Florida Administrative Code › 61 - DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION › 61J2 - Florida Real Estate Commission › Chapter 61J2-3 - MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS › Section 61J2-3.010 - License Reactivation Education for Brokers and Sales Associates

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Brokers and sales associates holding an
				involuntarily inactive license may only maintain this status for 2 years. The
				first day of this allowable 2-year period is the first day the broker or sales
				associate failed to hold a valid and current active or voluntarily inactive
				license. After the second year, the broker's or sales associate's right to
				request an active or voluntarily inactive license automatically expires, by
				operation of law.
(2) A licensee
				may reactivate a license that has been involuntarily inactive for more than 12
				months but less than 24 months by satisfactorily completing 28 hours of a
				Commission-prescribed education course derived from the Florida Real Estate
				Commission Salesperson Course Syllabus (FREC Course I). The course shall
				contain coverage of the following topics: Real Estate License Law and
				Qualifications for Licensure (Session 2); Real Estate License Law and
				Commission Rules (Session 3); Authorized Relationships, Duties and Disclosure
				(Session 4); Real Estate Brokerage Activities and Procedures (Session 5);
				Violations of License Law, Penalties and Procedures (Session 6); Federal and
				State Laws Pertaining to Real Estate (Session 7); Real Estate Contracts
				(Session 11); Real Estate Related Computations and Closing of Transactions
				(Session 14); and Real Estate Investments and Business Opportunity Brokerage
				(Session 17).
(3) Students failing
				the Commission-prescribed end-of-course examination may retest a maximum of one
				time within one year of the original examination. Otherwise, students failing
				the Commission-prescribed end-of-course examination must repeat the course
				prior to being eligible to again take the end-of-course examination. Schools
				shall administer a different form of the end-of-course examination to a student
				who is retaking the exam or repeating the course.
(a) For all courses approved for classroom
				delivery, 50 minute hours means fifty minutes of classsroom instruction,
				exclusive of any breaks, recesses, or other time not spent in instruction.
				Classroom hours are the hours delivered live by an instructor in a classroom or
				by live streaming or any means of video conferencing technology while the
				students are in attendance at permitted or approved school locations.
(b) Any school requesting approval for a
				distance learning course via streaming video or any other means of video
				conferencing technology must submit to the DBPR at the time of course
				submission all course materials as well as information on the delivery method
				and software platform being used.
(c) When delivered by distance education, the
				course and examinaton shall comply with the "Course Approval criteria" as
				follows:
1. Distance learning necessitates a
				high level of self-direction and should, therefore, require students to read,
				conduct research, complete timed exams and similar assignments, designed to
				measure the student's competency relative to the required subject matter
				objectives. Distance learning study must be offered on a classroom hour per
				classroom hour basis.
2. Distance
				learning means the delivery of education offerings or courses via the internet
				and/or other interactive electronic media. Such offerings or courses shall be
				interactive, providing for the interchange of information between the student
				and instructor, and shall provide for the registration, evaluation, and
				monitoring of students. 50 minute hours for distance learning courses shall be
				the equivalent of the 50 minute classroom hour in a classroom delivery
				course.