STATE OF NEW YORK
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5227--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 8, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the surrogate's court procedure act, in relation to
requirements for a petition for a judicial appointment of a standby
guardian of an infant; and to repeal subparagraph (ii) of paragraph
(b) of subdivision 3 of section 1726 of the surrogate's court proce-
dure act, relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (d) of subdivision 3 of
2 section 1726 of the surrogate's court procedure act, as amended by chap-
3 ter 632 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
4 (i) If the court finds that the [petitioner suffers from a progres-
5 sively chronic illness or an irreversibly fatal illness and that the]
6 interests of the infant will be promoted by the appointment of a standby
7 guardian of the person and/or property it must make a decree according-
8 ly.
9 § 2. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section
10 1726 of the surrogate's court procedure act is REPEALED.
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.
LBD10950-02-5
