Bill Text: NY A03214 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows the petitioner to have counsel assigned by the court in certain custody proceedings.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 15-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to judiciary [A03214 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A03214-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3214 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WALSH, MIKULIN, DeSTEFANO, BLANKENBUSH, MONTESA- NO, B. MILLER, SMITH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GRIFFIN, MANK- TELOW, 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. LBD05077-01-1