New York Assembly Bill A01898 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1898 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WALSH, DeSTEFANO, BLANKENBUSH, McDONOUGH, MORI- NELLO, MILLER, J. M. GIGLIO, BYRNES, SIMPSON, DURSO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ANGELINO, GALLAHAN, PALMESANO, TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to the scheduling of a fact finding hearing after the issuance of a temporary order of protection in family court 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 828 of the family court act is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 3 (c) Upon issuing a temporary order of protection, the court shall 4 schedule a first appearance for purposes of a fact-finding hearing not 5 later than fourteen days after the temporary order of protection is 6 issued. If no hearing has been scheduled within fourteen days of the 7 issuance of the temporary order of protection, the temporary order of 8 protection issued pursuant to this section shall be deemed to have 9 expired and no longer be in effect. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02843-01-3