Bill Text: NY A00357 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the New York state district attorney and indigent legal services attorney loan forgiveness program; allows absence because of uniformed service, maternity/paternity, FMLA, or due to compensable injury to be creditable time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A00357 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00357-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           357

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BRONSON, LUNSFORD -- 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:

     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 period after completion of the
     5  third year and before the commencement of the tenth year  of  employment
     6  as  an  eligible  attorney. For purposes of this section, all periods of
     7  time during which an admitted  attorney  was  employed  as  an  eligible
     8  attorney  and  all  periods  of  time during which a law school graduate
     9  awaiting admission to the New York state bar was employed by a prosecut-
    10  ing or criminal defense agency as  permitted  by  section  four  hundred
    11  eighty-four  of  the judiciary law shall be combined.  A period of leave
    12  without pay, or other periods which an eligible attorney is not in a pay
    13  status shall not count toward the completion of required service  period
    14  reemployment. The service completion date shall be extended by the total
    15  time  spent  in  non-pay  status.  However, absence because of uniformed
    16  service with a recognized branch of the United States military,  author-
    17  ized  maternity/paternity,  FMLA,  or due to compensable injury shall be
    18  considered creditable, within the  sole  discretion  of  the  president,
    19  toward the required service period upon reemployment.
    20    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
    21  have been in full force and effect on and after January 1, 2010.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01578-01-3