Jim Bushart - You Said:
“Second, the wording of Barnes’ education policy specifically excludes all NACHI education (on-line or seminar) in favor of an already in place ASHI educator. Rural inspectors must travel to where his permanent facility is in order for their CEUs”.
NOT TRUE - The various wordings of things like the PROPOSED “Rules and Regulations” for Kansas Home Inspectors and the language of the **NEW **Bill (HB-2260) is **TRYING **to push ALL continuing education AND Entry level education in Kansas **UNDER **the Kansas State Regents Board (the group that governs colleges, universities, BIG Trade or Vo-Tech Schools like Vatterott, ITA/Kaplan, etc).
The language of the **NEW **Bill (HB-2260) also states the Kansas Home Inspector Review Board can hire OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS / AGENCIES to: "help approve courses of study, educational providers and providers of continuing education and continuing education courses meeting the standards for approval established by rules and regulations of the board; and contract with agencies or consultants as necessary to assist the board in obtaining information about educational providers qualifications, etc, etc".
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The ONLY thing that could possibly EXCLUDE anybody is the “Rules or Regulations” of the HI Board OR the costs involved with getting set up to be APPROVED by the Kansas Board of Regents - Little Things like owning your own building or having a 2-3 year lease on one; a $800 APPLICATION fee for in-state providers and $1,200 APPLICATION fee for out of state providers; having $1,000,000 insurance policies and $100,000 bonds on wherever you hold classes; ADA access to sites the classes are at.
So Jim - As you can plainly see, there is NOTHING in this Bill’s wording that EXCLUDES InterNACHI or NAHI or Anybody. That EXCLUDING people would all be TAKEN CARE OF by the State Board of Regents or the SPECIAL CONSULTANTS hired by the Board.
Oh - If memory serves me correctly ONCE they approve your 1 place / I believe you can just about trot alll over the state and teach in a POLE BARN if you want. Now the Kansas HI Board DID NOT slam that language ONTO us; the Realtors DID NOT slam that crap ONTO us. The legislators DID NOT slam that language ONTO us. YOU be astute and GUESS who did.
I sat in sessions at the Kansas Home Inspectors Review Board where we were told by 1 Board Member that ALL CE or ENTRY level education in KANSAS for LICENSED professions was required to be CONTROLLED and UNDER the Kansas State Regents Board - I brought up several times there are a BUNCH of professions that are NOT. IT IS MY TRUE BELIEF THAT SOMEONE OR SOMEONES WANT US TO BE GOVERNED THIS WAY. That could allow them to say - they DID NOT exclude ANYBODY, the Regents Board did that. That way if there was a lawsuit, these somebodies could have a State Agency paying to defend them.
See the attached list of licensed Kansas professions NOT under the REGENTS BOARD. Most of the professions not requiring a college degree or lengthy vo-tech program are NOT under or WITH the Kansas Regents Board.
As home inspectors its NOT in our best interest to let ourselves get PLACED under the Regents Board. That is what would CHANNEL all education to the SPECIAL INTEREST groups.