---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home inspections: energy audits."
description: "Existing law provides that it is the duty of a home inspector, as defined, who is not licensed as a general contractor, structural pest control operator, or architect, or registered as a professional engineer, to conduct a home inspection, as defined, with the degree of care that a reasonably prudent home inspector would exercise. Existing law provides that a home inspection may include an inspection of energy efficiency, if requested by the client. Under existing law, a home inspection report is a written report consisting of specified information that is prepared for a fee and is issued after a home inspection."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1809"
citation: "California AB 1809 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Home inspections: energy audits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smyth"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2010-02-10"
last_action: "2010-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3517c5a2-9486-4d72-8022-8d845c9bebc8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1809"
source_hash: "777857390f95dfe51810fe4cec2e81de4a6d65caf33fbca4825d38dc4547d7d0"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1809 (20092010) — Home inspections: energy audits.

Existing law provides that it is the duty of a home inspector, as defined, who is not licensed as a general contractor, structural pest control operator, or architect, or registered as a professional engineer, to conduct a home inspection, as defined, with the degree of care that a reasonably prudent home inspector would exercise. Existing law provides that a home inspection may include an inspection of energy efficiency, if requested by the client. Under existing law, a home inspection report is a written report consisting of specified information that is prepared for a fee and is issued after a home inspection.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/10/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1809&version=20090AB180999INT)
2. **03/15/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1809&version=20090AB180998AMD)
3. **03/24/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1809&version=20090AB180997AMD)
4. **04/26/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1809&version=20090AB180996AMD)
5. **06/16/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1809&version=20090AB180995AMD)
6. **06/23/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1809&version=20090AB180994AMD)
7. **08/03/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1809&version=20090AB180993AMD)
8. **09/29/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1809&version=20090AB180991CHP)
9. **AB1809** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1809)
10. **08/30/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1809&version=20090AB180992ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1809 SMYTH Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1809 Smyth By Strickland — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1809 SMYTH Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Smyth — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2010-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
- **2010-02-25** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-03-16** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-03-24** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-03-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-26** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 4851.). `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-29** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4928.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-14** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2010-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-06-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-06-23** (Corrected June 29.)
- **2010-06-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-30** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2010-07-01** From Special Consent Calendar pursuant to Joint Rule 22.2.
- **2010-07-01** Ordered to third reading.
- **2010-08-03** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-12** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4491.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6520.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-09-02** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.
- **2010-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 453, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3517c5a2-9486-4d72-8022-8d845c9bebc8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).