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                                   8092
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 28, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property law, in  relation  to  requiring  real
   estate brokers and salespersons to complete a certain amount of sexual
   harassment prevention training
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 441 of  the  real
 property  law, as separately amended by chapters 686 and 688 of the laws
 of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) (I) No renewal license shall be issued  any  licensee  under  this
 article  for  any  license  period  commencing  November first, nineteen
 hundred ninety-five unless such licensee shall have within the two  year
 period  immediately  preceding such renewal attended at least twenty-two
 and one-half hours which shall include at least two  hours  of  cultural
 competency  training,  at least three hours of instruction pertaining to
 fair housing and/or discrimination in the sale or rental of real proper-
 ty or an interest in real property, at least two  hours  of  instruction
 pertaining  to  implicit  bias awareness and understanding, at least two
 and one-half hours of instruction pertaining to ethical  business  prac-
 tices,  at  least  one  hour  of  instruction pertaining to recent legal
 matters governing the practice of real estate brokers  and  salespersons
 in New York which may include statutes, laws, regulations, rules, codes,
 department  of  state opinions and decisions, and court decisions and at
 least one hour of instruction pertaining to the law of agency except  in
 the  case  of the initial two-year licensing term for real estate sales-
 persons, two hours of agency related instruction must be completed,  and
 successfully  completed  a  continuing  education  real estate course or
 courses approved by the secretary of state as  to  method,  content  and
 supervision,  which  approval  may be withdrawn if in the opinion of the
 secretary of state such course or courses are not being conducted  prop-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 erly  as  to  method,  content  and  supervision.  For those individuals
 licensed pursuant to subdivision six of section four hundred forty-two-g
 of this article, in the individual's  initial  license  term,  at  least
 eleven hours of the required twenty-two and one-half hours of continuing
 education shall be completed during the first year of the term. Of those
 eleven  hours,  three  hours  shall pertain to applicable New York state
 statutes and regulations governing the practice of real  estate  brokers
 and  salespersons. To establish compliance with the continuing education
 requirements imposed by this section, licensees shall provide an affida-
 vit, in a form acceptable to the department of state,  establishing  the
 nature  of  the  continuing  education  acquired  and shall provide such
 further proof as required by the department of state.   For purposes  of
 this  subdivision,  "implicit  bias"  shall mean the attitudes or stere-
 otypes that affect an individual's understanding, actions and  decisions
 in an unconscious manner.
   (II)  IN  ADDITION TO THE CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THIS
 SECTION, EVERY LICENSEE WITHIN THE TWO-YEAR PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING
 SUCH RENEWAL SHALL COMPLETE TWO SEXUAL  HARASSMENT  PREVENTION  TRAINING
 PROGRAMS  OF AT LEAST ONE HOUR EACH FOR A TOTAL OF TWO HOURS. ONE SEXUAL
 HARASSMENT PREVENTION TRAINING PROGRAM SHALL  BE  COMPLETED  DURING  THE
 FIRST  TWELVE  MONTHS OF SUCH TWO-YEAR PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING SUCH
 RENEWAL AND ONE SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION TRAINING PROGRAM  SHALL  BE
 COMPLETED  DURING THE SECOND TWELVE MONTHS OF SUCH TWO-YEAR PERIOD IMME-
 DIATELY PRECEDING SUCH RENEWAL. THE CONTENT OF  SUCH  SEXUAL  HARASSMENT
 TRAINING  PROGRAMS SHALL MEET THE REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH IN PARAGRAPHS A
 AND B OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED ONE-G OF THE LABOR  LAW.
 ANY  TIME A REAL ESTATE LICENSEE IS REQUIRED TO RENEW THEIR LICENSE THEY
 SHALL AFFIRM TO THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE THAT THEY ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH
 THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
 law.