STATE OF NEW YORK
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649--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
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.
LBD02174-02-7
