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NY A03756

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/30/2025

Primary Sponsor

Jeffrey Dinowitz

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Origin

Assembly

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Raises the mandatory retirement age for judges, justices, and surrogates from 70 to 76 years old

  • Increases the maximum age for retired judges and justices serving under certified appointments from 76 to 80 years old

  • Limits retired judges/justices to one additional two-year certification term (previously allowed multiple terms) upon findings of continued mental and physical capacity and demonstrated need for services

  • Updates gendered language throughout the judiciary law to gender-neutral terms ("he" to "they")

  • Takes effect contingent upon passage of a corresponding constitutional amendment to Article 6, Section 25 of the New York State Constitution

Legislative Description

Raises the mandatory age of retirement for judges to seventy-six, with the ability of certain judges and justices to serve under a certified appointment until the age of eighty.

Last Action

referred to judiciary

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Judiciary1/30/2025

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