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Assembly Bill A7515

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Stipulates the compensation an attorney assigned to represent a claimant on appeal to the appellate division in an unemployment insurance case may receive

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2015-A7515 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง538, Lab L

2015-A7515 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Stipulates the compensation an attorney assigned to represent a claimant on appeal to the appellate division in an unemployment insurance case may receive.

2015-A7515 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7515

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 14, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TITUS  -- (at request of the Office of Court
  Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to fees of attorneys assigned
  to represent claimants on appeals to the appellate division  in  unem-
  ployment insurance cases

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of section 538 of the  labor
law,  as  amended by chapter 831 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read
as follows:
  (d) In addition to any fee which may be allowed by  the  appeal  board
for services rendered to the claimant, an attorney representing a claim-
ant  shall  [be  entitled  to  a  fee] RECEIVE COMPENSATION AT A RATE OF
SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS PER HOUR  AND  SUCH  COMPENSATION  SHALL  not  [to]
exceed  the  sum  of  [five  hundred] TWO THOUSAND dollars and necessary
printing and other disbursements in each of the following cases: (1)  On
an  appeal from a decision of the appeal board in favor of the claimant.
(2) On a motion for leave to appeal to the court of appeals from a deci-
sion of the appellate division of the supreme court which relates  to  a
decision  of the appeal board in favor of the claimant. (3) On an appeal
to the court of appeals from a decision of the appellate division of the
supreme court which relates to a decision of the appeal board  in  favor
of  the  claimant.  When  a  claimant takes such appeal, the court shall
allow a fee and disbursements only if it finds the appeal to  have  been
meritorious.
  S  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately; provided, however, it
shall apply only to appeals commenced on or after such effective date.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08415-01-5

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