Senate Bill S4964

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for student loan assistance for certain attorneys employed by political subdivisions of the state

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education 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-S4964 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §679-e, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8013
2019-2020: S4045
2021-2022: S2018

2023-S4964 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Grants student loan forgiveness for certain municipal attorneys employed by political subdivisions of the state.

2023-S4964 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4964 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4964
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. JACKSON, GOUNARDES, KRUEGER, MYRIE, PERSAUD, RAMOS
   -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
   the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to student  loan  assist-
   ance  for  certain attorneys employed by political subdivisions of the
   state

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 679-e of the education law, as amended by section 1
 of  part VV of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, subparagraph (i) of para-
 graph a of subdivision 2 as amended by section 1 of part R of chapter 57
 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   § 679-e. New York state  district  attorney,  MUNICIPAL  ATTORNEY  and
 indigent  legal  services attorney loan forgiveness program. 1. Purpose.
 The president shall  grant  student  loan  forgiveness  awards  for  the
 purpose of increasing the number of experienced attorneys serving in the
 position  of  district attorney, A MUNICIPAL ATTORNEY, or indigent legal
 services attorney in the counties of the state.
   2. Definitions. a. (i) "Eligible attorney" means an attorney, who is a
 resident of and is admitted to practice law in New York  state,  who  is
 employed full-time as either a district attorney, as defined in subpara-
 graph  (ii) of this paragraph, [or] an indigent legal services attorney,
 as defined in subparagraph (iii)  of  this  paragraph,  OR  A  MUNICIPAL
 ATTORNEY,  AS DEFINED IN SUBPARAGRAPH (IV) OF THIS PARAGRAPH, AND who is
 admitted to practice law in this state for not more than eleven years or
 who was within the eligible period as defined in  paragraph  b  of  this
 subdivision  during  the time for which such person is seeking a student
 loan expense grant. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an eligible  attorney
 shall  include  those  district  attorney  applicants  who  were awarded
 program eligibility and who provided  qualified  service  between  April
 first,  two  thousand eight and March thirty-first, two thousand eleven;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07347-01-3
              

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