Bill Text: NY A08848 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the required training for real estate brokers and real estate salespeople relating to fair housing laws and housing discrimination; provides the secretary of state shall require approved faculty to sign and affirm under penalty of perjury a document approved by and submitted electronically attesting to compliance with requirements pertaining to the instruction of established curriculum.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-14 - substituted by s7730 [A08848 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08848-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8848

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 18, 2022
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend  the  real  property  law,  in  relation  to  increasing
          required  training for real estate brokers and real estate salespeople
          to prevent discrimination; and to amend a chapter of the laws of  2021
          amending  the real property law relating to increasing required train-
          ing for real estate brokers and real  estate  salespeople  to  prevent
          discrimination,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers A. 5359 and
          S. 2132-B, relating to the effectiveness thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (ii)  of  paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of
     2  section 441 of the real property law, as amended by  a  chapter  of  the
     3  laws  of  2021  amending  the  real  property law relating to increasing
     4  required training for real estate brokers and real estate salespeople to
     5  prevent discrimination, as proposed in legislative bills numbers A. 5359
     6  and S.  2132-B, is amended to read as follows:
     7    (ii) The secretary of state shall require approved faculty to sign and
     8  affirm, under penalty of perjury, a document [under oath],  approved  by
     9  and  submitted  electronically  to the department of state, attesting to
    10  compliance with all applicable  statutory  and  regulatory  requirements
    11  pertaining  to the instruction of the established curriculum. The secre-
    12  tary of state shall promulgate penalties for faculty that fail  to  meet
    13  the  obligations  required  under  this  section and department of state
    14  regulations including, but not limited to, the temporary  suspension  of
    15  their  instructor certificate for the first such failure and the revoca-
    16  tion of their instructor certificate for any subsequent failure.
    17    § 2. Section 5 of a chapter of the laws  of  2021  amending  the  real
    18  property  law  relating  to increasing required training for real estate
    19  brokers and  real  estate  salespeople  to  prevent  discrimination,  as
    20  proposed  in legislative bills numbers A. 5359 and S. 2132-B, is amended
    21  to read as follows:
    22    § 5. This act shall take effect [on the first of July next  succeeding
    23  the date on which] one year after it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06385-05-2
        A. 8848                             2

     1    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
     2  section one of this act shall take effect on the same date  and  in  the
     3  same  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the real property
     4  law relating to increasing required training for real estate brokers and
     5  real estate salespeople to prevent discrimination, as proposed in legis-
     6  lative bills numbers A. 5359 and S. 2132-B, takes effect.