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Senate Bill S5027
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Judiciary Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-S5027 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A6956
- Current Committee:
- Senate Judiciary
- Law Section:
- Real Property Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§444-e, 444-f & 444-l, RP L
- Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
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S609, A2077
2015-S5027 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Relates to training and continuing education 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 or continuing education needed to obtain a license or license renewal.
2015-S5027 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S5027 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the real property law, in relation to training and continuing education requirements for home inspector licensing PURPOSE: The purpose of this bill is to update required training and continuing education requirements for home inspectors. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: This bill will increase the number of required training hours from one hundred and forty to two hundred hours and increase the required amount of unpaid field training from forty to eighty hours. The bill also clarifies that the required continuing education course should be at least thirty two hours, up to which eight hours may be completed through online education. Finally, this legislation directs the Secretary of State to review and establish rules and regulations pertaining to the number and manner of unpaid field-based training and the manner and hours of continuing education courses, including those for online education.
2015-S5027 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5027 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 29, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to training and continuing education requirements for home inspector licensing THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 444-e of the real property law, as amended by section 59 of part D of chapter 60 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows: (i) have successfully completed a course of study of not less than [one] TWO hundred [forty] hours approved by the secretary, of which at least [forty] EIGHTY hours shall have been in the form of unpaid field based inspections in the presence of and under the direct supervision of a home inspector licensed by the state of New York or a professional engineer or architect regulated by the state of New York who oversees and takes full responsibility for the inspection and any report provided to a client; or S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 444-f of the real property law, as amended by section 60 of part D of chapter 60 of the laws of 2012, 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] AT LEAST THIRTY-TWO HOURS of continuing education approved by the secretary WITHIN THE TWO-YEAR PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING SUCH RENEWAL, UP TO EIGHT HOURS OF WHICH MAY BE COMPLETED THROUGH ONLINE EDUCATION THAT ADHERES TO THE REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH BY THE SECRETARY. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08389-01-5
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