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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         2374--A
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 15, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. LANCMAN, JEFFRIES, LENTOL, ARROYO, ESPAILLAT,
          WRIGHT, HIKIND, PEOPLES, CAMARA, ZEBROWSKI,  KELLNER,  FARRELL,  COOK,
          GLICK,  McENENY,  GOTTFRIED,  DelMONTE,  JAFFEE,  SCHROEDER,  PERALTA,
          COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  LATIMER  --  read  once  and
          referred  to  the Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill

          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the judiciary law, in relation to enacting the "jury
          pool fair representation act"
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "jury pool
     2  fair representation act".
     3    § 2. The judiciary law is amended by adding a new section 528 to  read
     4  as follows:
     5    §  528.  Collection  of demographic data.   The commissioner of jurors
     6  shall collect demographic data for jurors who present for jury  service,
     7  including each juror's race and/or ethnicity, age and sex, and the chief
     8  administrator of the courts shall submit the data in an annual report to

     9  the  governor,  the  speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of
    10  the senate and the chief judge of the court of appeals.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01061-02-9