Amd 441, RP L; amd 5, Chap of 2021 (as proposed in S.2132-B & A.5359)
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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7730
IN SENATE
January 7, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
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.
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S. 7730 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.
