S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4388
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 4, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL, DICKENS, PICHARDO, D. ROSENTHAL,
ROZIC, STECK, TAYLOR, COLTON, 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.
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