Bill Text: NY S08441 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the number of family court judges in Saratoga county from two to three.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-01 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S08441 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08441-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8441

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 1, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the family court act,  in  relation  to  increasing  the
          number of family court judges in Saratoga county

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (g) of section 131 of the family court act,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  572  of  the  laws  of 1984, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (g) There shall be a separate office of judge of the family court  for
     5  the  counties  of  Oswego  and Sullivan and the compensation payable for
     6  each such separate office of judge of the family court shall be  twenty-
     7  five  thousand  dollars per annum. In the county of Saratoga there shall
     8  be [an] two additional family court [judge] judges  and  the  number  of
     9  such judges now existing in such county is hereby increased accordingly.
    10  The compensation of such additional family court judge shall be the same
    11  as the compensation of the existing family court judge in such county.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14789-01-2