REAL ESTATE/COMMISSION: Provides for expired and inactive real estate license requirements
This bill updates the requirements for real estate brokers and salespeople in Louisiana to clarify how they can regain their licenses after expiration or inactivity. It allows individuals who let their licenses lapse to reapply within a specific window without having to complete the full initial education hours again. Specifically, brokers and salespeople who renew their application by the end of the year following their expiration date can skip the standard 150-hour broker course or 90-hour salesperson course. Additionally, the law states that inactive licensees do not need to complete annual continuing education while their license is inactive, though they must finish required training before returning to active status.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
Apr 2024
House Passage
Mar 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
May 2024
Introduced Feb 23, 2024
Signed May 23, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 16, 2024 · House Mar 20, 2024
How they voted
33–0
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 37
May 16, 2024
D
Democratic12
91% Yea
R
Republican25
88% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 16, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Apr 29, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
Apr 24, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Mar 20, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Mar 18, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (17-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
Feb 23, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
1 primary · 21 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Polly Thomas
RRepublican
Co
Adrian Fisher
DDemocratic
Co
Alonzo Knox
DDemocratic
Co
BA
Beryl Amedée
RRepublican
Co
Beth Billings
RRepublican
Co
Brian Glorioso
RRepublican
Co
Delisha Boyd
DDemocratic
Co
Francis Thompson
RRepublican
Co
Jason DeWitt
RRepublican
Co
Jeff Wiley
RRepublican
Co
John Wyble
RRepublican
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