STATE OF NEW YORK
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4490--B
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, LUPARDO, J. RIVERA, JAFFEE, PHEFFER,
MAYERSOHN, FIELDS, GUNTHER, SCHROEDER, MARKEY, EDDINGTON, LAVINE,
ESPAILLAT, LANCMAN, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE,
GABRYSZAK, JACOBS, V. LOPEZ, MAGEE, McENENY, PEOPLES, TOWNS -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee
with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring one member
of the crime victims compensation board to be an attorney with a
concentration in elder law
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 622 of the executive law, as
2 amended by chapter 17 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. There is hereby created in the executive department a board, to be
5 known as the crime victims board. Such board shall consist of [five] six
6 members, no more than [three] four of whom shall belong to the same
7 political party, who shall be appointed by the governor by and with the
8 advice and consent of the senate. Three of the members appointed by the
9 governor shall have been admitted to practice law in the state of New
10 York for not less than five years next preceding their appointment and
11 one shall have been admitted to practice law in the state of New York
12 with a concentration in elder law for not less than five years preceding
13 his or her appointment.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08178-06-9
