NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7019
SPONSOR: Woerner TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the judiciary law, in relation to increasing the number
of county court judges in certain jurisdictions
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This bill would create two additional county court justices in the
Unified Court System.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 would amend the judiciary law to add one additional county
court judge for each of Saratoga and Washington Counties.Section 2
states that this act shall take effect immediately provided that the
additional county court justices shall first be elected at the general
election to be held in November 2023 and shall take office January 1,
2024.
JUSTIFICATION:
Currently, there are insufficient judges to handle the growing case load
in Saratoga and Washington counties. This bill would help alleviate the
problem and thereby serve to make the Unified Court System more effi-
cient overall.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7019
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 10, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to increasing the number
of county court judges in certain jurisdictions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 41 and 53 of section 182 of the judiciary law,
2 subdivision 41 as added by chapter 699 of the laws of 1969 and as renum-
3 bered by chapter 751 of the laws of 1969 and subdivision 53 as amended
4 by chapter 293 of the laws of 1980, are amended to read as follows:
5 41. Saratoga, [one] two;
6 53. Washington, [two] three;
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
8 the additional county court justices provided for by section one of this
9 act shall first be elected at the general election to be held in Novem-
10 ber 2023 and shall take office January 1, 2024.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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