Commission staff presented an implementation update on legislative changes that the agency must put into effect over the coming months and years.

Staff said S.B. 711 will require condominium associations to upload management certificates to hoa.texas.gov; the commission is coordinating with web developers to update that site so users can distinguish condo associations from property owners associations when S.B. 711 becomes effective Sept. 1.

Staff described H.B. 5629 (military/licensure): effective Sept. 1, the statute removes a "substantially equivalent" requirement that had complicated reciprocity for service members; the change also adds veterans. Staff said they will add fields and reporting tags in the Realm portal to identify applicants licensed under the new state route and to generate quarterly complaint reports required by statute while protecting confidential information.

S.B. 1968, described by staff as a housekeeping bill effective Jan. 1, 2026, will require a broker-responsibility course for all brokers on renewal and give the commission rulemaking authority to adjust qualifying education requirements by rule rather than by statute. Director Jennifer Wheeler was noted as the staff member who will discuss practical implications for qualifying education.

Staff also explained statutory changes requiring associated broker affiliations to be collected and displayed: associated brokers must identify their affiliation in the portal, and the commission will enable a verification step so sponsor brokers can confirm the association before it appears on the public license-holder search.

Another change under recent legislation requires license holders' business contact information to be collected for public display in a designated field in the portal. Staff said that collection is separate from the service or mailing address required for agency records and that a P.O. box may be used for the publicly displayed business contact.

Staff warned that the commission's authority to publish business-contact data and where that information appears (for example, high-value datasets used by third parties) remains under discussion. They said the commission is weighing how to provide timestamps or nightly update signals to data consumers who maintain external license-holder files.

Staff said other statutory changes discussed in the meeting — including updates to notice rules and nonrepresentation status forms — will be handled through rulemaking and guidance documents. They recommended continuing stakeholder outreach as rules and portal fields are configured.

Staff asked commissioners whether a rule to clarify the temporary-suspension process would be useful; that topic was discussed separately in the meeting's enforcement workshop.