 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2559
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 28, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. BAILEY, COMRIE, MONTGOMERY, PARKER, PERSAUD -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Finance
 
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to caseload relief
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1.  Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 832 of the exec-
     2  utive law, as added by section 12 of part VVV of chapter 59 of the  laws
     3  of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  Caseload relief. Develop and implement a written plan that estab-
     5  lishes  numerical  caseload/workload  standards  for  each  provider  of
     6  constitutionally  mandated  publicly  funded  representation in criminal
     7  cases for people who are unable to afford counsel, provided that  annual
     8  individual  numerical  caseload/workload  standards may not exceed three
     9  hundred sixty-seven misdemeanors or one hundred  thirty-eight  felonies,
    10  with  each  felony counting as two and sixty-six hundredths misdemeanors
    11  in mixed caseloads.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05502-01-9
Relates to caseload relief

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