AB 2540, as introduced, Dababneh. Real estate license applications: email address.
Under the Real Estate Law, the California Bureau of Real Estate, which is headed by the Real Estate Commissioner, issues licenses to and regulates real estate brokers and real estate salespersons. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to prescribe the format and content of the written applications for the real estate broker examination, broker license, and salesperson examination.
This bill would authorize the commissioner to additionally prescribe the form and content of the application for both the real estate salesperson examination and license, and would require that each of those 4 applications require the applicant to provide a valid email address at which the bureau may contact the applicant.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 10150 of the Business and Professions
2Code is amended to read:
(a) Application for the real estate broker license
2examination shall be made in writing to the commissioner. The
3commissioner may prescribe the format and content of the broker
4examination application. The application for the broker
5examination shall be accompanied by the real estate broker license
6examination fee.
7(b) Persons who have been notified by the commissioner that
8they passed the real estate broker license examination may apply
9for a real estate broker license. A person applying for the broker
10examination may also apply for a real estate broker license.
11However, a license shall not be issued until the applicant passes
12the real estate broker license examination. If there is any change
13to the information contained in a real estate broker license
14application
after the application has been submitted and before the
15license has been issued, the commissioner may require the applicant
16to submit a supplement to the application listing the changed
17information.
18(c) Application for the real estate broker license shall be made
19in writing to the commissioner. The commissioner may prescribe
20the format and content of the broker license application. The
21application for the real estate broker license shallbegin insert require an
22applicant to provide a valid email address at which the bureau
23may contact the applicant and shallend insert be accompanied by the
24appropriate fee.
25(d) Application for an endorsement to act as a mortgage loan
26originator, as defined in Section 10166.01, shall be made either
27electronically or in writing as directed by the commissioner. The
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commissioner may prescribe the format and content of the
29mortgage loan originator endorsement application, which shall
30meet the minimum requirements for licensing of a mortgage loan
31originator, pursuant to the Secure and Fair Enforcement for
32Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-289).
Section 10151 of the Business and Professions Code
34 is amended to read:
(a) Application for the real estate salesperson license
36examination shall be made in writing to the commissioner. The
37commissioner may prescribe the format and content of the
38salesperson examination application. The application for the
39salesperson examination shallbegin insert require an applicant to provide a
40valid email address at which the bureau may contact the applicant
P3 1and shallend insert be accompanied by the real estate salesperson license
2examination fee.
3(b) Persons who have been notified by the commissioner that
4they passed the real estate salesperson license examination may
5apply for a real estate salesperson license. A person applying for
6the salesperson examination
may also apply for a real estate
7salesperson license. However, a license shall not be issued until
8the applicant passes the real estate salesperson license examination.
9If there is any change to the information contained in a real estate
10salesperson license application after the application has been
11submitted and before the license has been issued, the commissioner
12may require the applicant to submit a supplement to the application
13listing the changed information.
14(c) begin deleteAn end deletebegin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertThe commissioner may prescribe the format and
15content of the application for both the examination and license.
16The application shall require the applicant to provide a valid email
17address at which the bureau may contact the applicant.end insert
18begin insert(2)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertAnend insert application for the real estate salesperson license
19examination or for both the examination and license that is received
20by the commissioner on or after October 1, 2007, shall include
21evidence or certification, satisfactory to the commissioner, of
22successful completion at an accredited institution of a
23three-semester unit course, or the quarter equivalent thereof, or
24successful completion of an equivalent course of study as defined
25in Section 10153.5, in real estate principles as well as the successful
26completion at an accredited institution of a course in real estate
27practice and one additional course set forth in Section 10153.2,
28other than real estate principles, real estate practice, advanced legal
29aspects of real estate,
advanced real estate finance, or advanced
30real estate appraisal. The applicant shall provide this evidence or
31certification to the commissioner prior to taking the real estate
32salesperson license examination.
33(d) The commissioner shall waive the requirements of this
34section for the following applicants:
35(1) An applicant who is a member of the State Bar of California.
36(2) An applicant who has qualified to take the examination for
37an original real estate broker license by satisfying the requirements
38of Section 10153.2.
39(e) Application for endorsement to act as a mortgage loan
40originator, as defined in Section 10166.01, shall be made either
P4 1electronically or in writing as directed by the commissioner. The
2commissioner may prescribe the format and the
content of the
3mortgage loan originator endorsement application, which shall
4meet the minimum requirements for licensing of a mortgage loan
5originator, pursuant to the Secure and Fair Enforcement for
6Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-289).
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