New York A 4608: Relates to expanding the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys

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A04608 Summary:

BILL NOA04608 

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Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness.

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BILL NOA04608 

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02/04/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4608

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ -- 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] seven-year period after
 5 completion of the [third] second year and before the commencement of the
 6 tenth year of employment as an eligible attorney. For purposes of this
 7 section, all periods of time during which an admitted attorney was
 8 employed as an eligible attorney and all periods of time during which a
 9 law school graduate awaiting admission to the New York state bar was
 10 employed by a prosecuting or criminal defense agency as permitted by
 11 section four hundred eighty-four of the judiciary law shall be combined.
 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Nothing in this act shall
 13 be implemented in a manner that diminishes the current award or status
 14 of eligible attorneys currently participating in the program.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07620-01-5

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