Date of Adoption: January 8, 2002.

     Purpose: To mandate three clock hours of prescribed core curriculum for real estate licensees license renewal.

     Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 308-124H-025.

     Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 18.85.040(1), 43.24.086.

      Adopted under notice filed as WSR 01-23-004 on November 7, 2001.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 4 [1], Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 2 [1], Amended 4 [1], Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 2 [1], Amended 4 [1], Repealed 0;      Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
     Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

January 8, 2002

Alan E. Rathbun, Assistant Director

Business and Professions Division

OTS-5060.3

NEW SECTION
WAC 308-124H-014   Establishing time frame for approval of core curriculum.   The first required core curriculum continuing education courses will be offered for eighteen months, beginning June 1, 2002, ending December 31, 2003. Following the initial introductory core curriculum, the approval period for courses designated as satisfying the core curriculum(s) shall be from January 1 through December 31, a two-year (twenty-four month) period. Courses submitted and approved prior to the two-year period will not be allowed to commence for core curriculum credit until January 1. Courses submitted later than January 1, will still have an expiration date of December 31, making that course approval period less than two years.

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     (1) Be offered by a private entity approved by the director to operate as a school;

     (2) Be offered by a tax-supported, public technical or community college or other institution of higher learning that certifies clock hours as indicated in RCW 18.85.010(9), consistent with the approval standards prescribed by the director and this chapter;

     (3) Be offered by the Washington real estate commission;

     (4) Have a minimum of three hours of course work or instruction for the student. A clock-hour is a period of fifty minutes of actual instruction;

     (((4))) (5) Provide practical information related to the practice of real estate in any of the following real estate topic areas: Fundamentals, practices, principles/essentials, real estate law, legal aspects, brokerage management, business management, taxation, appraisal, evaluating real estate and business opportunities, property management and leasing, construction and land development, ethics and standards of practice, real estate closing practices, current trends and issues, finance, hazardous waste and other environmental issues, commercial, real estate sales and marketing, instructor development or the use of computers and/or other technologies as applied to the practice of real estate;

     (((5))) (6) Be under the supervision of an instructor approved to teach the topic area, who shall, at a minimum, be available to respond to specific questions from students on an immediate or reasonably delayed basis;

     (((6))) (7) The following types of courses will not be approved for clock hours: Course offerings in mechanical office and business skills, such as, keyboarding, speed-reading, memory improvement, language, and report writing; orientation courses for licensees, such as those offered by trade associations; and personal and sales motivation courses or sales meetings held in conjunction with a licensee's general business. Clock hours will not be awarded for any course time devoted to meals or transportation;

     (((7))) (8) Courses of thirty clock hours or more which are submitted for approval shall include a comprehensive examination(s) and answer key(s) of no fewer than three questions per clock hour with a minimum of ninety questions, and a requirement of passing course grade of at least seventy percent; essay question examination keys shall identify the material to be tested and the points assigned for each question;

     (((8))) (9) Include textbook or instructional materials approved by the director, which shall be kept accurate and current; ((and))

     (((9))) (10) Not have a title which misleads the public as to the subject matter of the course;

     (11) Courses offering the prescribed core curriculum shall meet the requirements of WAC 308-124A-605;

     (12) Only primary providers shall be approved to teach the prescribed core curriculum; and

     (13) Course providers offering core curriculum within a course exceeding three clock hours must clearly indicate in the application for approval where the core curriculum elements are met in the course.

[Statutory Authority: RCW 18.85.040 and The Governor's Order on Regulatory Improvement 97-02. 00-08-035, § 308-124H-025, filed 3/29/00, effective 7/1/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.85.040 and chapter 18.86 RCW. 97-01-027, § 308-124H-025, filed 12/10/96, effective 1/10/97. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.85.040 and SB 6284. 95-03-012, § 308-124H-025, filed 1/5/95, effective 7/1/95. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.85.040. 91-23-006, § 308-124H-025, filed 11/7/91, effective 12/8/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.85.040, [18.85].085, [18.85].090 and [18.85].095. 91-07-029, § 308-124H-025, filed 3/14/91, effective 4/14/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.85.040. 90-10-010, § 308-124H-025, filed 4/20/90, effective 8/1/90.]

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