Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who meet the federal public service loan forgiveness program employment qualifications.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3819--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to waiving the biennial
attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who meet the federal
public service loan forgiveness program employment qualifications
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 met
18 the employment requirements for participation of the federal public
19 service loan forgiveness program as set out in 20 U.S.C. 1087e(m).
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
21 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
22 repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the implementation of
23 the foregoing provisions of this act on its effective date are author-
24 ized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective
25 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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