STATE OF NEW YORK
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10088
IN ASSEMBLY
May 3, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to creating a fourteenth
judicial district
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 70 of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 690
2 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 70. Judicial departments. The state is hereby divided into four
4 judicial departments. The first department shall consist of the counties
5 embraced within the first and twelfth judicial districts; the second
6 department shall consist of the counties embraced within the second,
7 ninth, tenth, eleventh [and], thirteenth and fourteenth judicial
8 districts; the third department shall consist of the counties embraced
9 within the third, fourth and sixth judicial districts; the fourth
10 department shall consist of the counties embraced within the fifth,
11 seventh and eighth judicial districts.
12 § 2. The opening paragraph and the ninth undesignated paragraph of
13 section 140 of the judiciary law, the opening paragraph as amended by
14 chapter 690 of the laws of 2007 and the ninth undesignated paragraph as
15 amended by chapter 10 of the laws of 1948, are amended and a new four-
16 teenth undesignated paragraph is added to read as follows:
17 The state is hereby divided into [thirteen] fourteen judicial
18 districts, pursuant to the provisions of the first section of the sixth
19 article of the constitution, which districts shall be arranged as
20 follows:
21 The ninth judicial district shall consist of the [counties] county of
22 Westchester[, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland];
23 The fourteenth judicial district shall consist of the counties of
24 Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, and Rockland. The creation of such fourteenth
25 district shall not affect or impair the rights, privileges or compen-
26 sation of any officer or employee of the supreme court in office on the
27 first day of January, two thousand twenty-five in the ninth judicial
28 district as theretofore constituted; each such officer or employee
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 employed in the counties of Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, and Rockland on
2 such date shall thereafter be an officer or employee for the fourteenth
3 judicial district and each such officer or employee employed in the
4 county of Westchester on such date shall thereafter be an officer or
5 employee for the ninth judicial district.
6 § 3. Section 140-a of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 749 of
7 the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
8 § 140-a. Number of supreme court justices in each judicial district.
9 The number of justices of the supreme court in each judicial district
10 shall be as follows:
11 1. First district, thirty-eight;
12 2. Second district, fifty-three;
13 3. Third district, seventeen;
14 4. Fourth district, fourteen;
15 5. Fifth district, nineteen;
16 6. Sixth district, eleven;
17 7. Seventh district, twenty;
18 8. Eighth district, twenty-eight;
19 9. Ninth district, [thirty-four] eighteen;
20 10. Tenth district, fifty-one;
21 11. Eleventh district, forty-four;
22 12. Twelfth district, twenty-nine;
23 13. Thirteenth district, nine;
24 14. Fourteenth district, eleven.
25 No person may serve in the office of justice of the supreme court
26 unless [he or she] such person has been admitted to practice law in the
27 state of New York for at least ten years as of the date [he or she] such
28 person commences the duties of office.
29 § 4. The following named justices or their successors in office on the
30 effective date of this act shall for the remainder of the terms for
31 which they were elected or appointed be justices of the supreme court in
32 and for the ninth judicial district as reconstituted and continued by
33 this act.
34 Hon. Robert M. DiBella
35 Hon. David F. Everett
36 Hon. Keri A. Fiore
37 Hon. William J. Giacomo
38 Hon. Hal B. Greenwald
39 Hon. James L. Hyer
40 Hon. Linda S. Jamieson
41 Hon. Nancy Quinn Koba
42 Hon. Joan B. Lefkowitz
43 Hon. Lewis Lubell
44 Hon. Janet C. Malone
45 Hon. Paul I. Marx
46 Hon. James McCarty
47 Hon. Anne E. Minihan
48 Hon. Alexandra D. Murphy
49 Hon. Robert S. Ondrovic
50 Hon. Amy S. Puerto
51 Hon. Thomas Quinones
52 Hon. Larry J. Schwartz
53 Hon. Rolf M. Thorsen
54 Hon. Gretchen M. Walsh
55 Hon. Charles D. Woo
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1 The following named justices or their successors in office on the
2 effective date of this act shall for the remainder of the terms for
3 which they were elected or appointed be justices of the supreme court in
4 and for the fourteenth judicial district as created and constituted by
5 this act. Any positions that were vacant on June 15, 2024 shall be
6 justices of the ninth judicial district.
7 Hon. Gina C. Capone
8 Hon. Victor G. Grossman
9 Hon. Christi J. Acker
10 Hon. Thomas R. Davis
11 Hon. Maria G. Rosa
12 Hon. Elena M. Goldberg-Velazquez
13 Hon. Sandra Sciortino
14 Hon. David J. Squirrell
15 Hon. Maria S. Vazquez-Doles
16 Hon. E. Loren Williams
17 Hon. David S. Zuckerman
18 Hon. Christie L. D'Alessio
19 Hon. Sherri L. Eisenpress
20 Hon. Hal B. Greenwald
21 Hon. Thomas Zugibe
22 § 5. If any provisions of any section of this act shall be held void
23 or unconstitutional, all other provisions and all other sections of this
24 act which are not expressly held to be void or unconstitutional shall
25 continue in full force and effect.
26 § 6. This act shall take effect January 1, 2025.
