S 862: Relates to requiring limits on the number of cases a public defender may be assigned in any given year.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 862 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BAILEY, COMRIE, JACKSON, PARKER, PERSAUD, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to caseload relief The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 832 of the exec- 2 utive law, as added by section 12 of part VVV of chapter 59 of the laws 3 of 2017, is amended to read as follows: 4 (b) Caseload relief. Develop and implement a written plan that estab- 5 lishes numerical caseload/workload standards for each provider of 6 constitutionally mandated publicly funded representation in criminal 7 cases for people who are unable to afford counsel, provided that annual 8 individual numerical caseload/workload standards may not exceed three 9 hundred sixty-seven misdemeanors or one hundred thirty-eight felonies, 10 with each felony counting as two and sixty-six hundredths misdemeanors 11 in mixed caseloads. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02122-01-5