STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6492 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to the number of judg- es in family court The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by chapter 2 365 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New York 4 shall consist of [sixty] seventy-two judges[, effective January first, 5 two thousand twenty-three]. There shall be at least one family court 6 judge resident in each county of the city of New York. 7 § 2. Section 131 of the family court act is amended by adding a new 8 subdivision (w) to read as follows: 9 (w) There shall be two additional family court judges for each of 10 Westchester and Rockland counties and an additional family court judge 11 for each of Erie and Niagara counties. The compensation of each such 12 additional family court judge shall be the same as the compensation paid 13 to each existing family court judge in the county for which it is estab- 14 lished. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect on immediately, provided, however, 16 that the positions created by section two of this act shall be filled by 17 election at the November 8, 2023 election, for a term to commence on the 18 first day of January, 2024, as if such vacancy occurred on the effective 19 date of this act. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09493-01-3