Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Aug 13, 2015 |
signed chap.115 |
Aug 03, 2015 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 11, 2015 |
returned to assembly passed senate substituted for s3824a referred to consumer protection delivered to senate passed assembly |
Jun 10, 2015 |
ordered to third reading rules cal.237 rules report cal.237 reported |
Jun 08, 2015 |
reported referred to rules |
Apr 28, 2015 |
reported referred to codes |
Mar 03, 2015 |
referred to economic development |
Assembly Bill A5652
Signed By Governor2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
SCHIMMINGER
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
James Skoufis
Edward Braunstein
multi-Sponsors
David McDonough
2015-A5652 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-A5652 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Relates to licenses for private investigators, bail enforcement agents and watch, guard or patrol agencies; separates licensing of private investigators from that of bail enforcement agents and patrol agencies; increases punishment for private investigation without a license.
2015-A5652 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5652 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 3, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER, SKOUFIS, BRAUNSTEIN -- Multi-Spon- sored by -- M. of A. McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to licenses for private investigators, bail enforcement agents and watch, guard or patrol agencies THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 70 of the general business law, as amended by chap- ter 562 of the laws of 2000 and subdivision 3 as further amended by section 104 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: S 70. [Licenses] PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR LICENSE. 1. The department of state shall have the power to issue [separate] licenses to private investigators[, bail enforcement agents and to watch, guard or patrol agencies]. Nothing in this article shall prevent a private investigator licensed hereunder from performing the services of a watch, guard or patrol agency or bail enforcement agent as defined herein; however, a watch, guard or patrol agency or bail enforcement agent may not perform the services of a private investigator as defined herein. 2. No person, firm, company, partnership, limited liability company or corporation shall engage in the business of private investigator[, busi- ness of bail enforcement agents or the business of watch, guard or patrol agency,] or advertise his, their or its business to be that of private investigator[, bail enforcement agent or watch, guard or patrol agency,] notwithstanding the name or title used in describing such agen- cy or notwithstanding the fact that other functions and services may also be performed for fee, hire or reward, without having first obtained from the department of state a license so to do, as hereinafter provided, for each bureau, agency, sub-agency, office and branch office to be owned, conducted, managed or maintained by such person, firm, EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02336-02-5
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