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Bill	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1809	California AB 1809 (20092010)	bill	Home inspections: energy audits.	enacted	Smyth	10	29	5	2010-02-10	2010-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/3517c5a2-9486-4d72-8022-8d845c9bebc8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1809	777857390f95dfe51810fe4cec2e81de4a6d65caf33fbca4825d38dc4547d7d0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. 03/15/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/24/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/26/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/16/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/23/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/03/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/29/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1809 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/30/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/3517c5a2-9486-4d72-8022-8d845c9bebc8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).