New York S 9952: Relates to removing mandatory retirement age for certain judges and justices

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S09952 Summary:

BILL NOS09952 

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SPONSORBOTTCHER

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Removes mandatory requirement age for certain judges and justices not otherwise required to retire by the state constitution.

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BILL NOS09952 

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04/17/2026REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 9952

 IN SENATE

 April 17, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. BOTTCHER -- 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 age limitation on term
 of judicial office

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 23 of the judiciary law, as added by chapter 649 of
 2 the laws of 1945, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 23. Age limitation on term of judicial office. No person shall hold
 4 the office of judge of the court of appeals, justice [or surrogate of
 5 any court, whether of record or not of record, except a justice of the
 6 peace of a town or police justice of a village,] of the supreme court,
 7 judge of the court of claims, judge of the county court, judge of the
 8 surrogate's court, judge of the family court, judge of a court for the
 9 city of New York established pursuant to section fifteen of article VI
 10 of the state constitution or judge of the district court longer than
 11 until and including the last day of December next after [he shall be]
 12 turning seventy years of age[, except that a judge or justice in office
 13 or elected or appointed to office at the effective date of this section,
 14 as to whom no provision limiting his right to hold office to the close
 15 of the year following his attaining the age of seventy years was appli-
 16 cable prior to the effective date of this section, may continue in
 17 office during the term for which he was elected or appointed].
 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06605-01-5

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