A8561 • 2025

Relates to the timeframe for guardianship hearings

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Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Last action: 2026-05-13
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the timeframe for guardianship hearings

Relates to the timeframe for guardianship hearings Increases the timeframe for guardianship hearings to thirty-five days.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the timeframe for guardianship hearings Increases the timeframe for guardianship hearings to thirty-five days.

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Bill History

2026-05-13 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-04-28 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
2025-05-20 Assembly
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

Official Summary Text

Relates to the timeframe for guardianship hearings
Increases the timeframe for guardianship hearings to thirty-five days.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8561

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      May 20, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the timeframe for
          a hearing in guardianship proceedings

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (b)  of  section  81.07  of  the
     2  mental  hygiene  law,  as amended by chapter 438 of the laws of 2004, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. set the date on which the order to show cause is heard no more than
     5  [twenty-eight] THIRTY-FIVE days from the date  of  the  signing  of  the
     6  order  to show cause. The court may for good cause shown set a date less
     7  than [twenty-eight] THIRTY-FIVE days from the date of the signing of the
     8  order to show cause. The date of the hearing may be adjourned  only  for
     9  good cause shown;
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13040-01-5