S 2532: Eliminates filing fees for wills filed for safekeeping in the surrogate's court.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2532 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the surrogate's court procedure act, in relation to eliminating certain will filing fees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 2402 of the surrogate's court 2 procedure act, as amended by section 30 of part J of chapter 62 of the 3 laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows: 4 9. For filing: 5 Fee Rate 6 (i) a demand for trial by jury in any proceeding, SCPA 7 502 .................................................... $150.00 8 (ii) objections to the probate of a will SCPA 1410 ............ 150.00 9 (iii) a note of issue in any proceeding ........................ 45.00 10 (iv) objection or answer in any action or proceeding 11 other than probate ..................................... 75.00 12 (v) [a will for safekeeping pursuant to section 2507 of 13 this act except that the court in any county may 14 reduce or dispense with such fee ....................... 45.00 15 (vi)] a bond, including any additional bond: 16 less than $10,000 ...................................... 20.00 17 $10,000 and over ....................................... 30.00 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 19 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06258-01-5