Bill Text: NY A05363 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds a surcharge to the fee paid for issuing or reissuing a real estate broker or salesmen license with such surcharge being collected by the department of state and payable to the office of the attorney general, to be used for statewide fair housing testing efforts.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-03 - substituted by s2133a [A05363 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05363-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5363

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to adding a surcharge
          to the fee paid for issuing or  reissuing  a  real  estate  broker  or
          salesmen license

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 441-b of the real property law, as
     2  amended by section 1 of part S of chapter 58 of the  laws  of  2017,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  The  fee  for a license issued or reissued under the provisions of
     5  this article  entitling  a  person,  co-partnership,  limited  liability
     6  company  or  corporation  to  act  as  a real estate broker shall be one
     7  hundred fifty-five dollars plus an additional thirty  dollar  surcharge.
     8  Such surcharge shall be collected by the department of state and payable
     9  to  the  office  of  the  attorney general to be used for statewide fair
    10  housing testing efforts. The fee for a license issued or reissued  under
    11  the  provisions  of  this  article  entitling  a person to act as a real
    12  estate salesman shall be  fifty-five  dollars  plus  an  additional  ten
    13  dollar surcharge. Such surcharge shall be collected by the department of
    14  state  and  payable to the office of the attorney general to be used for
    15  statewide fair housing testing efforts. Notwithstanding  the  provisions
    16  of  subdivision  seven of section four hundred forty-one-a of this arti-
    17  cle, after January first, nineteen hundred eighty-six, the secretary  of
    18  state  shall  assign staggered expiration dates for outstanding licenses
    19  that have been previously renewed on October thirty-first of  each  year
    20  from the assigned date unless renewed. If the assigned date results in a
    21  term  that  exceeds twenty-four months, the applicant shall pay an addi-
    22  tional prorated adjustment together with the regular  renewal  fee.  The
    23  secretary  of  state shall assign dates to existing licenses in a manner
    24  which shall result in a term of not less than two years.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06384-04-1