STATE OF NEW YORK
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1862--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, TAYLOR, THIELE, SAYEGH, STIRPE,
O'DONNELL, JOYNER, SIMON, BUTTENSCHON, GOTTFRIED, WILLIAMS, COOK,
REYES, CRUZ, STERN, WEPRIN, STECK, FERNANDEZ, DARLING -- Multi-Spon-
sored by -- M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Judiciary -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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 are employed in a
public service job
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 are
18 employed in a public service job as defined by 20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)(3)(B).
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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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 rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
4 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or before
5 such date.
