Bill Amendment: FL S1398 | 2013 | Regular Session

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Bill Title: Real Estate Appraisers

Status: 2013-06-17 - Chapter No. 2013-182 [S1398 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-S1398-Judiciary_Committee_Amendment_Delete_All_649216.html

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       Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1398
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/09/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Bradley) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 475.617, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    6  read:
    7         475.617 Education and experience requirements.—
    8         (1) To be registered as a trainee appraiser, an applicant
    9  must present evidence satisfactory to the board that she or he
   10  has successfully completed at least 100 hours of approved
   11  qualifying education academic courses in subjects related to
   12  real estate appraisal, which must include coverage of the
   13  Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, or its
   14  equivalent, as established by rule of the board, from a
   15  nationally recognized or state-recognized appraisal
   16  organization, career center, accredited community college,
   17  college, or university, state or federal agency or commission,
   18  or proprietary real estate school that holds a permit pursuant
   19  to s. 475.451. The board may increase the required number of
   20  hours to not more than 125 hours. All qualifying education
   21  courses may be completed through in-person classroom instruction
   22  or distance learning. A classroom hour is defined as 50 minutes
   23  out of each 60-minute segment. Past courses may be approved on
   24  an hour-for-hour basis.
   25         (2) To be certified as a residential appraiser, an
   26  applicant must present satisfactory evidence to the board that
   27  she or he has met the minimum education and experience
   28  requirements prescribed by rule of the board. The board shall
   29  prescribe by rule education and experience requirements that
   30  meet or exceed the following real property appraiser
   31  qualification criteria adopted on December 9, 2011 February 20,
   32  2004, by the Appraisal Qualifications Board of the Appraisal
   33  Foundation:
   34         (a) Has at least 2,500 hours of experience obtained over a
   35  24-month period in real property appraisal as defined by rule.
   36         (b) Has successfully completed at least 200 classroom
   37  hours, inclusive of examination, of approved qualifying
   38  education academic courses in subjects related to real estate
   39  appraisal, which must include a 15-hour National Uniform
   40  Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice course, or its
   41  equivalent, as established by rule of the board, from a
   42  nationally recognized or state-recognized appraisal
   43  organization, career center, accredited community college,
   44  college, or university, state or federal agency or commission,
   45  or proprietary real estate school that holds a permit pursuant
   46  to s. 475.451. All qualifying education courses may be completed
   47  through in-person classroom instruction or distance learning. A
   48  classroom hour is defined as 50 minutes out of each 60-minute
   49  segment. Past courses may be approved by the board and
   50  substituted on an hour-for-hour basis.
   51         (3) To be certified as a general appraiser, an applicant
   52  must present evidence satisfactory to the board that she or he
   53  has met the minimum education and experience requirements
   54  prescribed by rule of the board. The board shall prescribe
   55  education and experience requirements that meet or exceed the
   56  following real property appraiser qualification criteria adopted
   57  on December 9, 2011 February 20, 2004, by the Appraisal
   58  Qualifications Board of the Appraisal Foundation:
   59         (a) Has at least 3,000 hours of experience obtained over a
   60  30-month period in real property appraisal as defined by rule.
   61         (b) Has successfully completed at least 300 classroom
   62  hours, inclusive of examination, of approved qualifying
   63  education academic courses in subjects related to real estate
   64  appraisal, which must include a 15-hour National Uniform
   65  Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice course, or its
   66  equivalent, as established by rule of the board, from a
   67  nationally recognized or state-recognized appraisal
   68  organization, career center, accredited community college,
   69  college, or university, state or federal agency or commission,
   70  or proprietary real estate school that holds a permit pursuant
   71  to s. 475.451. All qualifying education courses may be completed
   72  through in-person classroom instruction or distance learning. A
   73  classroom hour is defined as 50 minutes out of each 60-minute
   74  segment. Past courses may be approved by the board and
   75  substituted on an hour-for-hour basis.
   76         (4) A distance learning course may be approved by the board
   77  as an option to classroom hours for satisfactory completion of
   78  the academic courses required under this section. The schools
   79  authorized by this section have the option of providing
   80  classroom courses, distance learning courses, or both.
   81         (a) A distance learning course must use a delivery method
   82  that is certified or approved by a board-authorized independent
   83  certifying organization.
   84         (b) A distance learning course intended for use as academic
   85  education must include a written, closed-book final examination
   86  proctored by an appropriate individual who represents the public
   87  interest and is free from any conflicts of interest. As used in
   88  this paragraph, the term “written” refers to an exam that might
   89  be written on paper or administered electronically on a computer
   90  workstation or other device. Oral exams are not acceptable.
   91         (5)(4) Each applicant must furnish, under oath, a detailed
   92  statement of the experience for each year of experience she or
   93  he claims. Upon request, the applicant shall furnish to the
   94  board, for its examination, copies of appraisal reports or file
   95  memoranda to support the claim for experience. Any appraisal
   96  report or file memoranda used to support a claim for experience
   97  must be maintained by the applicant for no less than 5 years
   98  after the date of certification.
   99         (6)(5) The board may implement the provisions of this
  100  section by rule.
  101         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.
  102  
  103  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
  104         And the title is amended as follows:
  105         Delete everything before the enacting clause
  106  and insert:
  107                        A bill to be entitled                      
  108         An act relating to real estate appraisers; amending s.
  109         475.617, F.S.; revising terminology applicable to
  110         education requirements for registered trainee
  111         appraisers, certified residential appraisers, and
  112         certified general appraisers; authorizing qualifying
  113         education courses completed by applicants for
  114         registration as a trainee or certification as a
  115         residential appraiser or general appraiser to be
  116         completed through distance learning; revising the
  117         education and experience requirements for certified
  118         residential appraisers and certified general
  119         appraisers according to certain real property
  120         appraiser qualification criteria adopted by the
  121         Appraiser Qualifications Board of the Appraisal
  122         Foundation on a specified date; authorizing the use of
  123         a distance learning course; providing requirements for
  124         a distance learning course and a final examination;
  125         providing an effective date.