STATE OF NEW YORK
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7213
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 4, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 the number of justices
of the supreme court in the thirteenth judicial district
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 140-a of the judiciary law, as
2 amended by chapter 749 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 13. Thirteenth district, [nine] ten.
5 § 2. Justice Thomas P. Aliotta, and his successor in office on the
6 effective date of this act shall for the remainder of the term for which
7 such justice was elected or appointed be a justice of the supreme court
8 in and for the thirteenth judicial district.
9 § 3. The additional justice of the supreme court in the thirteenth
10 judicial district provided for by section one of this act shall first be
11 elected at the general election to be held in November 2026 and shall
12 first take office January 1, 2027.
13 § 4. 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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