Bill Text: NY A06709 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to higher education [A06709 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06709-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6709--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 16, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 679-e of the educa-
     2  tion law, as amended by section 1 of part VV of chapter 56 of  the  laws
     3  of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
     4    b.  "Eligible  period"  means  the  [six-year] seven-year period after
     5  completion of the [third] second year and before the commencement of the
     6  tenth year of employment as an eligible attorney. For purposes  of  this
     7  section,  all  periods  of  time  during  which an admitted attorney was
     8  employed as an eligible attorney and all periods of time during which  a
     9  law  school  graduate  awaiting  admission to the New York state bar was
    10  employed by a prosecuting or criminal defense  agency  as  permitted  by
    11  section four hundred eighty-four of the judiciary law shall be combined.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Nothing in this act shall
    13  be  implemented  in a manner that diminishes the current award or status
    14  of eligible attorneys currently participating in the program.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10490-03-7
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