Bill Text: NY S04635 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients from $3,400 to $5,500.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S04635 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S04635-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4635 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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 a of subdivision 3 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 a. An eligible attorney may apply for reimbursement after the 5 completion of each year of qualified service provided however that 6 reimbursement to each eligible attorney shall not exceed [three thousand7four hundred] five thousand five hundred dollars, per qualifying year, 8 subject to appropriations available therefor. The president may estab- 9 lish: (i) an application deadline and (ii) a method of selecting recipi- 10 ents if in any given year there are insufficient funds to cover the 11 needs of all the applicants. Awards shall be within the amounts appro- 12 priated for such purpose and based on availability of funds. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2024. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08715-01-3
