New York S 3036: 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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S03036 Summary:

BILL NOS03036 

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SAME ASSAME AS A03234

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SPONSORHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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COSPNSRSEPULVEDA

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd RR9401, 9403, 9404, 9405 & 9406, CPLR

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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.

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BILL NOS03036 

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01/23/2025REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

05/12/20251ST REPORT CAL.988

05/13/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/14/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/21/2025PASSED SENATE

05/21/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/22/2025referred to judiciary

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3036

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 23, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judici-
 ary

 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:

 1 Section 1. Rule 9401 of the civil practice law and rules is amended to
 2 read as follows:
 3 Rule 9401. Committee. The appellate division in each judicial depart-
 4 ment shall appoint a committee of not less than three practicing lawyers
 5 for each judicial district within the department, for the purpose of
 6 investigating the character and fitness of every applicant for admission
 7 to practice as an attorney and counselor at law in the courts of this
 8 state. Each member of such committee shall serve until [his] the
 9 member's death, resignation or the appointment of [his] the member's
 10 successor. A lawyer who has been or who shall be appointed a member of
 11 the committee for one district may be appointed a member of the commit-
 12 tee for another district within the same department.
 13 § 2. The opening paragraph and subdivision 1 of rule 9403 of the civil
 14 practice law and rules, as amended by chapter 226 of the laws of 1985,
 15 are amended to read as follows:
 16 Notwithstanding rule 9402, any application for admission to practice
 17 pending before a committee, may be referred to the committee for another
 18 judicial district in the same or another department by order or direc-
 19 tion of the presiding justice of the appellate division of the depart-
 20 ment embracing the district in which the application is pending. Such
 21 order or direction may be made only upon the written request of the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06579-01-5

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 1 [chairman] chairperson or acting [chairman] chairperson of the committee
 2 before which the application is pending and only upon [his] the chair-
 3 person or acting chairperson's written certification either:
 4 1. that the applicant, since [he] they applied to take the bar exam-
 5 ination or to dispense with such examination or since [he] they applied
 6 on motion to be admitted to practice, has changed [his] their actual
 7 residence to such other judicial district in the same or other depart-
 8 ment, or, if not a resident of the state, has acquired full-time employ-
 9 ment in or changed [his] their place of full-time employment to such
 10 other judicial district in the same or other department; or
 11 § 3. Rule 9404 of the civil practice law and rules, as amended by
 12 judicial conference proposal number 7 for the year 1973, is amended to
 13 read as follows:
 14 Rule 9404. Certificate of character and fitness. Unless otherwise
 15 ordered by the appellate division, no person shall be admitted to prac-
 16 tice without a certificate from the proper committee