Bill Text: NY A06085 | 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 25-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to judiciary [A06085 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06085-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         6085--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, TAYLOR, THIELE, SAYEGH, STIRPE, ARROYO,
          O'DONNELL,  JOYNER,  MOSLEY,  BLAKE,  SIMON,  BUTTENSCHON,  GOTTFRIED,
          WILLIAMS, LIFTON, COOK, REYES, D'URSO,  CRUZ,  STERN,  WEPRIN,  STECK,
          FERNANDEZ  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        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).

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 6085--A                          2

     1    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     2  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     3  repeal  of  any rules or regulations necessary for the implementation of
     4  the foregoing provisions of this act on its effective date  are  author-
     5  ized  and  directed to be made and completed on or before such effective
     6  date.