Requires pleadings in actions arising from the conduct of a business required to be licensed by the state to set forth in the pleadings that the business was licensed at the time the cause of action arose.

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A2215A-2011 Actions

• Oct 3, 2012: approval memo.13
• Oct 3, 2012: signed chap.458
• Sep 21, 2012: delivered to governor
• Jun 19, 2012: RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jun 19, 2012: PASSED SENATE
• Jun 19, 2012: 3RD READING CAL.1311
• Jun 19, 2012: SUBSTITUTED FOR S7092
• Jan 23, 2012: REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
• Jan 23, 2012: delivered to senate
• Jan 23, 2012: passed assembly
• Jan 4, 2012: ordered to third reading cal.101
• Jan 4, 2012: RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jan 4, 2012: DIED IN SENATE
• May 10, 2011: REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
• May 10, 2011: delivered to senate
• May 10, 2011: passed assembly
• Mar 31, 2011: advanced to third reading cal.163
• Mar 30, 2011: reported
• Mar 22, 2011: print number 2215a
• Mar 22, 2011: amend and recommit to codes
• Jan 14, 2011: referred to codes

A2215A-2011 Votes

A2215A-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   2215--A

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                              January 14, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, JAFFEE, HOOPER, BOYLAND, REILLY, CRES-
    PO, CASTRO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL, DINOWITZ, MARKEY,
    PHEFFER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- commit-
    tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
    mitted to said committee

  AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to requir-
    ing pleadings in actions  arising  from  the  conduct  of  a  business
    required  to  be  licensed  by the state to set forth in the pleadings
    that the business was licensed at the time the cause of action arose

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


    Section  1. Subdivision (e) of rule 3015 of the civil practice law and
  rules, as amended by chapter 465 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read
  as follows:

    (e) License to do business. Where  the  plaintiff's  cause  of  action
  against  a  consumer  arises  from the plaintiff's conduct of a business
  which is required by state or local law to be licensed by the department
  of consumer affairs of the city of New York, the Suffolk county  depart-
  ment  of consumer affairs, the Westchester county department of consumer
  affairs/weight-measures, the county of Rockland, the county of Putnam or
  the Nassau county department of consumer affairs,  the  complaint  shall
  allege,  as  part  of  the cause of action, that plaintiff [is] WAS duly
  licensed AT THE TIME OF SERVICES RENDERED and shall contain the name and
  number, if any, of such license and the governmental agency which issued
  such license; provided, however, that where the plaintiff does not  have
  a  license  at the commencement of the action the plaintiff may, subject
  to the provisions of rule thirty hundred twenty-five  of  this  article,
  amend  the  complaint  with  the  name  and  number of an after-acquired
  license OR THE PREVIOUSLY HELD LICENSE, AS THE CASE MAY BE, and the name
  of the governmental agency which issued such license or move  for  leave
  to  amend  the complaint in accordance with such provisions. The failure

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD00573-02-1

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  of the plaintiff to comply with this subdivision will permit the defend-
  ant to move for dismissal pursuant to paragraph seven of subdivision (a)
  of rule thirty-two hundred eleven of this chapter.
    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.