What's happening
This bill requires home builders to provide buyers with a cost estimate for installing a fire sprinkler system before signing a construction contract.
Why it matters
Empowers buyers with clearer financial information. By requiring builders to provide a specific cost estimate for installing fire sprinklers, prospective homeowners can make more informed decisions about safety features and budgeting before signing a contract.
Increases transparency and accountability for builders. Builders must research and disclose actual costs, reducing the chance of hidden or surprise expenses later in the process and ensuring buyers are not misled about the affordability of fire protection upgrades.
Could influence the adoption of fire safety measures. With upfront cost information readily available, more buyers may opt to include fire sprinkler systems in their homes, potentially increasing public safety and influencing overall market demand for these protections.
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Require Sprinkler Cost Estimates
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Ordered to third reading cal.106
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.101
- Rules report cal.101
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Print number 2468c
- Amend and recommit to consumer affairs and protection
- Print number 2468b
- Amend and recommit to consumer affairs and protection
- Print number 2468a
- Amend and recommit to consumer affairs and protection
- Referred to consumer affairs and protection
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The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Disclose Sprinkler Installation Costs
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor John E. Brooks
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2468--C
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring that a homeowner be provided a cost estimate for installation of a fire sprinkler system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 759-a of the general business law, as added by chapter 201 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
§ 759-a. Disclosure of automatic fire sprinkler system information. A builder of a one- or two-family residential dwelling having less than three stories, prior to entering into a contract for construction of such dwelling with a buyer, shall provide the buyer with a copy of written materials prepared by the office of fire prevention and control pursuant to subdivision twenty-one of section one hundred fifty-six of the executive law, which details the benefits of and includes factors that can affect the costs associated with the installation and maintenance of an automatic fire sprinkler system. The builder shall further provide an estimate of the cost for the installation of an automatic fire sprinkler system in such dwelling. Upon request of the buyer, the builder shall, at the buyer's expense, install an automatic fire sprinkler system in such one- or two-family residential dwelling having less than three stories.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however the amendments to section 759-a of the general business law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00381-08-9
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