A06025 Summary:
| BILL NO | A06025 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Zaccaro |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Add §511, Judy L | |
| Exempts from jury duty prospective jurors who are age seventy-five or older who make a request to be exempt. | |
A06025 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6025 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 25, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZACCARO -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to exempting senior citi- zens from jury duty The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The judiciary law is amended by adding a new section 511 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 511. Senior citizens exempt from jury duty. 1. Upon claiming 4 exemption therefrom, a prospective juror who is seventy-five years of 5 age or older, shall be exempt from jury duty. 6 2. The chief administrator of the courts shall prescribe a form to be 7 used therefor. Any qualified person may file such form with the appro- 8 priate commissioner of jurors who shall thereupon exempt such person 9 from jury duty. Such exemption shall remain valid unless such exempted 10 person requests to be reinstated as a prospective juror in a form and 11 manner as promulgated by the chief administrator of the courts. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 13 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 14 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 15 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 16 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10044-01-5