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TITLE 22EXAMINING BOARDS
PART 23TEXAS REAL ESTATE COMMISSION
CHAPTER 535GENERAL PROVISIONS
SUBCHAPTER EREQUIREMENTS FOR LICENSURE
RULE §535.55Education and Sponsorship Requirements for a Sales Agent License
Historical Texas Register

(a) Education requirements for an initial sales agent license. An applicant for an initial sales agent license must provide the Commission with satisfactory evidence of completion of 180 hours of qualifying real estate courses as required under the Act as follows:

  (1) 60 hours of Principles of Real Estate;

  (2) 30 hours of Law of Agency;

  (3) 30 hours of Law of Contracts;

  (4) 30 hours of Promulgated Contracts Forms; and

  (5) 30 hours of Real Estate Finance.

(b) Additional education requirements. A sales agent must complete an additional 90 classroom hours in qualifying courses by the expiration date of the sales agent's initial licensing period and report those hours in accordance with the requirements of §535.91 of this title.

(c) The Commission may waive the education required for a real estate sales agent license if the applicant:

  (1) was licensed either as a Texas real estate broker or as a Texas real estate sales agent within two years before the filing of the application; and

  (2) completed any qualifying real estate courses or real estate related courses that would have been required for a timely renewal of the prior license, or, if the renewal of the prior license was not subject to the completion of qualifying real estate courses or real estate related courses, completed at least the number of hours of continuing education courses required by §535.92(a) of this title within the two-year period before filing an application for an active license.

(d) The Commission will issue an applicant an inactive sales agent license upon satisfaction of subsection (a) of this section and subsection (c) of §535.57. An inactive sales agent may not practice as a licensed sales agent until sponsored by an active Texas licensed broker.


Source Note: The provisions of this §535.55 adopted to be effective January 1, 2011, 35 TexReg 11677; amended to be effective November 1, 2011, 36 TexReg 7327; amended to be effective January 1, 2015, 39 TexReg 9669; amended to be effective September 7, 2016, 41 TexReg 6738; amended to be effective December 9, 2018, 43 TexReg 7898

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