Bill Text: NY S06330 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands which judges may solemnize a marriage to include all federal circuit court of appeals judges and all federal district court judges.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2019-12-20 - VETOED MEMO.284 [S06330 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6330

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 5, 2019
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the domestic relations  law,  in  relation  to  who  may
          solemnize a marriage

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 11 of the domestic relations  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  633 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. A judge of [the] a federal circuit court of appeals [for the second
     5  circuit], a judge of a federal district court [for the northern,  south-
     6  ern,  eastern  or  western  district of New York], a judge of the United
     7  States court of international trade, a federal administrative law  judge
     8  presiding  in  this  state, a justice or judge of a court of the unified
     9  court system, a housing judge of the civil court  of  the  city  of  New
    10  York,  a  retired  justice  or  judge  of  the unified court system or a
    11  retired housing judge of the civil court of the city of New York  certi-
    12  fied pursuant to paragraph (k) of subdivision two of section two hundred
    13  twelve  of the judiciary law, the clerk of the appellate division of the
    14  supreme court in each judicial department,  a  retired  city  clerk  who
    15  served for more than ten years in such capacity in a city having a popu-
    16  lation of one million or more or a county clerk of a county wholly with-
    17  in cities having a population of one million or more; or,
    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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