Bill Text: NY A05477 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Increases number of family court judges in Monroe county from six to eight, the additional judges to be elected in November of 2013 and take office January 1, 2014.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to judiciary [A05477 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A05477-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5477
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 22, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, SCHROEDER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
         A. BOYLAND -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  family court act, in relation to increasing the
         number of family court judges for the county of Monroe
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision (e) of section 131 of the family court act, as
    2  amended by chapter 178 of the laws  of  2000,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    (e)  In  the  county of Monroe there shall be [six] EIGHT family court
    5  judges and the number of such judges now  existing  in  said  county  is
    6  hereby  increased  accordingly; in the county of Erie there shall be six
    7  family court judges and the number of such judges now existing  in  said
    8  county  is  hereby  increased accordingly. In the county of Albany there
    9  shall be a total of three family court judges and  the  number  of  such
   10  judges now existing in such county is hereby increased accordingly.
   11    S    2.  This act shall take effect immediately except that the family
   12  court judges provided for in this act shall  first  be  elected  at  the
   13  general  election  to  be  held  in  November, 2013 and shall first take
   14  office January 1, 2014.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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