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Committee approves changes to home‑inspector oversight, extends complaint window and tightens FOIA access
Summary
Senate Bill 443 made multiple changes affecting home inspectors and appraisers: it extends the period for certain home‑inspection complaints, removes a single‑abstractor‑per‑county rule, and clarifies disclosure of complaint records. Supporters said the changes protect consumers and give regulators more time to surface construction or inspection‑
Senator Bryant and Department of Labor and Licensing counsel presented Senate Bill 443, a cleanup and policy package that affects appraisers, abstractors and home inspectors. The bill contains several components: it would remove an outdated limit that restricted abstractors to one county; it would combine funds for related licensing units; it would remove a statutory requirement that the board go into an executive session for deliberations during administrative hearings (bringing appraisers in line with other professions); and it would change how complaint records for home inspectors are handled under…
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