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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6054

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senator Moore

Read first time 2/27/89 and referred to Committee on   Economic Development & Labor.

AN ACT Relating to the minimum qualifications for renewal of a real estate salesperson's license; and amending RCW 18.85.095.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 7, chapter 139, Laws of 1972 ex. sess. as last amended by section 3, chapter 205, Laws of 1988 and RCW 18.85.095 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) It is hereby established that the minimum requirements for an individual to receive a salesperson's license are that the individual:

           (a) Is eighteen years of age or older;

           (b) Has passed a salesperson's examination; and

           (c) Except as provided in RCW 18.85.097, has successfully completed a thirty clock hour course in real estate fundamentals prior to obtaining a first real estate license.

          (2) Except as provided in RCW 18.85.097, no licensed salesperson shall have his or her license renewed a second time unless he or she furnishes proof, as the director may require, that he or she has successfully completed an additional thirty clock hours of instruction in real estate courses approved by the director: PROVIDED, That the provisions of this subsection do not apply to a salesperson who has held a Washington state real estate license for twenty-five years.  This subsection shall expire January 1, 1991.

          Nothing in this section shall apply to persons who are licensed as salespersons under any real estate license law in Washington which exists prior to this law's enactment and whose license has not been subsequently revoked.