---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING HOME INSPECTORS AND APPRAISERS."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING HOME INSPECTORS AND APPRAISERS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 7286"
citation: "Connecticut HB 7286 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Building materials", "Consumer Protection Department", "Home inspectors", "Real estate appraisers", "State regulations", "specific"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bizzarro, Gennaro", "Serra, Joseph C.", "Somers, Heather S."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-01"
last_action: "2019-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc33a9d1-7a06-4793-9715-ed9d44a55c5b"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "ace2d32c417fb1d28573d75dbec265cbc12fa12aee339df3544cde9c588fe050"
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-ct"]
---

# Connecticut HB 7286 (2019) — AN ACT CONCERNING HOME INSPECTORS AND APPRAISERS.

## Version chain

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

1. **GL Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/h/pdf/2019HB-07286-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/h/pdf/2019HB-07286-R00-HB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Bizzarro, Gennaro — primary (person)
- Serra, Joseph C. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather S. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-01** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON General Law `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** PUBLIC HEARING 0312
- **2019-03-21** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** FILED WITH LCO
- **2019-04-01** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/08/19
- **2019-04-08** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2019-04-08** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2019-04-08** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 321
- **2019-04-08** FILE NO. 494
- **2019-05-23** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-05-23** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2019-05-28** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2019-05-28** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 616
- **2019-05-28** FILE NO. 1008
- **2019-06-05** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-05** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-05** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2019-06-25** PUBLIC ACT 19-183 `became-law`
- **2019-06-28** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2019-06-28** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2019-07-09** SIGNED BY GOVERNOR `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc33a9d1-7a06-4793-9715-ed9d44a55c5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).