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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 655

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Relating to: regulation of home inspectors, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

Administrative rules Housing Safety and professional services department of

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, subject to certain exceptions, no individual may act as a

home inspector, use the title “home inspector," use any title or description that

implies that he or she is a home inspector, or represent himself or herself to be a home

inspector unless the individual is registered with the Department of Safety and

Professional Services. Similarly, no business entity may provide home inspection

services, and no business entity may use the title “home inspectors" to describe the

business entity's services, unless each of the home inspectors employed by the

business entity is so registered. In order to become a registered home inspector, an

individual must not have a disqualifying criminal record and must pass an

examination approved by DSPS. The practice of home inspectors is governed by

statutes and by rules promulgated by DSPS. This bill does the following with respect

to the law governing home inspectors:

1. Requires home inspectors to be licensed, rather than registered. The bill

grandfathers current registrants in as licensees.

2. Requires, in order to be granted a home inspector license, that an individual

complete 120 hours of instruction and 40 hours of field training, as well as the

requirements under current law for a home inspector registration.

3. Provides for reciprocal licensure of home inspectors licensed in other states

who have comparable or more stringent requirements.

4. Adjusts the contents that a report submitted by a home inspector to a client

is required to contain, including by adding a number of required elements for the

report and requiring defects to be identified as such.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Allen (R) , Brooks (R) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Magnafici (R) , Novak (R) , Sinicki (D) , Skowronski (R) , Spiros (R) , Subeck (D)

2 cosponsors

Bernier (R) , Olsen (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 Feb 18, 2020 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 Feb 18, 2020 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 Feb 18, 2020 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Utilities and Housing, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Mar 11, 2020 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Dec 5, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Brooks, Magnafici, Allen, Brostoff, Novak, Sinicki, Skowronski, Spiros, Subeck and C. Taylor; cosponsored by Senators Bernier and Olsen

  2. Dec 5, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform

  3. Dec 13, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jan 28, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Brooks

  5. Jan 30, 2020 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 10, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representatives Stuck and Brooks

  7. Feb 10, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Brooks

  8. Feb 11, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Stuck and Brooks

  9. Feb 13, 2020 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  10. Feb 17, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Brooks

  11. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform, Ayes 7, Noes 0

  12. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform, Ayes 7, Noes 0

  13. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform, Ayes 7, Noes 0

  14. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  15. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 10:26 AM on 2-20-2020 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 21

  16. Feb 19, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Brooks

  17. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  18. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  19. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  20. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  21. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  22. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  23. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  24. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  25. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  26. Feb 21, 2020 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  27. Feb 28, 2020 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Utilities and Housing

  28. Mar 9, 2020 · Senate

    Printed engrossed by the direction of the Senate Chief Clerk-5804

  29. Mar 10, 2020 · Senate

    LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1)

  30. Mar 10, 2020 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  31. Mar 11, 2020 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Utilities and Housing, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  32. Mar 11, 2020 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  33. Apr 1, 2020 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1