The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) adopts an amendment to §535.210 concerning Fees without changes to the proposed text as published in the March 3, 2006, issue of the Texas Register (31 TexReg 1406) and will not be republished. The amendment is adopted to implement revisions to Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 1102 enacted during the 79th Legislative Session, Regular Session (2005), by Senate Bill 810. Chapter 1102 was revised to require licensing and renewal of corporations and limited liability companies that engage in professional home inspecting for buyers and sellers in Texas.

The amendment to §535.210 adds a $5 fee to be charged to corporations and limited liability companies licensed as Texas professional inspectors for the annual renewal of the license. Given that the home inspector license renewal period will change to a 2-year cycle in July, 2006, the total amount due for each renewal is $10 to parallel an existing $10 application fee for those business entity licenses.

The reasoned justification for the amendment is to conform existing rules to recent statutory revisions.

No comments were received regarding the rule as proposed.

The amendment 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 adoption is Texas Occupations Code, Chapters 1101 and 1102. No other statute, code or article is affected by the adopted amendments.