Directs the chief administrator of the courts to develop a plan to address court calendar congestion upon the expiration of the eviction moratorium including additional temporary space for courts, additional hours, appointing additional judges to handle pending proceedings and coordination with OTDA.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8113
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 11, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to requiring the chief
administrator of the courts to submit a report on a plan to respond to
the end of the moratorium on evictions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 212 of the judiciary law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (z) to read as follows:
3 (z) Prepare, on or before the fifteenth day of July, two thousand
4 twenty-one, a report with a plan for the statewide court system's admin-
5 istration of summary proceedings pursuant to article seven of the real
6 property actions and proceedings law, which are pending on such date or
7 which will be commenced upon the expiration of the moratorium. Such plan
8 shall respond to court and calendar congestion which will result from
9 the lapse of the moratorium on evictions. Such report shall include, but
10 not be limited to, consideration of the following: alternative space
11 available for temporarily housing court proceedings; additional court
12 hours including evenings; assignment of additional judges or hearing
13 officers to respond to increased case load issues; and coordination with
14 the office of temporary and disability assistance to ensure partic-
15 ipation to provide emergency rent regulation program assistance for
16 tenants and owners in addition to any other available programs such as
17 family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11718-02-1
