90 hours of core education required before taking a test. Additional 30 hour of education required plus 8 hr yearly CEU requirement. Recovery fund established for negligence claims instead of Surety Bond. No one is grand fathered. March 1987 Regulative action.
Concerns exist about inspectors now being a party to the Sales Contract.
January 1989 Regulative action. Payments from the Recovery Fund results in revocation of the Inspector s license. February 1990 Pre-Legislative action. Recommendation also includes creation of Inspector Committee, as well as limits ability of legislature to take Recovery funds for General Fund use. Compromise on Sunset recommendation made because of intense lobby pressure by Texas Association of Realtors.