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- Referred to finance
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to correction
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 56–6
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.567
- Referred to finance
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Prohibits sex offenders from being entitled to licenses as state certified and licensed real estate appraisers
In Assembly Committee · Correction · Sponsor Edward Braunstein
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BILL NUMBER:S4046
Title of bill
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting sex offenders from being entitled to licenses as state certified and licensed real estate appraisers
Purpose
To include the conviction of a sex offense or sexually violent offense as disabilities to licensure as a state certified real estate appraiser and to require the reporting of conviction of a sex offense or sexually violent offense by real estate licensees.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of this bill amends section 160-p of the Executive Law to include the conviction of a sex offense or sexually violent offense a disability to licensure as a real estate appraiser. This section also requires that a real estate appraiser notify and provide a certified copy of the judgment of conviction to the Department of State within 5 days after the imposition of sentence for a conviction of a sex offense or a sexually violent crime.
Section 2 of this bill provides that this act shall take effect imme- diately.
Justification
The intent of this legislation is to build upon the private and public recognition that New Yorkers could be vulnerable to violent crime within the framework and common practices involving real estate transactions that began with the enactment of Chapter 430 of 2008, which prohibited sex offenders from becoming licensed real estate brokers or salesman. Currently convicted sex offenders are not faced with this automatic disability to licensure as a real estate appraiser.
Sex offenders on any level represent a persistent threat to the public. This bill would remove this threat by prohibiting convicted sex offen- ders from becoming a state certified real estate appraiser and to require the reporting of conviction of a sex offense or sexually violent offense by real estate licensees.
Legislative history
2014: S.6260 - Referred to Finance 2013: S.755 - Passed the Senate 2012: S.597-A - Passed the Senate 2011: S.597-A - Passed the Senate 2010: S.25 - Referred to Finance 2009: S.25 - Referred to Finance 2008: S.7894 - Advanced to Third Reading
Fiscal implications
None to the State
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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