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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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 competence6in home inspection practice as determined by a recognized role defi-7nition methodology and developed and administered to the extent practi-8cable in a manner consistent with the American Educational Research9Association's "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing." An10applicant who has passed an existing nationally recognized examination,11as approved by the secretary, prior to the effective date of this arti-12cle 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