Bill Text: NY A10041 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the legislature to ensure that the number of judges and justices in districts and courts is sufficient; directs the chief administrator of the courts to report on the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in each court and to make recommendations on such numbers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-07 - print number 10041a [A10041 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10041-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10041--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 2, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BORES, SEPTIMO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to the sufficiency of the
          number of judges and justices in districts and courts

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

     1    Section 1. The judiciary law is amended by adding a new section  219-f
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 219-f. Sufficiency of number of judges and justices in districts and
     4  courts.  In  exercising  its powers pursuant to subdivision b of section
     5  six of article six of the constitution, the legislature  shall  seek  to
     6  ensure  that  each  district  and  court  therein  shall have sufficient
     7  numbers of judges and justices to perform its functions  in  a  thorough
     8  and  efficient  manner,  considering  the  number of cases filed in each
     9  court, the complexity of such cases, the extent of delays in the  dispo-
    10  sition  of cases in each court, and any other factors used by recognized
    11  national or state authorities who study the proper allocation  of  judi-
    12  cial resources.
    13    §  2.  Paragraph  (j) of subdivision 1 of section 212 of the judiciary
    14  law, as added by chapter 156 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read  as
    15  follows:
    16    (j)  Collect,  compile  and  publish  statistics  and  other data with
    17  respect to the unified court system in order to assist  the  legislature
    18  in  performing  its functions pursuant to section two hundred nineteen-f
    19  of this article and submit annually, on or before the fifteenth  day  of
    20  March, to the legislature and the governor a report of [his] such admin-
    21  istrator's  activities  and the state of the unified court system during
    22  the preceding year.  Such report shall include  recommendations  on  the
    23  number  of  judges  and justices needed in each court, which recommenda-
    24  tions shall be acted upon in such manner as the legislature may direct.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    26  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15384-03-4