New York S 1409: Directs the department of veterans' services to establish and operate an electronic database of the number of openings in each of the 4 state veterans' homes and the number of persons on the waiting lists

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Amd §105, UJCA; amd §31, Town L; amd §3-301, Vil L

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Relates to requiring certain town and village justices be admitted to practice law in the state; requires town and village justices in a town or village with a high arraignment volume be admitted to practice law in New York state for at least five years as of the date they commence the duties of office; provides the determination of a town or village with a high arraignment volume shall be made by the office of court administration in consultation with the division of criminal justice services.

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01/09/2025REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

01/27/20251ST REPORT CAL.185

01/28/20252ND REPORT CAL.

02/03/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/21/2025PASSED SENATE

05/21/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/22/2025referred to judiciary

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1409

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 9, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the uniform justice court act, the town law and the
 village law, in relation to requiring certain town and village
 justices be admitted to practice law in the state

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

 1 Section 1. Section 105 of the uniform justice court act is amended by
 2 adding a new subdivision (a-1) to read as follows:
 3 (a-1) Education. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
 4 contrary, no person may serve as a town or village justice in a town or
 5 village with a high arraignment volume unless they are an attorney
 6 admitted to practice law in this state for at least five years as of the
 7 date they commence the duties of office. For the purposes of this subdi-
 8 vision, "town or village with a high arraignment volume" shall mean the
 9 one hundred highest arraignment volumes in town and village courts in
 10 the state as determined by the office of court administration in consul-
 11 tation with the division of criminal justice services. The initial
 12 determination shall be based on the sum of arraignments from two thou-
 13 sand eighteen and two thousand nineteen. Subsequent determinations
 14 shall take place every ten years thereafter and shall use the sum of at
 15 least two years' data. Any change in the requirements for eligibility to
 16 serve as a town or village justice in such town or village shall take
 17 effect upon commencement of the next judicial term of office following
 18 the designation as a town or village with a high arraignment volume.
 19 Notwithstanding the foregoing, non-attorney justices in office as of the
 20 effective date of this subdivision shall remain eligible to serve as a
 21 justice for the court on which they currently sit.
 22 § 2. Section 31 of the town law is amended by adding a new subdivision
 23 2-a to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04265-01-5

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 1 2-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no
 2 person may serve as a town justice in a town with a high arraignment
 3 volume, as determined pursuant to subdivision (a-1) of section one
 4 hundred five of the uniform justice court act, unless they are an attor-
 5 ney admitted to practice law in this state for at least five years as of
 6 the date they commence the duties of office. Any change in the require-
 7 ments for eligibility to serve as a town justice in such town shall take
 8 effect upon commencement of the next judicial term of office following
 9 the designation as a town with a high arraignment volume. Notwithstand-
 10 ing the foregoing, non-attorney justices in office as of the effective
 11 date of this subdivision shall remain eligible to serve as a justice for
 12 the court on