Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jul 31, 2013 |
signed chap.204 |
Jul 19, 2013 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 04, 2013 |
returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.765 substituted for s5004 |
Apr 24, 2013 |
referred to judiciary delivered to senate passed assembly |
Apr 18, 2013 |
advanced to third reading cal.170 |
Apr 16, 2013 |
reported |
Apr 09, 2013 |
referred to judiciary |
Assembly Bill A6553
Signed By Governor2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
SKARTADOS
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
Helene Weinstein
David Buchwald
Matthew Titone
Edward Hennessey
multi-Sponsors
Jeffrey Dinowitz
Michele Titus
Kenneth Zebrowski
2013-A6553 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-A6553 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6553 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y April 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SKARTADOS, WEINSTEIN, BUCHWALD, TITONE, HENNESSEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DINOWITZ, ZEBROWSKI -- (at request of the Office of Court Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules in relation to the discretionary retention of alternate jurors after final submission of the case THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 4106 of the civil practice law and rules, as amended by chapter 336 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows: S 4106. Alternate jurors. [Unless the court, in its discretion, orders otherwise, one] ONE or [two] MORE additional jurors, to be known as "alternate jurors", may be drawn upon the request of a party AND CONSENT OF THE COURT. Such ALTERNATE JUROR OR jurors shall be drawn at the same time, from the same source, in the same manner, and have the same quali- fications as [the] regular jurors, and be subject to the same examina- tions and challenges. They shall be seated with, take the oath with, and be treated in the same manner as the regular jurors[, except that after]. AFTER final submission of the case, the court [shall discharge the] MAY, IN ITS DISCRETION, RETAIN SUCH alternate JUROR OR jurors[. If] TO ENSURE AVAILABILITY IF NEEDED. AT ANY TIME, before OR AFTER the final submission of the case, IF a regular juror dies, or becomes ill, or [for any other reason] is unable to perform [his duty] THE DUTIES OF A JUROR, the court may order [him to be] THAT JUROR discharged and draw the name of an alternate, OR RETAINED ALTERNATE, IF ANY, who shall replace the discharged juror [in the jury box], and be treated as if [he] THAT JUROR had been selected as one of the regular jurors. ONCE DELIBERATIONS HAVE BEGUN, THE COURT MAY ALLOW AN ALTERNATE JUROR TO PARTICIPATE IN SUCH EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09911-01-3
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