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S 7467: Increases the number of family court judges in the city of New York to seventy-two; provides for two additional family court judges for each of Westchester and Rockland counties and an additional family court judge for each of Erie and Niagara counties.
What S 7467 does, verified September 28, 2025
Increases the number of family court judges in the city of New York to seventy-two; provides for two additional family court judges for each of Westchester and Rockland counties and an additional family court judge for each of Erie and Niagara counties.
Bill journey
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4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: REFERRED TO JUDICIARY (2025-04-17)Alert me
Quick answers about S 7467
- What is the current status of S 7467?
- As of September 28, 2025, S 7467 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on April 17, 2025, was "REFERRED TO JUDICIARY".
- Did S 7467 pass?
- Not yet. S 7467 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote S 7467, and where is it now?
- S 7467 was authored by Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal with 1 coauthor. Its committee of record is Senate Judiciary.
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| Apr. 17, 2025 | REFERRED TO JUDICIARY |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, April 17, 2025 · 325 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7467 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 17, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, WEBER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judici- ary AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to the number of judg- es in family court The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 121 of the family court act, as amended by chapter 2 204 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 121. Number of judges. The family court within the city of New York 4 shall consist of [sixty-seven] seventy-two judges[, effective January5first, two thousand twenty-five]. There shall be at least one family 6 court judge resident in each county of the city of New York. 7 § 2. Section 131 of the family court act is amended by adding a new 8 subdivision (y) to read as follows: 9 (y) There shall be two additional family court judges for each of 10 Westchester and Rockland counties and an additional family court judge 11 for each of Erie and Niagara counties. The compensation of each such 12 additional family court judge shall be the same as the compensation paid 13 to each existing family court judge in the county for which it is estab- 14 lished. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that 16 the positions created by section two of this act shall be filled by 17 election at the November 4, 2025 election, for a term to commence on the 18 first day of January, 2026, as if such vacancy occurred on the effective 19 date of this act. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08363-01-5
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