S05968 Summary:

BILL NOS05968A
 
SAME ASSAME AS A08957-A
 
SPONSORSAMPSON
 
COSPNSRMONTGOMERY, SCHNEIDERMAN, THOMPSON
 
MLTSPNSR
 
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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S05968 Actions:

BILL NOS05968A
 
06/19/2009REFERRED TO RULES
08/06/2009ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.953
08/06/2009RECOMMITTED TO RULES
09/10/2009RESTORED TO THIRD READING
09/10/2009PASSED SENATE
09/10/2009DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
09/11/2009referred to ways and means
01/06/2010died in assembly
01/06/2010returned to senate
01/06/2010REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
02/12/2010AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO JUDICIARY
02/12/2010PRINT NUMBER 5968A
05/18/2010REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
06/02/20101ST REPORT CAL.692
06/03/20102ND REPORT CAL.
06/07/2010ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
06/22/2010PASSED SENATE
06/22/2010DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
06/22/2010referred to ways and means
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S05968 Memo:

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S05968 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         5968--A
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 19, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. SAMPSON, MONTGOMERY, THOMPSON -- (at request of the
          Office of Court Administration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --  recommitted
          to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended

          and recommitted to said committee
 
        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.]
    15    §  2.  Section  131 of the family court act is amended by adding a new
    16  subdivision (u) to read as follows:
    17    (u) There shall be an additional family court judge for  each  of  the
    18  following  counties:  Albany, Broome, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Monroe,

    19  Nassau, Niagara, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Schenectady, Suffolk  and
    20  Westchester. The compensation of each such additional family court judge
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14413-02-0

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     1  shall be the same as the compensation paid to each existing family court
     2  judge in the county for which it is established.
     3    §  3.  This  act shall take effect January 1, 2011; provided, however,
     4  the additional family court judges provided for by section two  of  this
     5  act  shall first be elected at the general election to be held in Novem-

     6  ber 2010 and shall first take office January 1, 2011.
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