S8192 • 2025

Relates to the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in districts and courts

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Sponsor: Cordell Cleare
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in districts and courts

Relates to the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in districts and courts Directs the legislature to ensure that the number of judges and justices in districts and courts is sufficient; directs the chief administrator of the courts to report on the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in each court and to make recommendations on such numbers.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in districts and courts Directs the legislature to ensure that the number of judges and justices in districts and courts is sufficient; directs the chief administrator of the courts to report on the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in each court and to make recommendations on such numbers.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-03-23 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-03-19 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-03-18 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.570
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
2025-06-13 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-06-04 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-05-29 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-05-28 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1428
2025-05-20 Senate
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

Official Summary Text

Relates to the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in districts and courts
Directs the legislature to ensure that the number of judges and justices in districts and courts is sufficient; directs the chief administrator of the courts to report on the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in each court and to make recommendations on such numbers.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8192

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 20, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to the sufficiency of the
          number of judges and justices in districts and courts

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

     1    Section  1. The judiciary law is amended by adding a new section 219-f
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 219-F. SUFFICIENCY OF NUMBER OF JUDGES AND JUSTICES IN DISTRICTS AND
     4  COURTS. IN EXERCISING ITS POWERS PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION  B  OF  SECTION
     5  SIX  OF  ARTICLE  SIX OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE LEGISLATURE SHALL SEEK TO
     6  ENSURE THAT EACH  DISTRICT  AND  COURT  THEREIN  SHALL  HAVE  SUFFICIENT
     7  NUMBERS  OF  JUDGES  AND JUSTICES TO PERFORM ITS FUNCTIONS IN A THOROUGH
     8  AND EFFICIENT MANNER, CONSIDERING THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS RESIDING  IN
     9  A  GIVEN JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE NUMBER OF CASES FILED IN EACH COURT, THE
    10  COMPLEXITY OF SUCH CASES, THE EXTENT OF DELAYS  IN  THE  DISPOSITION  OF
    11  CASES  IN  EACH COURT, AND ANY OTHER FACTORS USED BY RECOGNIZED NATIONAL
    12  OR STATE  AUTHORITIES  WHO  STUDY  THE  PROPER  ALLOCATION  OF  JUDICIAL
    13  RESOURCES.
    14    §  2.  Paragraph  (j) of subdivision 1 of section 212 of the judiciary
    15  law, as added by chapter 156 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read  as
    16  follows:
    17    (j)  Collect,  compile  and  publish  statistics  and  other data with
    18  respect to the unified court system IN ORDER TO ASSIST  THE  LEGISLATURE
    19  IN  PERFORMING  ITS FUNCTIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINETEEN-F
    20  OF THIS ARTICLE and submit annually, on or before the fifteenth  day  of
    21  March, to the legislature and the governor a report of [his] SUCH ADMIN-
    22  ISTRATOR'S  activities  and the state of the unified court system during
    23  the preceding year.  SUCH REPORT SHALL INCLUDE  RECOMMENDATIONS  ON  THE
    24  NUMBER  OF  JUDGES  AND JUSTICES NEEDED IN EACH COURT, WHICH RECOMMENDA-
    25  TIONS SHALL BE ACTED UPON IN SUCH MANNER AS THE LEGISLATURE MAY DIRECT.
    26    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    27  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04224-01-5