Bill Text: NY A10858 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the board of law examiners to administer an online bar exam in September 2020.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-24 - referred to judiciary [A10858 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10858-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10858

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 24, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Epstein) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT directing the state board  of  law  examiners  to  administer  an
          online  examination  for persons applying for admission to practice as
          attorneys and counsellors-at-law in this state

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

     1    Section 1. The legislature finds that as a result of the circumstances
     2  surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, it is unclear whether the state board
     3  of  law examiners will be able to safely administer a two-day, in-person
     4  New York state bar examination as scheduled or  at  any  later  date  in
     5  calendar  year  2020.  The  New  York state board of law examiners shall
     6  conduct a two-day bar examination on September 9th and 10th to be admin-
     7  istered remotely in an online format. Additional  information  regarding
     8  delivery  of  the online bar exam, including plans for proctoring, shall
     9  be provided by the state board  of  law  examiners  to  applicants,  law
    10  schools,  bar  review  courses and other interested parties by August 3,
    11  2020.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16873-02-0
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