Bill Text: NY A10687 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits elderly individuals to be excused from jury service without the need to demonstrate any incapacity or hardship.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-01 - referred to judiciary [A10687 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10687-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10687

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 1, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at request of M. of A. Glick,
          Schimminger, Galef, Cymbrowitz, Otis, Jaffee, McDonald, Barron, Quart,
          De La Rosa, Lentol, Reyes, Mosley, Zebrowski, Cruz, Dickens,  Gunther,
          Griffin,  Taylor,  Ortiz, Lupardo, Rozic, Lifton, D. Rosenthal, Engle-
          bright, Bronson, Cahill, O'Donnell) -- read once and referred  to  the
          Committee on Judiciary

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the judiciary law, in relation to permitting elderly
          individuals to be excused from jury service;  and  providing  for  the
          repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 517 of  the  judiciary  law,  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph 3 to read as follows:
     3    (3)  An  application  for  excusal  from the whole of the time of jury
     4  service shall be granted hereunder upon the request of any person who is
     5  seventy years of age or over made to the commissioner of jurors, without
     6  any need to show  mental  or  physical  incapacity,  undue  hardship  or
     7  extreme inconvenience to the applicant.
     8    §  2.  Subdivision (c) of section 517 of the judiciary law, as amended
     9  by chapter 86 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
    10    (c) [In] Except as provided in paragraph three of subdivision  (a)  of
    11  this  section,  in determining whether an application for excusal should
    12  be granted, the commissioner or the court  shall  consider  whether  the
    13  applicant  has  a mental or physical condition that causes him or her to
    14  be incapable of performing jury service or there is any other fact indi-
    15  cates that attendance for jury service in accordance  with  the  summons
    16  would  cause undue hardship or extreme inconvenience to the applicant, a
    17  person under his or her care or supervision, or the  public.  Except  as
    18  provided  in paragraph two of subdivision (a) of this section, in deter-
    19  mining whether an application for postponement should  be  granted,  the
    20  commissioner  or  the  court shall be guided by standards promulgated by
    21  the chief administrator of the courts.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    23  deemed repealed 2 years after such date.

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