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S 2305 NY
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Relates to certain judgments by confession

NY · session 2025-2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Jan 16, 2025

Latest action (May 13, 2026) REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

Summary

This bill amends New York's Civil Practice Law and Rules to prohibit judgments by confession for consumer debts and for debts with a principal amount less than $5,000,000. A judgment by confession is normally entered without a court action based on the defendant's affidavit. The bill prevents such judgments from being entered on debts incurred by individuals for personal, family, household, consumer, or non-business purposes, as well as on any debt originally less than $5 million. The bill takes effect immediately and applies to judgments by confession entered after the effective date.

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Official abstract

Prohibits the entry of a judgment by confession on amounts due from one or more individuals for personal, family, household, consumer or non-business purposes and on a debt incurred if the principal amount of such debt was less than $5,000,000.

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Action history (16)

  1. Jan 16, 2025 REFERRED TO JUDICIARY · upper
  2. Jan 27, 2025 1ST REPORT CAL.186 · upper
  3. Jan 28, 2025 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
  4. Feb 3, 2025 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
  5. Mar 25, 2025 PASSED SENATE · upper
  6. Mar 25, 2025 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
  7. Mar 25, 2025 REFERRED TO JUDICIARY · lower
  8. Jan 7, 2026 DIED IN ASSEMBLY · lower
  9. Jan 7, 2026 RETURNED TO SENATE · lower
  10. Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO JUDICIARY · upper
  11. Apr 21, 2026 1ST REPORT CAL.747 · upper
  12. Apr 22, 2026 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
  13. Apr 27, 2026 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
  14. May 13, 2026 PASSED SENATE · upper
  15. May 13, 2026 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
  16. May 13, 2026 REFERRED TO JUDICIARY · lower

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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S02305 Summary: BILL NO S02305 &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A07545

&nbsp SPONSOR KRUEGER &nbsp COSPNSR &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Amd §3218, CPLR &nbsp Prohibits the entry of a judgment by confession on amounts due from one or more individuals for personal, family, household, consumer or non-business purposes and on a debt incurred if the principal amount of such debt was less than $5,000,000.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

2305

2025-2026 Regular Sessions

IN SENATE

January 16, 2025 ___________

Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to certain judgments by confession

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 3218 of the civil practice law 2 and rules, as amended by chapter 311 of the laws of 1963, paragraph 1 as 3 amended by chapter 831 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as 4 follows: 5 (a) Affidavit of defendant. Except as provided in section thirty-two 6 hundred one of this article and subdivision (e) of this section , a judg- 7 ment by confession may be entered, without an action, either for money 8 due or to become due, or to secure the plaintiff against a contingent 9 liability [ in ] on behalf of the defendant, or both, upon an affidavit 10 executed by the defendant[ ; ] : 11 1. stating the sum for which judgment may be entered, authorizing the 12 entry of judgment, and stating the county where the defendant resides 13 [ and, if applicable, stating that the interest rate for consumer debt 14 pursuant to section five thousand four of this chapter applies ]; 15 2. if the judgment to be confessed is for money due or to become due, 16 stating concisely the facts out of which the debt arose and showing that 17 the sum confessed is justly due or to become due; and 18 3. if the judgment to be confessed is for the purpose of securing the 19 plaintiff against a contingent liability, stating concisely the facts 20 constituting the liability and showing that the sum confessed does not 21 exceed the amount of the liability. 22 § 2. Section 3218 of the civil practice law and rules is amended by 23 adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows: 24 (e) Prohibition on certain judgments by confession. No judgment by 25 confession may be entered on:

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05691-01-5

S. 2305 2

1 1. any amount due from one or more individuals for personal, family, 2 household, consumer, or other non-business purposes; or 3 2. any amount due on a debt incurred by any person for any purpose if 4 the principal amount of such debt was less than five million dollars at 5 the time the debt was incurred. 6 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and apply to judgments by 7 confession entered upon affidavits filed on or after such effective 8 date.

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