Bill Text: NY S06199 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires a homeowner be provided a cost estimate for installation of a fire sprinkler system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S06199 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06199-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6199 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection 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 2 771-b to read as follows: 3 § 771-b. For all private, one-family home construction contracted on 4 or after the effective date of this section, the home construction esti- 5 mate must include a cost estimate for the installation of a fire sprin- 6 kler system. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the 7 home buyer to purchase such a system. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next 9 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. LBD11704-01-7