Provides for additional family court judges in the city of New York and in the counties of Albany, Broome, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Monroe, Nassau, Niagara, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Schenectady, Suffolk and Westchester.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5968--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 19, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. SAMPSON, MONTGOMERY, THOMPSON -- (at request of the
Office of Court Administration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted
to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to judges of the fami-
ly court
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by chapter
2 209 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New York
4 shall consist of [forty-four judges and, as of July first, nineteen
5 hundred ninety, shall consist of forty-five judges and, as of April
6 first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, shall consist of forty-seven]
7 fifty-four judges, effective January first, two thousand eleven. [At
8 least one of the persons appointed to the office of judge of the family
9 court created by this section, shall be a resident of the county of
10 Richmond and hereafter there] There shall be at least one family court
11 judge resident in each county of the city of New York. [The amount of
12 compensation for such new family court judges shall be equal to the
13 compensation payable to existing family court judges in the city of New
14 York.]
15 § 2. Section 131 of the family court act is amended by adding a new
16 subdivision (u) to read as follows:
17 (u) There shall be an additional family court judge for each of the
18 following counties: Albany, Broome, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Monroe,
19 Nassau, Niagara, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Schenectady, Suffolk and
20 Westchester. The compensation of each such additional family court judge
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 shall be the same as the compensation paid to each existing family court
2 judge in the county for which it is established.
3 § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2011; provided, however,
4 the additional family court judges provided for by section two of this
5 act shall first be elected at the general election to be held in Novem-
6 ber 2010 and shall first take office January 1, 2011.