Action | 2020-2021 General Review of Home Inspector Licensing Regulations |
Stage | NOIRA |
Comment Period | Ended on 8/18/2021 |
Inspection Certification Associates would like to request that the following rule regarding the qualifications for home inspector licensure be reviewed and revised during this period of General Review:
18VAC15-40-32. Qualifications for licensure.
B. Prelicense education courses must be approved by the board pursuant to Part VI (18VAC15-40-120 et seq.) of this chapter. No more than half of the required hours may be completed using distance or online education technology.
It is our belief that applicants for a home inspector license in Virginia can successfully complete the live portion of their prelicense education course contact hours via synchronous distance learning. As a result, we believe 18VAC15-40-32.(B) should be rewritten to following effect:
“Prelicense education courses must be approved by the board pursuant to Part VI (18VAC15-40-120 et seq.) of this chapter. No more than half of the required hours may be completed using asynchronous distance or online education technology. The remaining required hours must be completed via synchronous learning which includes online webinar technology.”
During the pandemic, completion of the live classroom hours via webinar was a forced necessity to prevent the spread of the virus. However, an unexpected benefit of this situation was the great success of our prelicense students who attended our synchronous online webinars. We believe the cause of this success was due to many factors, including: