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TREC workshop considers alternate pathway letting experience substitute for part of broker education
Summary
The Texas Real Estate Commission’s advisory committee proposed allowing up to 300 hours of broker-related education to be replaced with documented experience, adjusting how property‑management and delegated‑supervisor experience are counted and seeking feedback before drafting rules.
At a Texas Real Estate Commission workshop, staff presented a recommendation from the Broker Responsibility Advisory Committee to create an alternate pathway for initial broker licensure that would allow some field experience to substitute for part of the broker education requirement.
Under current rules described at the meeting, an applicant for a Texas broker license must complete 270 hours of qualifying real estate courses and 630 hours of “real estate‑related” education, and must demonstrate at least four years of active experience in the five years preceding the application totaling 360 experience points. Last legislative session, Senate Bill 1577 gave the commission rulemaking authority over the education requirement; the commission previously already had rule authority over experience calculations.
The committee’s principal proposal would leave the statutory minimums in place but create a substitute…
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