Assembly Bill A9014

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to expanding the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A9014 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2645
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §679-e, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A6709, S6619
2021-2022: A4388, S5623
2023-2024: A2227, S4606

2019-A9014 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness.

2019-A9014 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   9014
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. O'DONNELL, DICKENS, WRIGHT, PICHARDO, D. ROSEN-
   THAL, STECK, ROZIC, COLTON, TAYLOR,  DE LA ROSA,  SIMON,  ABINANTI  --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to the New York State
   district attorney and indigent legal services attorney  loan  forgive-
   ness program
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 679-e of the educa-
 tion law, as amended by section 1 of part VV of chapter 56 of  the  laws
 of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  "Eligible  period"  means  the  [six-year] SEVEN-YEAR period after
 completion of the [third] SECOND year and before the commencement of the
 tenth year of employment as an eligible attorney. For purposes  of  this
 section,  all  periods  of  time  during  which an admitted attorney was
 employed as an eligible attorney and all periods of time during which  a
 law  school  graduate  awaiting  admission to the New York state bar was
 employed by a prosecuting or criminal defense  agency  as  permitted  by
 section four hundred eighty-four of the judiciary law shall be combined.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Nothing in this act shall
 be  implemented  in a manner that diminishes the current award or status
 of eligible attorneys currently participating in the program.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08204-01-9

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