Assembly Bill A7349

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides for distance learning for continuing education of home inspectors and hearing aid dispensers

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A7349 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4468
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Real Property Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §444-f, RP L; amd §794, Gen Bus L

2011-A7349 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for distance learning for continuing education of home inspectors and hearing aid dispensers.

2011-A7349 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  7349

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 2, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. SCHIMMINGER -- (at request of the Department of
  State) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Develop-
  ment

AN ACT to amend the real  property  law  and  the  general  business  in
  relation  to  the approval of distance learning courses for continuing
  education

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 444-f of the real property law, as
amended  by  chapter  225  of  the  laws  of 2005, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. Home inspector licenses and renewals thereof shall be issued for  a
period  of two years, except that the secretary may, in order to stagger
the expiration date thereof, provide that those licenses first issued or
renewed after the effective date of this section shall expire or  become
void  on  a  date fixed by the secretary, not sooner than six months nor
later than twenty-nine months after the date of issue. No renewal  of  a
license  shall be issued unless the applicant has successfully completed
a course of continuing education approved by the secretary, in consulta-
tion with the council. THE  SECRETARY  MAY  APPROVE  COMPUTER-BASED  AND
DISTANCE-LEARNING  COURSES SO LONG AS, IN HIS OR HER JUDGMENT, PROVIDERS
SATISFACTORILY DEMONSTRATE THE ABILITY TO  MONITOR  AND  VERIFY  PARTIC-
IPATION BY THE APPLICANT FOR THE SPECIFIED TIME PERIOD.  NOTWITHSTANDING
THE  FOREGOING AUTHORITY TO APPROVE COMPUTER-BASED AND DISTANCE-LEARNING
COURSES, THE SECRETARY MAY PRESCRIBE THAT SPECIFIED  SUBJECTS  OR  HOURS
MUST BE PRESENTED IN A CLASSROOM SETTING.
  S  2.  Subdivision  1  of  section 794 of the general business law, as
amended by chapter 301 of the laws  of  2000,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1.  Prior  to the expiration of a certificate of registration and as a
condition of renewal, each hearing aid dispenser registered pursuant  to

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09430-01-1
              

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