New York A 3271: Relates to the New York state district attorney and indigent legal services attorney loan forgiveness program

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A03271 Summary:

BILL NOA03271 

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SAME ASSAME AS S07375

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SPONSORBronson

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COSPNSRHevesi, Steck, Simon, Lunsford

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MLTSPNSR

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Relates to the New York state district attorney and indigent legal services attorney loan forgiveness program; allows absence because of uniformed service, maternity/paternity, FMLA, or due to compensable injury to be creditable time.

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BILL NOA03271 

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01/27/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3271

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 27, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, HEVESI, STECK, SIMON, LUNSFORD -- read
 once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

 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 educa-
 2 tion law, as amended by section 1 of part VV of chapter 56 of the laws
 3 of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
 4 b. "Eligible period" means the six-year period after completion of the
 5 third year and before the commencement of the tenth year of employment
 6 as an eligible attorney. For purposes of this section, all periods of
 7 time during which an admitted attorney was employed as an eligible
 8 attorney and all periods of time during which a law school graduate
 9 awaiting admission to the New York state bar was employed by a prosecut-
 10 ing or criminal defense agency as permitted by section four hundred
 11 eighty-four of the judiciary law shall be combined. A period of leave
 12 without pay, or other periods which an eligible attorney is not in a pay
 13 status shall not count toward the completion of required service period
 14 reemployment. The service completion date shall be extended by the total
 15 time spent in non-pay status. However, absence because of uniformed
 16 service with a recognized branch of the United States military, author-
 17 ized maternity/paternity, FMLA, or due to compensable injury shall be
 18 considered creditable, within the sole discretion of the president,
 19 toward the required service period upon reemployment.
 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
 21 have been in full force and effect on and after January 1, 2010.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05901-01-5

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