What changes have been made to DREs continuing education requirements in the last five years?
In the last four years, there have been two significant changes to DRE’s continuing education requirements for license renewal: Effective July 1st, 2007, all licensees are required to complete a DRE-approved three-hour continuing education in risk management. This requirement was established by Assembly Bill 223 (AB 223), sponsored by the California Association of Realtors. Effective October 1st, 2007, Assembly Bill 2429 sponsored by the California Association of Realtors Realtors eliminated the salesperson conditional license. As a consequence of this change, the DRE now requires first-time renewing salesperson licensees with an original license issued on or after 10/01/2007 to take a full 45-hours of CE. Effective March 1st, 2008, the DRE began enforcing Commissioner’s Regulation 3007.3(a)(3) which limits the number of credit hours which a licensee can complete to 15 hours in any 24-hour period. At the same time, it began enforcing a new rule that the minimum passing score for any co
