Bill Text: NY S00609 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to training requirements for home inspector licensing and requires the secretary to establish rules and regulations pertaining to the number and manner of hours of required training needed to obtain a license.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S00609 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00609-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         609--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Judiciary  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to training require-
          ments for home inspector licensing
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (b) of subdivision 1 of
     2  section 444-e of the real property law, as amended by section 59 of part
     3  D of chapter 60 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i) have successfully completed a course of study  of  not  less  than
     5  [one]  two  hundred [forty] hours approved by the secretary, of which at
     6  least [forty] eighty hours shall have been in the form of  unpaid  field
     7  based inspections in the presence of and under the direct supervision of
     8  a  home  inspector  licensed  by the state of New York or a professional
     9  engineer or architect regulated by the state of New  York  who  oversees
    10  and takes full responsibility for the inspection and any report provided
    11  to a client; or
    12    §  2. Section 444-l of the real property law, as amended by section 62
    13  of part D of chapter 60 of the laws of  2012,  is  amended  to  read  as
    14  follows:
    15    §  444-l.  Duties  of  the secretary. 1. The secretary shall establish
    16  such rules and regulations  as  shall  be  necessary  to  implement  the
    17  provisions of this article.
    18    2.  The  secretary shall establish rules and regulations pertaining to
    19  the number and manner of hours of unpaid field-based  training  required
    20  pursuant  to  subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph (b) of subdivision one of
    21  section four hundred forty-four-e of this article.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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