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Senate subcommittee amends bill to let real‑estate licensees delay broker fees until year end
Summary
A Senate subcommittee amended and advanced Senate File 15 to allow individuals converting from real‑estate agent to broker to delay broker licensing fees—adding exemptions for auctions, multi‑dwelling sales and non‑habitable properties.
Senator Webster opened the subcommittee discussion on Senate File 15, saying the bill “applies for, the change of a license of a real estate, person going possibly from an agent, to a broker.” The bill would let licensees postpone the broker licensing effective date in most cases to the end of the calendar year so they do not have to pay two separate fees in a short period.
The subcommittee approved an amendment Webster described as “a cleanup amendment from last year.” The amendment expands exemptions that had been included in last year’s bill for open houses to also cover auction properties, transactions involving more than four dwellings and transfers of properties “not intended for human habitants,” according to the amendment text read on the record.
The amendment was moved on the floor by Senator Webster and adopted by voice vote. The panel then returned to the bill as amended; a voice vote on passage sent Senate File 15 “to the calendar under rule 40,” as announced on the record.
Why it matters: The change is intended to reduce duplicate fee charges when a licensee changes classification partway through a calendar year. The amendment clarifies several transaction categories that will be exempt from the timing rule.
The committee did not record individual roll‑call tallies in the transcript. The proceedings on this item began with Webster’s opening remarks and concluded when the committee chair announced the bill moved to the calendar.
