Bill Text: NY S03819 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who meet the federal public service loan forgiveness program employment qualifications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S03819 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03819-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         3819--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 15, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Judiciary  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the judiciary law, in relation to waiving the biennial
          attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who meet the  federal
          public service loan forgiveness program employment qualifications

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 468-a of  the  judiciary  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  9  of part K of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    4. The biennial registration fee shall be three  hundred  seventy-five
     5  dollars,  sixty  dollars of which shall be allocated to and be deposited
     6  in a fund established pursuant to the provisions of section  ninety-sev-
     7  en-t of the state finance law, fifty dollars of which shall be allocated
     8  to  and  shall  be  deposited  in  a  fund  established  pursuant to the
     9  provisions of section ninety-eight-b of the state finance  law,  twenty-
    10  five  dollars  of  which  shall  be  allocated to be deposited in a fund
    11  established pursuant to the provisions of section ninety-eight-c of  the
    12  state  finance law, and the remainder of which shall be deposited in the
    13  attorney licensing fund. Such fee shall be required  of  every  attorney
    14  who  is  admitted and licensed to practice law in this state, whether or
    15  not the attorney is engaged in the practice of  law  in  this  state  or
    16  elsewhere,  except  attorneys  who certify to the chief administrator of
    17  the courts that they have either retired from the practice of law or met
    18  the employment requirements for  participation  of  the  federal  public
    19  service loan forgiveness program as set out in 20 U.S.C. 1087e(m).
    20    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    22  repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the  implementation  of
    23  the  foregoing  provisions of this act on its effective date are author-
    24  ized and directed to be made and completed on or before  such  effective
    25  date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10034-02-9