Bill Text: NY S00030 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for the establishment of a separate office of family court judge for the county of Essex.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S00030 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S00030-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 30 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STEC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to establishing a separate office of judge of the family court for the county of Essex The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 131 of the family court act is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision (w) to read as follows: 3 (w) There shall be a separate office of judge of the family court for 4 the county of Essex and the compensation payable for such separate 5 office of judge of the family court shall be the same as the compen- 6 sation payable to the judge of the county court of the county of Essex. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately except that the family 8 court judge for the county of Essex provided for in this act shall first 9 be elected at the general election to be held in November 2023 and shall 10 first take office January 1, 2024. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01695-01-3
