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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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