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Senate Bill S5780

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires real estate brokers and salespersons to complete a certain amount of sexual harassment prevention training

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2025-S5780 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8092
Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Real Property Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §441, RP L

2025-S5780 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires real estate brokers and salespersons to complete two hours of sexual harassment prevention training every two years.

2025-S5780 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5780 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5780
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed 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.
                                                            LBD10381-01-5

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