Be In the Know: Using the iTRAC database.

November 1, 2022

Exciting work is happening at ASHI that aims to help home inspectors feel even more knowledgeable out in the field.

ASHI’s Legislative Committee—part of the Member Relations Committee (MRC)—recently announced the release of state legislative and regulatory information on the members’ section of the ASHI website. This information contains current year activity by the states that could be quite valuable to home inspectors. It’s all part of iTRAC—a subsystem of the State Net computer system.

“iTRAC can give home inspectors an idea about what is happening in their states—now and in the future,” said Todd Edly of Home Inspections Plus in Michigan. Edly is currently the ASHI national legislative chairperson. He says the new program lets inspectors know who is proposing what legislation, providing insight before anything may happen. “Much of the legislation or regulations never make it out of the House, Senate, or Assembly,” he said.

ASHI began working with State Net in 2020 and added the iTRAC software in 2022. State Net collects the data for legislation and regulations. This information is then reviewed and prioritized by the ASHI Legislative Committee, after which iTRAC enters the most pertinent info directly into the easy-to-use, interactive ASHI state map.

“iTRAC is updated to ASHI daily,” Edly says. “Then the Legislation Committee reviews all legislations and regulations and decides what is important to us as home inspectors and our industry.”

Edly cautions, though, that iTRAC is not a code book. “It will not show you past legislation or regulations. It will only give you what is proposed now or in the future sessions.” Once the current session is over, the system will delete older legislation and regulations to make room for current information.

iTRAC and the ASHI Legislation map are updated weekly for all states, though not all states may always have anything of interest to the home inspection industry at the time. “When legislation is of interest it will be added automatically,” Edly said.

For more information, contact the MRC Legislative Committee at MRCLegislative@gmail.com.


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