{"id":29902,"date":"2021-04-06T12:24:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=29902"},"modified":"2021-04-06T12:24:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:24:51","slug":"home-inspectors-registry-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=29902","title":{"rendered":"Home inspectors registry advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home inspectors in Nebraska would be required to register with the state under a bill advanced from general file April 6.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24409\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24409\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24409\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542114504&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenLathrop_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Steve Lathrop&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Steve Lathrop&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24409\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Steve Lathrop\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Steve Lathrop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB423, introduced by Omaha Sen. Steve Lathrop, would require Nebraska home inspectors to register with the Nebraska secretary of state, pay a registration fee and provide a certificate of general liability insurance of not less than $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>LB423 would take effect Jan. 1, 2023, and violations of the bill\u2019s provisions would be a Class IV misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p>Under current law, home inspectors are not required to be licensed or register with the state, Lathrop said, leaving home buyers without recourse if inspectors overlook a defect that is costly to repair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal is simply to provide a minimum level of accountability for home inspectors and provide Nebraskans with some protection when making what is often the largest purchase of their lives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>An Urban Affairs Committee amendment, adopted 43-0, would establish a maximum registration fee of $300 and allow an inspector to list any national home inspection certification he or she holds.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers advanced LB423 to select file on a 41-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home inspectors in Nebraska would be required to register with the state under a bill advanced from general file April 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-29902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-urban-affairs","tag-sen-steve-lathrop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LB423LathropHilgers4-6-21.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29903,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902\/revisions\/29903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}