STATE OF NEW YORK
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10375
IN SENATE
May 15, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to clari-
fying the need for expedited relief when seeking an order to show
cause
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (d) of rule 2214 of the civil practice law and
2 rules, as amended by chapter 752 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 (d) Order to show cause. The court in a proper case may grant an order
5 to show cause, to be served in lieu of a notice of motion, at a time and
6 in a manner specified therein. The party seeking the order to show cause
7 shall state in the application why such procedure is necessary. An order
8 to show cause against a state body or officers must be served in addi-
9 tion to service upon the defendant or respondent state body or officers
10 upon the attorney general by delivery to an assistant attorney general
11 at an office of the attorney general in the county in which venue of the
12 action is designated or if there is no office of the attorney general in
13 such county, at the office of the attorney general nearest such county.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
15 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15883-01-6
