This is an important issue that I hope all Texas inspectors will take an interest. It is not a TAREI issue.

Eliminating the Inspector's committee from TREC is tantamount to Inspector genocide. It's bad enough now that a group of lawyers make decisions about alledged infractions committed by Inspectors, but at least there is an advisory committee that is available should the lawyers choose to seek counsel. Who, if not an Inspector Committee will be qualified to interpret current requirements of the Standards of Practice and to make suggestions for future additions, deletions and ammendments for the SOP?

TREC can claim all it wants to that it exists for the sole purpose of consumer protection. It has repeatedly demonstrated that it is a punitive watchdog and nothing more. Among the many rediculous proposals of these two bills is the lowering of standards (again) to get Inspectors into the business. Specifically, it proposes that a training school's accreditation cannot be renewed until it demonstrates that at least 55%its graduates pass the licensing exam on the first try. (Sec12). If that's not an incentive to "teach to test" instead of teach to learn, I don't know what is.

Texas is making it harder and harder for me to remain a proponent of licensing. On the one hand, I want the distinction of being professionally licensed. On the other is the reality that I know that I'm tugging on Superman's cape, spitting into the wind, AND pulling the mask of the Old Lone Ranger when I dare to hope that the sunset law will take effect and we will be placed where we belong; under the authority of the Texas department of Licensing and Regulation.

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