Directs the chief administrator of the courts to develop a plan to address court calendar congestion upon the expiration of the eviction moratorium including additional temporary space for courts, additional hours, appointing additional judges to handle pending proceedings and coordination with OTDA.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1269
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to requiring the chief
administrator of the courts to submit a report on a plan to respond to
the end of the moratorium on evictions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 212 of the judiciary law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (z) to read as follows:
3 (z) Prepare, on or before the fifteenth day of July, two thousand
4 twenty-three, a report with a plan for the statewide court system's
5 administration of summary proceedings pursuant to article seven of the
6 real property actions and proceedings law, which are pending on such
7 date or which will be commenced upon the expiration of the moratorium.
8 Such plan shall respond to court and calendar congestion which will
9 result from the lapse of the moratorium on evictions. Such report shall
10 include, but not be limited to, consideration of the following: alter-
11 native space available for temporarily housing court proceedings; addi-
12 tional court hours including evenings; assignment of additional judges
13 or hearing officers to respond to increased case load issues; and coor-
14 dination with the office of temporary and disability assistance to
15 ensure participation to provide emergency rent regulation program
16 assistance for tenants and owners in addition to any other available
17 programs such as family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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