Senate Bill S1646

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to making technical corrections to ensure gender neutrality for the admission to practice law and preventing required disclosure of prior interaction with law enforcement or the criminal justice system

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S1646 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2184
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Amd RR9401, 9403, 9404, 9405 & 9406, CPLR
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S9292, A10512

2023-S1646 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to making technical corrections to ensure gender neutrality for the admission to practice law and preventing the character fitness questionnaire from inquiring into an applicant's prior interaction with law enforcement or the criminal justice system under certain circumstances.

2023-S1646 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1646 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1646
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to  making
   technical corrections to ensure gender neutrality for the admission to
   practice  law  and  preventing any required disclosure of prior inter-
   action with law enforcement  or  the  criminal  justice  system  under
   certain circumstances
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Rule 9401 of the civil practice law and rules is amended to
 read as follows:
   Rule 9401. Committee.  The appellate division in each judicial depart-
 ment shall appoint a committee of not less than three practicing lawyers
 for each judicial district within the department,  for  the  purpose  of
 investigating the character and fitness of every applicant for admission
 to  practice  as  an attorney and counselor at law in the courts of this
 state. Each member  of  such  committee  shall  serve  until  [his]  THE
 MEMBER'S  death,  resignation  or  the appointment of [his] THE MEMBER'S
 successor. A lawyer who has been or who shall be appointed a  member  of
 the  committee for one district may be appointed a member of the commit-
 tee for another district within the same department.
   § 2. The opening paragraph and subdivision 1 of rule 9403 of the civil
 practice law and rules, as amended by chapter 226 of the laws  of  1985,
 are amended to read as follows:
   Notwithstanding  rule  9402, any application for admission to practice
 pending before a committee, may be referred to the committee for another
 judicial district in the same or another department by order  or  direc-
 tion  of  the presiding justice of the appellate division of the depart-
 ment embracing the district in which the application  is  pending.  Such
 order  or  direction  may  be  made only upon the written request of the
 [chairman] CHAIRPERSON or acting [chairman] CHAIRPERSON of the committee
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01521-01-3
              

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