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Sponsors
11 Co-sponsors
30 Multi-sponsors
- Jonathan Bing
- James F. Brennan
- Kevin Cahill
- Ann-Margaret Carrozza
- Vivian Cook
- Steven Cymbrowitz
- Francine DelMonte
- Adriano Espaillat
- Herman D. Farrell
- Timothy P. Gordon
- Richard Gottfried
- Carl Heastie
- Janele Hyer-Spencer
- Ellen C. Jaffee
- Micah Kellner
- David Koon
- Donna Lupardo
- Margaret Markey
- Nettie Mayersohn
- John McEneny
- Joan Millman
- Catherine Nolan
- Thomas F. O'Mara
- Crystal Peoples-Stokes
- Robert Reilly
- Naomi Rivera
- Teresa Sayward
- Mark J.F. Schroeder
- Robert Sweeney
- Michele Titus
History
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 8957a
- Amend and recommit to judiciary
- Referred to judiciary
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to judiciary
Companion bill
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Provides for additional family court judges in the city of New York and certain counties throughout New York state
In Assembly Committee · Ways And Means · Sponsor John L. Sampson
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:A8957A
Title of bill
An act to amend the family court act, in relation to judges of the family court
This measure is being introduced at the request of the Chief Judge of the State.
This measure would amend the Family Court Act to establish 21 new Family Court judgeships, as follows:
* in New York City, seven new judgeships, effective January 1, 2011.
* outside New York City, one new judgeship in each of the following fourteen counties, effective January 1, 2011 (with each judgeship first being filled at the November 2010 general election): Albany, Broome, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Monroe, Nassau, Niagara, Oneida, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Schenectady, Suffolk and Westchester.
While the past several decades have seen increasing legislative recognition of the needs of children and families in New York, in the form of landmark statutes promoting child permanency and enhancing family justice, these salutary efforts have not been matched by provision for a corps of Family Court judgeships sufficiently large to meet the greater caseloads and complexity of proceedings in our courts today. The consequences of this neglect, if not attended to soon, will be disturbing, indeed heartbreaking - and utterly unacceptable: justice delayed for children and families whose safety and welfare can require immediate intervention, children growing up in foster care instead of permanent homes, children graduating from Family Court to Criminal Court instead of high school and college, missed opportunities and spiraling inefficiency for juvenile justice and legal defense agencies.
This measure will go a long way toward redressing this unintended and lamentable condition. If enacted, it would represent the first major infusion of new Family Court Judges in New York in over three decades and begin to provide the State's family justice system with the resources needed to protect the most vulnerable members of our community.
This measure would take effect immediately.
Legislative History: None. New proposal.
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