STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7488 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 31, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RYAN -- (at request of the Office of Court Adminis- tration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the judiciary law and the state finance law, in relation to the attorney licensing fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 465 of the judiciary law, as 2 amended by section 6 of part K of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. Every person applying for examination for admission to practice as 5 an attorney and counselor at law shall pay a fee of two hundred fifty 6 dollars, or seven hundred fifty dollars if, to qualify to take the bar 7 examination, the person must satisfy the rules of the court of appeals 8 for the admission of attorneys and counselors at law governing the study 9 of law in a foreign country, for each taking or retaking of the examina- 10 tion, or if dispensation has been received from the taking of the exam- 11 ination, four hundred dollars for credential review for admission on 12 motion. All such fees shall be paid into the state treasury [~~in the~~ 13 ~~manner provided by section one hundred twenty-one~~] and thereupon trans- 14 ferred to the attorney licensing fund established by section ninety- 15 four-c of the state finance law. 16 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 94-c to 17 read as follows: 18 § 94-c. Attorney licensing fund. 1. The attorney licensing fund is 19 hereby continued in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the 20 commissioner of taxation and finance. 21 2. Such fund shall consist of that portion of the biennial attorney 22 registration fee deposited therein pursuant to section four hundred 23 sixty-eight-a of the judiciary law and any other moneys deposited there- 24 in or transferred thereto pursuant to law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03467-01-3

S. 7488 2 1 3. All moneys in the attorney licensing fund shall be available, 2 subject to appropriation and in addition to any other moneys available 3 pursuant to law, for the payment of services and expenses of the judici- 4 ary in operating its candidate examination (state board of law examin- 5 ers), candidate fitness (committees on character and fitness) and attor- 6 ney disciplinary programs pursuant to section ninety of the judiciary 7 law, including liabilities incurred in a prior fiscal year. 8 4. All payments of moneys from the attorney licensing fund shall be 9 made on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified 10 and approved by the chief administrator of the courts. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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