To establish a Home Inspection Licensing Board and require home inspectors to obtain a license to perform home inspections. The bill also details the definitions, requirements, conditions and related items necessary to create and administer home inspection licenses.   Official Text and Analysis.

To move the licensing program from DOL to the Department of Labor and Industries. To qualify to become licensed without a prior exam, a person must have been engaged in home inspections for two years and must have been licensed as a structural pest inspector for that two-year period. The makeup of the advisory board is slightly changed: five home inspectors; one licensed real estate broker; one home inspector certification program teacher; and one member of the general public. Qualification to become a licensed home inspector is changed. The applicant must: file an application; pay the fee; prove that 20 education points have been met, passed the exam; and currently licensed as a structural pest inspector. The following methods are listed by which the applicant can obtain the 20 education points: ten for a completed, three-credit hour minimum class with passing grade; one point for each completed three-hour minimum class with passing grade in construction, remodeling, engineering, architecture, building design, building technology or real estate; one point for each completed "ride-along" inspection; and one point for each completed three-hour minimum class in other programs approved by the board. Certain experiences can be substituted for some point requirements. Each licensee must complete 30 hours of continuing education every two years. If one has the proper insurance required to be a structural pest inspector, no additional insurance is required.

To strike the original language and insert new language relating to the licensing of home inspectors.

To change the date for the report to be submitted from December 1, 2008, to December 1, 2007.