Bill Text: NY S05998 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the number of supreme court justices in the thirteenth judicial district to ten.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S05998 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05998-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5998

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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 the number of justices
          of the supreme court in the thirteenth judicial district

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  13 of section 140-a of the judiciary law, as
     2  amended by chapter 365 of the laws  of  2022,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    13. Thirteenth district, [nine] ten.
     5    §  2.  Justice  Thomas  P. Aliotta, and his successor in office on the
     6  effective date of this act shall for the remainder of the term for which
     7  he or she was elected or appointed be a justice of the supreme court  in
     8  and for the thirteenth judicial district.
     9    §  3.  The  additional  justice of the supreme court in the thirteenth
    10  judicial district provided for by section one of this act shall first be
    11  elected at the general election to be held in November  2024  and  shall
    12  first take office January 1, 2025.
    13    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09790-01-3