Bill Text: NY S08288 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Exempts all personal injury or wrongful death actions from requiring a sum of money to be on the summons which will be the judgment in the event of a default.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S08288 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S08288-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8288 IN SENATE April 26, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- (at request of the Office of Court Admin- istration) -- 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 the content of a summons with notice in certain actions The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (b) of rule 305 of the civil practice law and 2 rules, as amended by chapter 528 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 (b) Summons and notice. If the complaint is not served with the 5 summons, the summons shall contain or have attached thereto a notice 6 stating the nature of the action and the relief sought, and, except in 7 an action for [medical malpractice] personal injury or wrongful death, 8 the sum of money for which judgment may be taken in case of default. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 10 pending actions. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14647-01-8
