Bill Text: NY A06712 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-30 - print number 6712a [A06712 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06712-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6712--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 16, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on High-
          er Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  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 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 thousand
     7  four  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, 2019.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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