STATE OF NEW YORK
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5671
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 19, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR, DINOWITZ, SEAWRIGHT, STECK, TAYLOR --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to vacat-
ing arbitration awards on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph 1 of subdivision (b) of
2 section 7511 of the civil practice law and rules is amended and a new
3 subparagraph (v) is added to read as follows:
4 (iv) failure to follow the procedure of this article, unless the party
5 applying to vacate the award continued with the arbitration with notice
6 of the defect and without objection[.]; or
7 (v) the arbitrator evidenced a manifest disregard of the law in
8 rendering the award.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
10 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07903-01-5
