| (a) Experience as a real estate broker is accepted as experience for the purpose of applying for real estate broker licensure. (b) Applicable experience and education requirements may only be waived in accordance with the provisions of this section. (c) For the purposes of determining compliance with the requirement of §7(c) for two years active experience as a real estate salesperson, this period starts with date of actual issuance of license, and inactive periods brought about by lack of broker sponsorship, regardless of the reason, cannot be included as active experience. (d) A person's licensure history in another state or experience in real estate brokerage or any related business will not substitute for the educational requirements. (e) With respect to the education requirement of 60 semester hours in effect on or after January 1, 1985, the commission shall require not less
than 12 semester hours (180 classroom hours) in courses reflecting course titles or course descriptions in the real estate disciplines including, but not limited to, the statutory subject areas identified in the Act, §7(a) and §7(k). The commission will publish periodically guidelines as to the acceptability of related courses. Provided, however, that an applicant for broker licensure who was licensed as a salesperson subject to the annual education requirements set forth in this Act must provide the commission satisfactory evidence of having completed 12 semester (180 classroom hours) of core real estate courses that would have been required for the applicant's third annual renewal of salesperson licensure privileges. (f) The commission may waive education and experience required for a real estate broker license if the applicant satisfies the following conditions. (1) The applicant must have been licensed as a Texas real estate
broker or salesperson no more than six years prior to the filing of the application. (2) If the applicant was previously licensed as a Texas real estate broker, the applicant must have completed at least 15 hours of mandatory continuing education (MCE) courses within the two-year period prior to the filing of an application for an active license. If the applicant was previously licensed as a Texas real estate salesperson, the applicant must satisfy all current education requirements for an original broker license. (3) The applicant must have had not less than two years of active experience as a licensed real estate broker or salesperson during the eight-year period prior to the filing of the application.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §535.63 adopted to be effective January 1, 1976; amended to be effective November 14, 1979, 4 TexReg 3999; amended to be effective December 25, 1980, 5 TexReg 4909; amended to be effective August 27, 1981, 6 TexReg 3004; amended to be effective October 20, 1983, 8 TexReg 3997; amended to be effective March 30, 1987, 12 TexReg 824; amended July 14, 1987, 12 TexReg 2146 to be effective; amended to be effective April 1, 1996, 21 TexReg 1658; amended to be effective March 12, 1997, 22 TexReg 2428; amended to be effective December 1, 1997, 22 TexReg 11361.
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