The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) adopts amendments to §535.64 concerning Accreditation of Schools and Approval of Courses and Instructors without changes to the published text as proposed in the September 5, 2008, issue of the Texas Register (33 TexReg 7400) and will not be republished.

The amendments to §535.64 address the requirements of Texas Occupations Code §1101.301 and §1101.304 regarding the collection of exam passage rate data on graduates of TREC-accredited real estate schools. The amendments clarify that the last course taken for purposes of the data to be collected is the last core course taken from a TREC-accredited provider with 2 years of the date the person filed an education evaluation with the commission. Courses taken at schools that are not accredited by TREC, such as colleges and universities, will be not be collected or counted. The amendments also clarify that each type of licensing exam that a graduate takes for the first time will have a school affiliation unless the last core course taken by the applicant was taken at a school that was not TREC-accredited, or the course was taken more than 2 years before the date the graduate submitted an education evaluation to the commission.

The reasoned justification for the amendments to the rule is to implement statutory requirements to track exam passage rate on graduates of TREC-accredited real estate schools.

No comments were received on the amendments as proposed.

The amendments to the rule are 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 statutes affected by this adoption are Texas Occupations Code, Chapters 1101 and 1102. No other statute, code or article is affected by the adopted amendments.