New York Senate Bill S01269 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1269 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to requiring the chief administrator of the courts to submit a report on a plan to respond to the end of the moratorium on evictions 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 212 of the judiciary law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (z) to read as follows: 3 (z) Prepare, on or before the fifteenth day of July, two thousand 4 twenty-three, a report with a plan for the statewide court system's 5 administration of summary proceedings pursuant to article seven of the 6 real property actions and proceedings law, which are pending on such 7 date or which will be commenced upon the expiration of the moratorium. 8 Such plan shall respond to court and calendar congestion which will 9 result from the lapse of the moratorium on evictions. Such report shall 10 include, but not be limited to, consideration of the following: alter- 11 native space available for temporarily housing court proceedings; addi- 12 tional court hours including evenings; assignment of additional judges 13 or hearing officers to respond to increased case load issues; and coor- 14 dination with the office of temporary and disability assistance to 15 ensure participation to provide emergency rent regulation program 16 assistance for tenants and owners in addition to any other available 17 programs such as family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04758-01-3