Revision: Dec. 10, 2009, midnight
HB 1471 – AS INTRODUCED
2010 SESSION
10/05
HOUSE BILL 1471
AN ACT requiring the board of home inspectors to adopt rules developing documents relative to home energy audits and energy efficiency for home buyers and relative to continuing education for home inspectors.
SPONSORS: Rep. R. Read, Rock 16; Rep. Borden, Rock 18; Rep. Pastor, Graf 9; Sen. Merrill, Dist 21
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
This bill requires the board of home inspectors to adopt rules developing documents to be provided to home buyers outlining the procedures and benefits of a home energy audit and energy efficiency. This bill also adds a continuing education requirement for home inspectors concerning home energy efficiency.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
10-2235
10/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT requiring the board of home inspectors to adopt rules developing documents relative to home energy audits and energy efficiency for home buyers and relative to continuing education for home inspectors.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Home Inspectors; Rulemaking; Home Energy Audits; Energy Efficiency. Amend RSA 310-A by inserting after section 188 the following new section:
310-A:188-a Home Energy Audits; Energy Efficiency; Rulemaking. The board of home inspectors, in consultation with governor’s office of energy and planning, shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A to develop documents which shall be provided by home inspectors to clients who are buyers or prospective buyers of single-family residential dwellings or condominium units. The documents shall be provided at the time the home inspector provides the buyer or prospective buyer with the inspector’s property report. The document shall outline the procedures and benefits of a home energy audit and energy efficiency. No additional fees shall be imposed or collected in connection with the development and provision of such documents.
2 Home Inspectors; Continuing Education; Energy Efficiency. Amend RSA 310-A:192 to read as follows:
310-A:192 Continuing Education. Evidence satisfactory to the board of the completion in each 2-year renewal period of a minimum of 20 hours of continuing education shall be required for license renewal, provided that one hour of the 20 required hours shall be from a board-approved course on appropriate building regulations including any recent revisions to regulations, and one hour of the 20 required hours shall be from a board approved course on the basic elements of home energy efficiency including the economic and environmental benefits of home energy efficiency. The board shall approve educational courses and activities that would further the professional competence of licensees. The continuing education credits shall be determined on the basis of one credit for each contact hour of course instruction or professional development activity actually attended by a licensee.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.