Rubio
Author
Existing law, the Real Estate Law, establishes the Department of Real Estate, with the Real Estate Commissioner as its chief officer, and sets forth the powers and duties of the commissioner relating to the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and salespersons. Existing law requires an applicant for an original real estate broker license examination to successfully complete courses of study in specified subjects, including real estate practice, legal aspects of real estate, and real estate appraisal. Existing law specifies each of these courses to be a 3-semester unit course. Existing law also requires an applicant for a real estate salesperson license examination or for both the examination and license to successfully complete courses of study in specified subjects, including real estate principles and real estate practice. Existing law requires a licensee to successfully complete 45 hours of continuing education as a prerequisite to initial license renewal, including, among other things, a 3-hour course in fair housing. For subsequent renewals, the law requires a licensee to complete 45 hours of continuing education, including an 8-hour update survey course. This bill would revise the real estate practice course for an applicant for a real estate broker or salesperson license to include a component on implicit bias, as specified, and would revise the legal aspects of real estate course for that applicant to include a component on state and federal fair housing laws, as specified. The bill would require that fair housing component to include an interactive participatory component, as specified. The bill would revise the fair housing course requirement for initial license renewals to include an interactive participatory component, as specified. The bill would also require a licensee, as part of the licensee's 45 hours of continuing education, to successfully complete a 2-hour course in implicit bias training, as specified. The bill would increase the hours required for the update survey course to 9 hours. The bill would delay the operation of these provisions until January 1, 2023. This bill would revise the description of the courses required for an applicant for a real estate broker or salesperson license to be 3-unit semester courses.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 361, Statutes of 2021.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 3. Page 2554.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2913.) Ordered to the Senate.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 26).
July 14 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 912.) Ordered to the Assembly.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
Set for hearing March 22.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1. Page 405.) (March 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing March 8.
Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 27.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB263 | HTML |
| 01/27/21 - Introduced | |
| 06/28/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/13/21 - Enrolled | |
| 09/28/21 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/05/21- Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development | |
| 03/24/21- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 07/01/21- Assembly Business and Professions | |
| 07/12/21- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 08/31/21- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 09/08/21- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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