I had a chance to meet and speak with a few folks from TX over the past few days at the ARELLO
Welcome to the ARELLO Web Site meeting in Banff Canada. Yes, changes are in store. From what I gathered the changes are needed and should help. Right now the home inspector advisory committee is just that, an advisory committee. They have no power, they are not paid for their time, and they can not even have a conference call (by law). In other words it is difficult for the committee to meet and to provide any assistance to TREC.
The goal is to have some changes made to make the home inspector advisory committee more functional and to provide some relief for the expenses encored by the folks on the committee. Will it happen? The consensus from the folks from TX, was Yes it will
The makeup of the TREC board was also a topic of discussion. Regulators from around the country were committing that the makeup of the board is not fair, but that's the way it is and change is unlikely.
On a side note: I also learned that on an average month TREC will receive about 10 complaints on inspectors. A large percentage are from sellers. The staff attorney for TREC said that she has to drop about 2/3 of the complaints due to the lack of proof or evidence to back up the complaint.