 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced by Sens. BAILEY, COMRIE, JACKSON, PARKER, PERSAUD, SALAZAR --
          read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Judiciary
 
        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.
                                                                   LBD02122-01-5
Relates to caseload relief

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