BILL NUMBER: S7159
SPONSOR: CLEARE
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to compensation for
required code enforcement personnel training
 
PURPOSE OF BILL::
To provide payment for required code enforcement personnel training.
 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS::
Section 1 provides all code enforcement personnel shall be paid for any
training required at a rate set by the Secretary of State.
Section 2 sets forth an effective date-90 days.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Payment for code enforcement personnel would achieve two essential
objectives. Firstly, compensation would encourage further employment of
code enforcement personnel. With an increase in employment of code
enforcement personnel, more safe housing would be readily available for
tenants and homeowners. Secondly, compensation for this training would
increase the pool of candidates of code enforcement personnel. This
increase would improve the quality of code enforcement personnel and
would lead to a higher standard of the code and safer housing.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY::
2023: Reported From Housing To Finance.
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS::
To be Arrived At.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE::
Ninetieth day.

Statutes affected:
S7159: 376-a executive law