Gov Purdue signed a bill last week to create a board for licensing of home inspectors. Have any of you Geogia inspectors read the bill or heard about it? It passed without much info coming out, I was just interested if any of you were asked for any input to the bill.

I've read it.

We've talked about it here and on TIJ (until the licensing vs. anti-licensing commandos hijack the thread, that is)...

I was not asked for input on the bill directly, though my local state senator asked me a number of questions regarding the terms "registered" and "certified" as pertains to HI's at a chamber get together a couple of years ago when an earlier version of the licensing bill was dead in the water in committee.

It seems to be a standard HI bill.

80 hours of training (or grandfathered with a fairly low # of paid inspections), and pass a recognized national test to get the license.

20 hours of CE per year, I believe...

In$urance as determined by the board.

The part I didn't like ('cause I've been to lazy and cheap to take the tests) says that the HI's gotta be certified in a particular code to cite that code in a report. Makes sense. Looks like I have some tests in my future....

There's no SOP, but the board may create one, I believe....

The board is made up of four (from memory, I may be wrong) HI's, one builder and one "civilian" (I bet the realtors try to get someone in this spot).

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