Assembly Bill A5720

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness and increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients

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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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2021-A5720 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1176
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §679-e, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8644, S6668
2023-2024: A1568, S4511

2021-A5720 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness and increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients.

2021-A5720 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5720
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 24, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- 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] AGENCY, criminal defense agency, AND/OR
 NON-PROFIT INDIGENT CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES  CORPORATION  as  permitted  by
 section four hundred eighty-four of the judiciary law shall be combined.
   §  2.  Paragraph  d of subdivision 2 of section 679-e of the education
 law, as amended by section 1 of part VV of chapter 56  of  the  laws  of
 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   d.  "Year of qualified service" means the twelve month period measured
 from the anniversary of the attorney's employment as an eligible  attor-
 ney,  or  as  a  law  school graduate awaiting admission to the New York
 state bar employed  by  a  prosecuting  [or]  AGENCY,  criminal  defense
 agency,  AND/OR  NON-PROFIT INDIGENT CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION as
 permitted by section four hundred  eighty-four  of  the  judiciary  law,
 adjusted  for  any  interruption  in employment. Any period of temporary
 leave from service taken by an eligible attorney shall not be considered
 in the calculation of qualified service. However, the period  of  tempo-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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