Bill Text: NY A02328 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows the petitioner to have counsel assigned by the court in certain custody proceedings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A02328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02328-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2328

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 25, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. WALSH, MIKULIN, DeSTEFANO, BLANKENBUSH, MILLER,
          SMITH, DURSO, GALLAHAN -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of  A.  ANGELINO,
          MANKTELOW, MORINELLO, TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary

        AN  ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to allowing the peti-
          tioner to have counsel  assigned  by  the  court  in  certain  custody
          proceedings

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (iii) of subdivision (a) of section  262  of  the
     2  family  court  act,  as  amended  by chapter 666 of the laws of 1976, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (iii) the petitioner and the respondent in any proceeding  under  part
     5  three of article six of this act;
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02671-01-3