Bill Text: NY S04122 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to home inspection professional licensing; requires home inspection professionals to pass the National Home Inspector examination.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-25 - signed chap.541 [S04122 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04122-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4122
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. GAUGHRAN, 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  home  inspection
          professional licensing
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 444-e of the real
     2  property law, as amended by section 59 of part D of chapter  60  of  the
     3  laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c)  have passed [a written or electronic] the National Home Inspector
     5  examination [approved by the secretary, and designed to test  competence
     6  in  home  inspection  practice  as determined by a recognized role defi-
     7  nition methodology and developed and administered to the extent  practi-
     8  cable  in  a  manner  consistent  with the American Educational Research
     9  Association's "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing."  An
    10  applicant  who has passed an existing nationally recognized examination,
    11  as approved by the secretary, prior to the effective date of this  arti-
    12  cle shall be in compliance with this paragraph]; and
    13    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to appli-
    14  cations for a license as a home inspector  received  on  or  after  such
    15  date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10159-01-9
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