, CAHILL, CARROZ-
          ZA, COOK, CYMBROWITZ, DelMONTE, ESPAILLAT, FARRELL, GORDON, GOTTFRIED,
          HEASTIE, HYER-SPENCER, JAFFEE, KELLNER,  LUPARDO,  MARKEY,  MAYERSOHN,

          McENENY,  MILLMAN,  NOLAN,  O'MARA, PEOPLES-STOKES, REILLY, N. RIVERA,
          SAYWARD, SCHROEDER, SWEENEY, TITUS, WEISENBERG -- (at request  of  the
          Office  of  Court  Administration)  --  read  once and referred to the
          Committee on Judiciary -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
 
        AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to judges of the fami-
          ly court
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by chapter
     2  209 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New  York

     4  shall  consist  of  [forty-four  judges  and, as of July first, nineteen
     5  hundred ninety, shall consist of forty-five  judges  and,  as  of  April
     6  first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-one,  shall  consist  of  forty-seven]
     7  fifty-four judges, effective January first, two thousand  eleven.    [At
     8  least  one of the persons appointed to the office of judge of the family
     9  court created by this section, shall be a  resident  of  the  county  of
    10  Richmond  and  hereafter there] There shall be at least one family court
    11  judge resident in each county of the city of New York.  [The  amount  of
    12  compensation  for  such  new  family  court judges shall be equal to the
    13  compensation payable to existing family court judges in the city of  New

    14  York.]
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14413-03-0

        A. 8957--A                          2
 
     1    §  2.  Section  131 of the family court act is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision (u) to read as follows:
     3    (u)  There  shall  be an additional family court judge for each of the
     4  following counties: Albany, Broome, Chautauqua, Chemung,  Erie,  Monroe,
     5  Nassau,  Niagara, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Schenectady, Suffolk and
     6  Westchester. The compensation of each such additional family court judge
     7  shall be the same as the compensation paid to each existing family court

     8  judge in the county for which it is established.
     9    § 3. This act shall take effect January 1,  2011;  provided,  however,
    10  the  additional  family court judges provided for by section two of this
    11  act shall first be elected at the general election to be held in  Novem-
    12  ber 2010 and shall first take office January 1, 2011.
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