S3647-2013 Actions

• Feb 8, 2013: REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

S3647-2013 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         3647
 2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 February 8, 2013
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  MAZIARZ, SAVINO, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Judici
 ary
 AN  ACT directing the New York state continuing legal education board to
 adopt regulations permitting attorneys to  earn  continuing  education
 credits  for  uncompensated  legal  services to veterans and volunteer
 emergency responders
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. The New York state continuing legal education board, estab
 lished  pursuant to 22 NYCRR 1500, is authorized and directed to promul
 gate regulations providing that an attorney may  earn  continuing  legal
 education  credits  by  performing  uncompensated  legal services to any
 veteran of the armed forces of the United States or any active volunteer
 emergency responder, regardless of such veteran's or volunteer emergency
 responder's income, in the same manner in which  an  attorney  may  earn
 continuing  legal  education  credit for uncompensated legal services to
 individuals unable to afford counsel pursuant to a program accredited by
 the continuing legal education board under 22 NYCRR 1500.22(j). For  the
 purposes  of  this  act,  the term "volunteer emergency responder" shall
 mean an active member of a volunteer fire  company  and/or  a  voluntary
 ambulance service as such terms are defined in section 100 of the gener
 al municipal law.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06697-02-3

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