This following amendment repeals existing law regarding the Real Estate Commissioner’s notice to real estate licensees that have not completed their continuing education requirements.
Business and Professions Code 10156.2
Amended by S.B. No. 53
Effective: July 1, 2012
Existing law permits the Real Estate Commissioner (Commissioner) to advise real estate licensees who have not complied with continuing education requirements of their rights to operate before the expiration of their license.
The Commissioner may advise licensees of an extended period for compliance or advise the applicant that their right to operate under the prior license will expire either on the regular expiration date or five days from the date a notice that supplies this referenced advice is mailed, whichever is later. The commissioner must include their reasoning and the right of the applicant to request a hearing.
The amendment will render this law inoperative on July 1, 2012 and repeal this law as of January 1, 2013.
Now that’s a bad change in the law.
The licensing system in CA is completely tracked in Sacto by the computer programs now in place which includes “Continuing Education” requirements or satisfaction of those requirements.
What was the legislators’ thinking to allow this change to happen? I was always of the understanding the Department was funded entirely by dues we pay for our right to practice in the State.
How many agents keep track of their education requirements? Or, perhaps, a deal has been made wherein “private” education companies have been given that info (for a fee) and handle the task instead of DRE……