Texas Broker Responsibility Course — 2025–2026 Cycle

Exam: Real Estate Broker — Texas Chapter: Chapter 1 — TRELA and TREC Rules CE Requirement: 6-hour mandatory CE course; required every 2 years for brokers and delegated supervisors Current cycle: 2025–2026 (supersedes the 2023–2024 course)

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Overview

The Broker Responsibility Course is a mandatory 6-hour continuing education course required for:

• All Texas broker licensees
• All designated supervisors (per TREC Rule §535.2)

The course changes each 2-year cycle to address current issues in broker supervision, enforcement trends, and regulatory updates. The 2025–2026 cycle is now the active version. Content referencing the 2023–2024 course topics is outdated.

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2025–2026 Cycle — New Topics

1. Delegated Supervisors and Real Estate Teams

• Structure of real estate teams under a sponsoring broker
• Accountability for team members — who supervises whom
• Compliance documentation for team structures
• Written designation requirements under TREC Rule §535.2

2. Ensuring Agent Competency

• Broker's training obligations for sponsored agents
• Verifying that agents complete required CE on schedule
• Documentation practices for agent training and supervision
• Consequences of sponsoring agents who are not competent for assigned tasks

3. Practical Documentation Requirements

• Written supervisor designations (required under §535.2)
• Buyer representation agreements — broker must ensure agents obtain these before touring
• Form version control: Agents must use current TREC promulgated form versions; the January 3, 2025 form set is mandatory
• Record-keeping requirements for supervision documentation

4. TREC Enforcement Case Patterns (2024–2025)

• Real disciplinary cases from TREC's enforcement docket
• Common scenarios: inadequate supervision, form violations, trust account errors, disclosure failures
• Brokers learning from peer disciplinary cases
• How TREC investigates and what evidence it looks for in supervision failure cases

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Broker Responsibility for Current Forms

A key 2025–2026 course emphasis: brokers are responsible for ensuring agents use current TREC mandatory form versions.

• The January 3, 2025 form set is the current mandatory version
• Using outdated TREC forms is a broker supervision failure, not merely an agent error
• Brokers should have documented procedures for:
- Notifying agents when form versions change - Verifying agents are using current forms in transactions - Correcting form errors before contracts are executed

> Exam Tip: The broker is accountable for ensuring agents use the January 3, 2025 form versions. An agent using the pre-January 2025 Third Party Financing Addendum (with the old one-step termination process) is a broker compliance problem.

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Who Must Take the Course

| Licensee Type | Requirement | |---|---| | Active TX broker | Required every 2 years | | Designated broker for an entity | Required every 2 years | | Delegated supervisor (under §535.2) | Required — same as broker | | Sales agent (not a delegated supervisor) | Not required for broker responsibility course; but must complete standard CE |

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Exam Tips

• Know that the 2025–2026 course is current — the 2023–2024 course has been superseded
• Know the four topic areas: teams/supervision, agent competency, documentation, enforcement cases
• Know that form version control is a broker responsibility — January 3, 2025 forms are mandatory
• Know that delegated supervisors must take the broker responsibility course (same as brokers)

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