What's happening
This bill doubles the required training hours for home inspector licensing in New York and directs the secretary to set rules for field-based training.
Why it matters
Increases the entry barrier for new home inspectors. by requiring double the amount of classroom and field training (from 140 to 280 total hours, with field hours rising from 40 to 80), which could reduce the number of new inspectors entering the profession and potentially raise service costs.
Aims to improve inspection quality and consumer protection. by ensuring that new inspectors have more hands-on, supervised experience before working independently, likely leading to more competent and knowledgeable practitioners.
Shifts regulatory authority to the secretary for field training. by mandating the creation of specific rules for the number and structure of unpaid field-based training hours, allowing for more detailed oversight and potential future adjustments to training standards.
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Who cares
Prospective home inspectors
Applicants using the course-of-study licensing path would need at least 200 training hours instead of 140, including at least 80 unpaid supervised field inspection hours instead of 40.
Home inspection training providers
Their approved courses would need to meet the higher total-hour and field-training minimums.
Licensed home inspectors, professional engineers and architects
Those supervising applicants’ field inspections would oversee a larger required unpaid training component while retaining responsibility for inspections and client reports.
New York Secretary of State
The bill would require rules governing the number and manner of unpaid field-based training hours.
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Increase Home Inspector Training
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Sponsors
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History
- Referred to judiciary
- Referred to judiciary
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2077
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to training requirements for home inspector licensing
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 444-e of the real property law, as amended by section 59 of part D of chapter 60 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
(i) have successfully completed a course of study of not less than [one] two hundred [forty] hours approved by the secretary, of which at least [forty] eighty hours shall have been in the form of unpaid field based inspections in the presence of and under the direct supervision of a home inspector licensed by the state of New York or a professional engineer or architect regulated by the state of New York who oversees and takes full responsibility for the inspection and any report provided to a client; or
§ 2. Section 444-l of the real property law, as amended by section 62 of part D of chapter 60 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
§ 444-l. Duties of the secretary. 1. The secretary shall establish such rules and regulations as shall be necessary to implement the provisions of this article.
2. The secretary shall establish rules and regulations pertaining to the number and manner of hours of unpaid field-based training required pursuant to subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section four hundred forty-four-e of this article.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05447-02-7
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