The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) adopts the repeal of §535.71, concerning mandatory continuing education: approval of providers, courses and instructors, §535.72, concerning mandatory continuing education: presentation of courses, advertising and records, and §535.73, concerning compliance and enforcement without changes to the proposal as published in the June 25, 2004, issue of the Texas Register (29 TexReg 6037).

The sections are repealed because the subjects addressed in these sections will be covered in new sections TREC is simultaneously adopting as part of the Education Task Force recommendations regarding mandatory continuing education. As the new sections will comprehensively address the subjects of the repealed rules as well implement the Education Task Force recommendations, repeal of the rules is necessary to avoid confusion and repetition.

No comments were received in response to the notice of the proposed repeal as published in the above-referenced issue of the Texas Register.

The repeal is adopted under Texas Occupations Code, §1101.151, which authorizes the Texas Real Estate Commission to make and enforce all rules and regulations necessary for the performance of its duties and to establish standards of conduct and ethics for its licensees in keeping with the purpose and intent of the Act to insure compliance with the provisions of the Act.

The statute affected by this repeal is Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 1101. No other statute, code or article is affected by the repeal.