New York A 1602: Authorizes the villages of Malone, Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake, in the county of Franklin, to employ retired former members of the division of state police as part-time village police officers

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A01602 Summary:

BILL NOA01602A

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SAME ASSAME AS S00161-A

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SPONSORSimon

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COSPNSREpstein, Dinowitz, Magnarelli, Tannousis, McDonough, Jackson, Cruz, Kelles, Stirpe, Walker,
 Forrest, Raga, Seawright, Shimsky, Jacobson, Hevesi, Lunsford, Alvarez, Reyes, Carroll R,
 Gonzalez-Rojas, Shrestha, Kim, Simpson, Meeks, Simone, Clark, Davila, Burdick, Rajkumar, Levenberg,
 Lee, Steck, Gallagher, Woerner, Wieder, Sayegh, Santabarbara, Burroughs, Fall, Colton, Valdez,
 Griffin, Cunningham, Chludzinski, Wright, Hooks, Moreno, Septimo

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Amd §679-e, Ed L

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Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness; increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients.

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BILL NOA01602A

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01/10/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

03/03/2026amend and recommit to higher education

03/03/2026print number 1602a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1602--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, DINOWITZ, MAGNARELLI, TANNOUSIS, McDO-
 NOUGH, JACKSON, CRUZ, KELLES, STIRPE, WALKER, FORREST, RAGA,
 SEAWRIGHT, SHIMSKY, JACOBSON, HEVESI, LUNSFORD, ALVAREZ, REYES,
 R. CARROLL, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, SHRESTHA, KIM, SIMPSON, MEEKS, SIMONE,
 CLARK, DAVILA, BURDICK, RAJKUMAR, LEVENBERG, LEE, STECK, GALLAGHER,
 WOERNER, WIEDER, SAYEGH, SANTABARBARA, BURROUGHS, FALL, COLTON,
 VALDEZ, GRIFFIN, CUNNINGHAM, CHLUDZINSKI -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on
 Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- commit-
 tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
 mitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the New York state
 district attorney and indigent legal services attorney loan forgive-
 ness program

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 679-e of the
 2 education law, as amended by section 1 of part VV of chapter 56 of the
 3 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
 4 b. "Eligible period" means the [six-year] eight-year period after
 5 completion of the [third] second year and before the commencement of the
 6 [tenth] eleventh year of employment as an eligible attorney. For
 7 purposes of this section, all periods of time during which an admitted
 8 attorney was employed as an eligible attorney and all periods of time
 9 during which a law school graduate awaiting admission to the New York
 10 state bar was employed by a prosecuting [or] agency, criminal defense
 11 agency, or non-profit indigent civil legal services corporation as
 12 permitted by section four hundred eighty-four of the judiciary law shall
 13 be combined.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00120-03-6

 A. 1602--A 2

 1 § 2. Paragraph d of subdivision 2 of section 679-e of the education
 2 law, as amended by section 1 of part VV of chapter 56 of the laws of
 3 2009, is amended to read as follows:
 4 d. "Year of qualified service" means the twelve month period measured
 5 from the anniversary of the attorney's employment as an eligible attor-
 6 ney, or as a law school graduate awaiting admission to the New York
 7 state bar employed by a prosecuting [or] agency, criminal defense
 8 agency, or non-profit indigent civil legal services corporation as
 9 permitted by section four hundred eighty-four of the judiciary law,
 10 adjusted for any interruption in employment. Vacation or leave time
 11 provided by the employer or leave taken for a condition that is a quali-
 12 fying reason for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993,
 13 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1) and (3) shall not be considered an interruption in
 14 qualifying employment. Any period of [temporary leave from service]
 15 interruption in qualifying employment