Bill Text: NY S01645 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires all new private, one-family and two-family home construction contracts to include a cost estimate for installation of a fire sprinkler system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01645 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01645-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1645--B
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  BROOKS, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer
          Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended  and  recommitted  to  said committee -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee
        AN  ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring that
          a homeowner be provided a cost estimate for  installation  of  a  fire
          sprinkler system
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  759-b to read as follows:
     3    § 759-b. Fire sprinkler system estimate.  For all private,  one-family
     4  and  two-family  home  construction contracted on or after the effective
     5  date of this section, the home construction estimate must include a cost
     6  estimate for the installation of a fire  sprinkler  system.  Nothing  in
     7  this  section  shall  be construed to require the home buyer to purchase
     8  such a system.
     9    § 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
    10  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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