Bill Text: NY S01269 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Directs the chief administrator of the courts to develop a plan to address court calendar congestion upon the expiration of the eviction moratorium including additional temporary space for courts, additional hours, appointing additional judges to handle pending proceedings and coordination with OTDA.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S01269 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01269-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1269

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to  requiring  the  chief
          administrator of the courts to submit a report on a plan to respond to
          the end of the moratorium on evictions

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  212  of  the  judiciary  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (z) to read as follows:
     3    (z)  Prepare,  on  or  before  the fifteenth day of July, two thousand
     4  twenty-three, a report with a plan  for  the  statewide  court  system's
     5  administration  of  summary proceedings pursuant to article seven of the
     6  real property actions and proceedings law, which  are  pending  on  such
     7  date  or  which will be commenced upon the expiration of the moratorium.
     8  Such plan shall respond to court  and  calendar  congestion  which  will
     9  result  from the lapse of the moratorium on evictions. Such report shall
    10  include, but not be limited to, consideration of the following:   alter-
    11  native  space available for temporarily housing court proceedings; addi-
    12  tional court hours including evenings; assignment of  additional  judges
    13  or  hearing officers to respond to increased case load issues; and coor-
    14  dination with the office  of  temporary  and  disability  assistance  to
    15  ensure  participation  to  provide  emergency  rent  regulation  program
    16  assistance for tenants and owners in addition  to  any  other  available
    17  programs such as family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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