Bill Text: NY S03263 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the vacating of an arbitration award on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-04 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S03263 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03263-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3263

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to  vacat-
          ing arbitration awards on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph  1  of  subdivision  (b)  of
     2  section  7511  of  the civil practice law and rules is amended and a new
     3  subparagraph (v) is added to read as follows:
     4    (iv) failure to follow the procedure of this article, unless the party
     5  applying to vacate the award continued with the arbitration with  notice
     6  of the defect and without objection[.]; or
     7    (v)  the  arbitrator  evidenced  a  manifest  disregard  of the law in
     8  rendering the award.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00039-01-3