S10139 • 2025

Relates to the number of judges in family court

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Sponsor: Erik Bottcher
Last action: 2026-05-12
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the number of judges in family court

Relates to the number of judges in family court Increases the number of family court judges in the city of New York to seventy-two; provides for two additional family court judges for each of Westchester and Rockland counties and an additional family court judge for each of Erie and Niagara counties.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the number of judges in family court Increases the number of family court judges in the city of New York to seventy-two; provides for two additional family court judges for each of Westchester and Rockland counties and an additional family court judge for each of Erie and Niagara counties.

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Bill History

2026-05-12 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-04-30 Senate
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

Official Summary Text

Relates to the number of judges in family court
Increases the number of family court judges in the city of New York to seventy-two; provides for two additional family court judges for each of Westchester and Rockland counties and an additional family court judge for each of Erie and Niagara counties.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          10139

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     April 30, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. BOTTCHER, WEBER -- 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  204 of the laws of 2024, 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-seven] SEVENTY-TWO judges[, effective January
     5  first, two thousand twenty-five]. There shall be  at  least  one  family
     6  court 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 (y) to read as follows:
     9    (Y) 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 immediately, provided, however, that
    16  the positions created by section two of this  act  shall  be  filled  by
    17  election  at  the  November 2027 election, for a term to commence on the
    18  first day of January, 2028, 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.
                                                                   LBD08363-02-6