S 549: Provides for the establishment of a separate office of family court judge for the county of Essex.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 549 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STEC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to establishing a separate office of judge of the family court for the county of Essex The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 131 of the family court act is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision (y) to read as follows: 3 (y) There shall be a separate office of judge of the family court for 4 the county of Essex and the compensation payable for such separate 5 office of judge of the family court shall be the same as the compen- 6 sation payable to the judge of the county court of the county of Essex. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately except that the family 8 court judge for the county of Essex provided for in this act shall first 9 be elected at the general election to be held in November 2025 and shall 10 first take office January 1, 2026. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02345-01-5