S10376 • 2025

Designates how certain parties may be named in a lawsuit; repealer

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Sponsor: Luis R. Sepúlveda
Last action: 2026-05-15
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Designates how certain parties may be named in a lawsuit; repealer

Designates how certain parties may be named in a lawsuit; repealer Designates how certain parties may be named in a lawsuit; repeals certain provisions on the substitution of parties.

What This Bill Does

Designates how certain parties may be named in a lawsuit; repealer Designates how certain parties may be named in a lawsuit; repeals certain provisions on the substitution of parties.

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Bill History

2026-05-15 Senate
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

Official Summary Text

Designates how certain parties may be named in a lawsuit; repealer
Designates how certain parties may be named in a lawsuit; repeals certain provisions on the substitution of parties.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          10376

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 15, 2026
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        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the civil practice law and rules, in relation to how
          certain parties shall be designated; and to  repeal  section  1019  of
          such law relating to the substitution of public officers

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

     1    Section 1. Section 1019  of  the  civil  practice  law  and  rules  is
     2  REPEALED.
     3    §  2.  Section  1023 of the civil practice law and rules is amended to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 1023. Public body or officer described by  official  title.  When  a
     6  public  officer,  body, board, commission or other public agency may sue
     7  or be sued in its official capacity, [it  may]  THAT  PERSON  OR  ENTITY
     8  SHALL be designated by [its] THE official title, subject to the power of
     9  the court to require names to be added.
    10    §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    11  ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to  all
    12  actions pending on or after such effective date.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15884-01-6