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A9144 • 2025

Prohibits parties to mediation or dispute resolution from recording such proceedings without the consent of all parties

Prohibits parties to mediation or dispute resolution from recording such proceedings without the consent of all parties

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Charles Lavine
Last action
2026-05-14
Official status
Passed Senate
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits parties to mediation or dispute resolution from recording such proceedings without the consent of all parties

Prohibits parties to mediation or dispute resolution from recording such proceedings without the consent of all parties Establishes an all-party consent requirement for any audio or video recording of mediation and court-annexed alternative dispute resolution proceedings.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits parties to mediation or dispute resolution from recording such proceedings without the consent of all parties Establishes an all-party consent requirement for any audio or video recording of mediation and court-annexed alternative dispute resolution proceedings.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-14 Senate

    SUBSTITUTED FOR S9286A

  2. 2026-05-14 Senate

    3RD READING CAL.571

  3. 2026-05-14 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  4. 2026-05-14 Senate

    RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

  5. 2026-03-16 Assembly

    PASSED ASSEMBLY

  6. 2026-03-16 Assembly

    DELIVERED TO SENATE

  7. 2026-03-16 Senate

    REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

  8. 2026-03-12 Assembly

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.298

  9. 2026-03-10 Assembly

    REPORTED

  10. 2026-03-04 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES

  11. 2026-02-26 Assembly

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO JUDICIARY

  12. 2026-02-26 Assembly

    PRINT NUMBER 9144A

  13. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

  14. 2025-10-17 Assembly

    REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

Official Summary Text

Prohibits parties to mediation or dispute resolution from recording such proceedings without the consent of all parties
Establishes an all-party consent requirement for any audio or video recording of mediation and court-annexed alternative dispute resolution proceedings.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          9144

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    October 17, 2025
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to prohib-
          iting undisclosed recording of mediation and court-annexed alternative
          dispute resolution proceedings

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

     1    Section 1. Section 4506 of the civil practice law and rules is amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-A. (A) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISIONS OF  THIS  SECTION
     4  AND  ARTICLE  TWO HUNDRED FIFTY OF THE PENAL LAW, NO PARTY TO ANY COURT-
     5  ANNEXED ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEEDING OR CONFERENCE OR MEDI-
     6  ATION MAY MAKE AN AUDIO AND/OR  VISUAL  RECORDING  OF  SUCH  PROCEEDING,
     7  WITHOUT  THE  EXPRESS  CONSENT  OF ALL PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING AND THE
     8  MEDIATOR.
     9    (B) NO RECORDING MADE IN VIOLATION OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE ADMIS-
    10  SIBLE IN ANY JUDICIAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, OR ARBITRAL PROCEEDING.
    11    (C) ANY VIOLATION OF THIS SUBDIVISION  SHALL  BE  DEEMED  CONTEMPT  OF
    12  COURT  AND  SHALL BE SUBJECT TO FINES OR OTHER SANCTION AS THE COURT MAY
    13  DIRECT.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13729-01-5