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A 5671: Authorizes the vacating of an arbitration award on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law.
What A 5671 does, verified January 11, 2026
The bill aims to amend the civil practice law and rules to allow for the vacation of arbitration awards in cases where an arbitrator has shown a manifest disregard of the law. This means that if an arbitrator has clearly ignored or misinterpreted the law during the arbitration process, the award can be challenged and potentially overturned. The bill also requires that the party challenging the award must have continued with the arbitration process without objection after being notified of the defect. The changes will take effect 108 days after the bill becomes a law.
Bill journey
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2In CommitteePending
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4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to judiciary (2026-01-07)Alert me
Quick answers about A 5671
- What is the current status of A 5671?
- As of January 11, 2026, A 5671 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on January 7, 2026, was "referred to judiciary".
- Did A 5671 pass?
- Not yet. A 5671 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote A 5671, and where is it now?
- A 5671 was authored by Asm. Jenifer Rajkumar with 4 coauthors. Its committee of record is Assembly Judiciary.
Author and sponsors
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | referred to judiciary |
| Feb. 19, 2025 | referred to judiciary |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 19, 2025 · 218 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5671 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 19, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR, DINOWITZ, SEAWRIGHT, STECK, TAYLOR -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to vacat- ing arbitration awards on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph 1 of subdivision (b) of 2 section 7511 of the civil practice law and rules is amended and a new 3 subparagraph (v) is added to read as follows: 4 (iv) failure to follow the procedure of this article, unless the party 5 applying to vacate the award continued with the arbitration with notice 6 of the defect and without objection[.]; or 7 (v) the arbitrator evidenced a manifest disregard of the law in 8 rendering the award. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 10 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07903-01-5
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