What's happening
This bill updates licensing requirements for businesses in Westchester County, requiring them to state their license details in legal complaints.
Why it matters
Strengthens consumer protections. by ensuring businesses suing consumers in Westchester County must prove they are properly licensed, which helps prevent unlicensed or fraudulent businesses from using the courts to collect debts or enforce contracts.
Creates new legal risks for businesses. operating in Westchester County, as failure to include specific licensing information in court filings can now lead to automatic dismissal of their cases—potentially impacting their ability to recover money owed.
Brings Westchester County in line with other major NY counties. (like NYC, Suffolk, Nassau, Rockland, and Putnam) that already have similar requirements, promoting consistency and clarity across regional business regulations and court procedures.
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Update Westchester Licensing Rules
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Sponsors
4 Co-sponsors
History
- Signed chap.693
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- 3rd reading cal.434
- Substituted for S4222
- Referred to judiciary
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.154
- Reported
- Referred to codes
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Update Westchester License Rules
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Pete Harckham
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3486
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to the licensing board in the county of Westchester
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision (e) of rule 3015 of the civil practice law and rules, as amended by chapter 21 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
(e) License to do business. Where the plaintiff's cause of action against a consumer arises from the plaintiff's conduct of a business which is required by state or local law to be licensed by the department of consumer affairs of the city of New York, the Suffolk county department of consumer affairs, [the Westchester county department of consumer affairs/weight-measures,] the county of Rockland, the county of Putnam, the county of Westchester, or the Nassau county department of consumer affairs, the complaint shall allege, as part of the cause of action, that plaintiff was duly licensed at the time of services rendered and shall contain the name and number, if any, of such license and the governmental agency which issued such license. The failure of the plaintiff to comply with this subdivision will permit the defendant to move for dismissal pursuant to paragraph seven of subdivision (a) of rule thirty-two hundred eleven of this chapter.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01129-01-9
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