S10053 • 2025

Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a public service job

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Sponsor: Sam Sutton
Last action: 2026-05-12
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a public service job

Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a public service job Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a public service job.

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Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a public service job Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a public service job.

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Bill History

2026-05-12 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-04-24 Senate
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

Official Summary Text

Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a public service job
Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a public service job.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          10053

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     April 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  SUTTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to waiving  the  biennial
          attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a
          public service job

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 468-a of  the  judiciary  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  9  of part K of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    4. The biennial registration fee shall be three  hundred  seventy-five
     5  dollars,  sixty  dollars of which shall be allocated to and be deposited
     6  in a fund established pursuant to the provisions of section  ninety-sev-
     7  en-t of the state finance law, fifty dollars of which shall be allocated
     8  to  and  shall  be  deposited  in  a  fund  established  pursuant to the
     9  provisions of section ninety-eight-b of the state finance  law,  twenty-
    10  five  dollars  of  which  shall  be  allocated to be deposited in a fund
    11  established pursuant to the provisions of section ninety-eight-c of  the
    12  state  finance law, and the remainder of which shall be deposited in the
    13  attorney licensing fund. Such fee shall be required  of  every  attorney
    14  who  is  admitted and licensed to practice law in this state, whether or
    15  not the attorney is engaged in the practice of  law  in  this  state  or
    16  elsewhere,  except  attorneys  who certify to the chief administrator of
    17  the courts that they have EITHER retired from the practice of law OR ARE
    18  EMPLOYED IN A PUBLIC SERVICE JOB AS DEFINED BY 20 U.S.C. 1087E(M)(3)(B).
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    21  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    22  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  on  or  before
    23  such date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07902-01-5