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(a)Sponsored Experience and Education Requirements
for a Real Estate Inspector License. To become licensed as a real
estate inspector a person must:
(1)satisfy the 90-hour education requirement for licensure
by completing the following coursework:
(A)Building Science Module I, total 40 hours;
(B)Building Science Module II, total 40 hours; and
(C)Business Operations and Professional Responsibilities
Module, total 10 hours;
(2)have been licensed as an apprentice inspector on
active status for a total of at least three months within the 12 month
period before the filing of the application;
(3)complete 25 inspections; and
(4)pass the licensure examinations set out in §535.209
of this title (relating to Examinations).
(b)Sponsored Experience and Education Requirements
for a Professional Inspector License. To become licensed as a professional
inspector, a person must:
(1)satisfy the 134-hour education requirement for
licensure by completing the following coursework:
(A)Building Science Module I, total 40 hours;
(B)Building Science Module II, total 40 hours;
(C)Business Operations and Professional Responsibilities
Module, total 10 hours;
(D)Texas Law Module, total 20 hours; and
(E)Texas Standards of Practice Module, total 24 hours;
(2)have been licensed as a real estate inspector on
active status for a total of at least 12 months within the 24 month
period before the filing of the application;
(3)complete 175 inspections; and
(4)pass the licensure examinations set out in §535.209
of this title.
(c)Sponsored Experience Criteria. To meet the experience
requirements for licensure under subsections (a) or (b) of this section,
or to sponsor apprentice inspectors or real estate inspectors, the
Commission considers an improvement to real property to be any unit
capable of being separately rented, leased or sold, subject to the
following restrictions:
(1)An inspection of an improvement to real property
that includes the structural and equipment/systems of the unit constitutes
a single inspection.
(2)The Commission may not give experience credit to
the same applicant or professional inspector for more than three inspections
per day. No more than three applicants may receive credit for the
inspection of the same unit within a 30-day period, and no more than
three apprentice inspectors may receive credit for an inspection of
the same unit on the same day.
(d)Substitute Experience and Education Requirements
for a Real Estate Inspector License. As an alternative to §535.212(a),
to become a licensed real estate inspector, a person must:
(1)be sponsored by a professional inspector;
(2)complete a total of 154 hours of qualifying inspection
coursework, which must include the following:
(A)Building Science Module I, total 40 hours;
(B)Building Science Module II, total 40 hours;
(C)Business Operations and Professional Responsibilities
Module, total 10 hours;
(D)Texas Standards of Practice Interactive Module,
total 24 hours; and
(E)Texas Practicum, total 40 hours; and
(3)pass the licensure examinations set out in §535.209
of this title.
(e)Substitute Experience and Education Requirements
for a Professional Inspector License. As an alternative to §535.212(b),
to become a licensed professional inspector, a person must:
(1)complete a total of 194 hours of qualifying inspection
coursework, which must include the following:
(A)Building Science Module I, total 40 hours;
(B)Building Science Module II, total 40 hours;
(C)Business Operations and Professional Responsibilities
Module, total 10 hours;
(D)Analysis of Findings and Reporting Module, total
20 hours;
(E)Texas Law Module, total 20 hours;
(F)Texas Standards of Practice Interactive Module,
total 24 hours; and
(G)Texas Practicum, total 40 hours; and
(2)pass the licensure examinations set out in §535.209
of this title.
(f)Courses completed for a real estate inspector license
shall count towards the identical qualifying inspection coursework
for licensure as a professional inspector if the course was completed
within five years of filing an application for a professional inspector
license.
The agency certifies that legal counsel has reviewed
the proposal and
found it to be within the state agency's legal authority
to adopt.
Filed with the Office
of the Secretary of State on May 8, 2019
TRD-201901378 Chelsea Buchholtz
General Counsel
Texas Real Estate Commission
Earliest possible date of adoption: June 23, 2019
For further information, please call: (512) 936-3177
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