S7819 • 2025

Relates to proceedings for appointment of a guardian for personal needs or property management

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Sponsor: Cordell Cleare
Last action: 2026-06-04
Official status: Senate Floor Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to proceedings for appointment of a guardian for personal needs or property management

Relates to proceedings for appointment of a guardian for personal needs or property management Enacts "Karilyn's law"; provides that the court set the date for proceedings relating to family visitation under a guardianship petition for not more than ten days from the signing of the order to show cause; provides that visitation shall be a rebuttable presumption.

What This Bill Does

Relates to proceedings for appointment of a guardian for personal needs or property management Enacts "Karilyn's law"; provides that the court set the date for proceedings relating to family visitation under a guardianship petition for not more than ten days from the signing of the order to show cause; provides that visitation shall be a rebuttable presumption.

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Bill History

2026-06-04 Senate
COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-06-04 Senate
ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1719
2026-06-04 Senate
SUBSTITUTED BY A3598
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH
2025-05-21 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO JUDICIARY
2025-05-09 Senate
REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Relates to proceedings for appointment of a guardian for personal needs or property management
Enacts "Karilyn's law"; provides that the court set the date for proceedings relating to family visitation under a guardianship petition for not more than ten days from the signing of the order to show cause; provides that visitation shall be a rebuttable presumption.

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

                                          7819

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       May 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. CLEARE, PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to  proceedings  for
          appointment  of  a  guardian  or other caretaker for personal needs or
          property management

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

     1    Section  1.  Short title.  This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Karilyn's law".
     3    § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (b) of section  81.07  of  the  mental
     4  hygiene  law,  as amended by chapter 438 of the laws of 2004, is amended
     5  to read as follows:
     6    1. set the date on which the order to show cause is heard no more than
     7  twenty-eight days from the date of the signing  of  the  order  to  show
     8  cause.  The  court may for good cause shown set a date less than twenty-
     9  eight days from the date of the signing of  the  order  to  show  cause;
    10  PROVIDED  THAT  WHERE THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE CONCERNS FAMILY VISITATION
    11  RIGHTS, THE COURT SHALL SET THE DATE ON WHICH THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE IS
    12  HEARD AND FOR WHICH A TEMPORARY ORDER WILL BE ISSUED NO  MORE  THAN  TEN
    13  DAYS  FROM  THE  DATE  OF THE SIGNING OF THE  ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.  UPON
    14  SUCH APPLICATION FOR VISITATION, THERE SHALL BE A REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION
    15  IN FAVOR OF VISITATION. VISITATION SHALL ONLY BE DENIED UPON  CLEAR  AND
    16  CONVINCING  EVIDENCE THAT IS NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE WARD, SUCH
    17  DETERMINATIONS SHALL BE ON THE RECORD OR BY WRITTEN  DECISION.    IT  IS
    18  FURTHER  WITHIN  THE  COURT'S DISCRETION TO PROVIDE WHATEVER LIMITATIONS
    19  DEEMED  APPROPRIATE,  INCLUDING,  BUT   NOT   LIMITED   TO,   SUPERVISED
    20  VISITATION.    The  date  of  the hearing may be adjourned only for good
    21  cause shown;
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06631-01-5