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Assembly Bill A696

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a public service job

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2023-A696 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3262
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §468-a, Judy L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S987
2019-2020: A6085, S3819
2021-2022: A1862, S719
2025-2026: S7439

2023-A696 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a public service job.

2023-A696 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    696
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, TAYLOR, THIELE, SAYEGH, STIRPE, JOYNER,
   SIMON, BUTTENSCHON, WILLIAMS, COOK, REYES, CRUZ, STERN, WEPRIN, STECK,
   DARLING -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the judiciary law, in relation to waiving the biennial
   attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a
   public service job
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of section 468-a of the judiciary law, as
 amended by section 9 of part K of chapter 56 of the  laws  of  2010,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   4.  The  biennial registration fee shall be three hundred seventy-five
 dollars, sixty dollars of which shall be allocated to and  be  deposited
 in  a fund established pursuant to the provisions of section ninety-sev-
 en-t of the state finance law, fifty dollars of which shall be allocated
 to and shall  be  deposited  in  a  fund  established  pursuant  to  the
 provisions  of  section ninety-eight-b of the state finance law, twenty-
 five dollars of which shall be allocated  to  be  deposited  in  a  fund
 established  pursuant to the provisions of section ninety-eight-c of the
 state finance law, and the remainder of which shall be deposited in  the
 attorney  licensing  fund.  Such fee shall be required of every attorney
 who is admitted and licensed to practice law in this state,  whether  or
 not  the  attorney  is  engaged  in the practice of law in this state or
 elsewhere, except attorneys who certify to the  chief  administrator  of
 the courts that they have EITHER retired from the practice of law OR ARE
 EMPLOYED IN A PUBLIC SERVICE JOB AS DEFINED BY 20 U.S.C. 1087E(M)(3)(B).
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on  its effective date are authorized to be made on or before
 such date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00727-01-3

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