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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7669
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 1, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary
 
        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, the family court act,  the  New  York
          city  criminal  court  act  and  the New York city civil court act, in
          relation to increasing the number of judges in courts

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section 140-a of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter
     2  365 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 140-a. Number of supreme court justices in each  judicial  district.
     4  The  number  of  justices of the supreme court in each judicial district
     5  shall be as follows:
     6    1. First district, thirty-eight;
     7    2. Second district, [fifty-two] fifty-three;
     8    3. Third district, seventeen;
     9    4. Fourth district, fourteen;
    10    5. Fifth district, nineteen;
    11    6. Sixth district, eleven;
    12    7. Seventh district, twenty;
    13    8. Eighth district, twenty-eight;
    14    9. Ninth district, [thirty-three] thirty-four;
    15    10. Tenth district, fifty-one;
    16    11. Eleventh district, [forty-three] forty-four;
    17    12. Twelfth district, twenty-nine;
    18    13. Thirteenth district, nine.
    19    No person may serve in the office of  justice  of  the  supreme  court
    20  unless  he  or she has been admitted to practice law in the state of New
    21  York for at least ten years as of the  date  he  or  she  commences  the
    22  duties of office.
    23    § 2. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by chapter 365 of
    24  the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11653-02-3
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     1    §  121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New York
     2  shall consist of [sixty] sixty-three judges,  effective  January  first,
     3  two  thousand  [twenty-three] twenty-four.   There shall be at least one
     4  family court judge resident in each county of the city of New York.
     5    §  3.  Section  131 of the family court act is amended by adding a new
     6  subdivision (w) to read as follows:
     7    (w) There shall be an additional family court judge for  each  of  the
     8  following  counties:  Albany,  Chemung,  Erie,  Monroe, Niagara, Oneida,
     9  Onondaga, St. Lawrence, Suffolk, and Westchester.   The compensation  of
    10  each such additional family court judge shall be the same as the compen-
    11  sation  paid  to  each existing family court judge in such county or, if
    12  there is no separately-elected family court judge in  such  county,  the
    13  same  as  the  compensation  paid to a judge of the county court in such
    14  county.
    15    § 4. Section 20 of the New York city criminal court act, as amended by
    16  chapter 500 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
    17    § 20. The court constituted.  The criminal court of the  city  of  New
    18  York  is hereby established as a single, city-wide court, as provided by
    19  sections one and fifteen of article six of the constitution; it shall be
    20  a part of the unified court system for the state, and a court of  record
    21  with  such power and jurisdiction as are herein or elsewhere provided by
    22  law. It shall consist of the number of justices of the court of  special
    23  sessions  of  the  city  of  New York and magistrates of the city magis-
    24  trates' courts of the city of New York authorized by law  on  the  first
    25  day  of  March,  nineteen hundred sixty-two. Each of the justices of the
    26  court of special sessions of the city of New York and each of the magis-
    27  trates of the magistrates' courts of the city of New York in  office  on
    28  the  first day of September, nineteen hundred sixty-two shall, until the
    29  last day of the year in which the term for which he was appointed  would
    30  otherwise  have expired, be a judge of the criminal court of the city of
    31  New York. In addition to the judges provided for herein, there shall  be
    32  [twenty-nine]  thirty-one additional judges of the criminal court effec-
    33  tive January first, two thousand  twenty-four.  Such  additional  judges
    34  shall receive the same compensation as the existing judges of the crimi-
    35  nal court the city of New York.
    36    §  5. Section 102-a of the New York city civil court act is amended by
    37  adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
    38    2-a. Two additional judges of the civil court of the city of New  York
    39  shall  be elected in and from the residents of the following counties in
    40  the indicated numbers: from the county of New York, one; from the county
    41  of Bronx, one.  Such additional judges shall receive  the  same  compen-
    42  sation as the existing judges of the civil court of the city of New York
    43  and shall be elected countywide within the city of New York.
    44    §  6.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    45  the positions created by sections one, three and five of this act  shall
    46  be  filled  by  election at the November 5, 2024 election, for a term to
    47  commence on the first day of January 2025.

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