Bill Text: NY A07527 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7527 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the attorney licensing fund; establishes that the fund shall be available for the judiciary in operating its candidate examination, candidate fitness, and attorney disciplinary programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A07527 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07527-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7527
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 8, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. QUART, DINOWITZ -- (at request of the Office of
          Court Administration) -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Judiciary
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  state  finance law, in relation to the attorney
          licensing fund
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  state finance law is amended by adding a new section
     2  94-c to read as follows:
     3    § 94-c. Attorney licensing fund. 1. The  attorney  licensing  fund  is
     4  hereby  continued  in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the
     5  commissioner of taxation and finance.
     6    2. Such fund shall consist of that portion of  the  biennial  attorney
     7  registration  fee  deposited  therein  pursuant  to section four hundred
     8  sixty-eight-a of the judiciary law and any other moneys deposited there-
     9  in pursuant to law.
    10    3. All moneys in the  attorney  licensing  fund  shall  be  available,
    11  subject  to  appropriation and in addition to any other moneys available
    12  pursuant to law, for the payment of services and expenses of the judici-
    13  ary in operating its candidate examination (state board of  law  examin-
    14  ers), candidate fitness (committees on character and fitness) and attor-
    15  ney  disciplinary  programs  pursuant to section ninety of the judiciary
    16  law, including liabilities incurred in a prior fiscal year.
    17    4. All payments of moneys from the attorney licensing  fund  shall  be
    18  made  on  the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified
    19  and approved by the chief administrator of the courts.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10254-02-9