STATE OF NEW YORK
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8085--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the timeframe for
a hearing in guardianship proceedings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (b) of section 81.07 of the
2 mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 438 of the laws of 2004, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1. set the date on which the order to show cause is heard no more than
5 [twenty-eight] thirty-five days from the date of the signing of the
6 order to show cause. The court may for good cause shown set a date less
7 than [twenty-eight] thirty-five days from the date of the signing of the
8 order to show cause. The date of the hearing may be adjourned only for
9 good cause shown;
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13155-02-5
