SF 2813

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 07/15/2025 10:40 a.m.

A bill for an act
relating to real estate appraisers; modifying out-of-state continuing education credit
requirements; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 82B.19, subdivision 5.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 82B.19, subdivision 5, is amended to read:

Subd. 5.

Out-of-state continuing education credit.

(a) For purposes of this subdivision,
the following terms have the meanings given:

(1) "asynchronous educational offering" has the meaning given in the most recent version
of the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria, as established by the Appraiser
Qualifications Board; and

(2) "synchronous educational offering" has the meaning given in the most recent version
of the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria, as established by the Appraiser
Qualifications Board, and includes an educational process based on live or real-time
instruction where there is no geographic separation of instructor and student.

(b) Notwithstanding section 45.30, subdivisions 1 and 6, a real estate appraiser new text begin or course
provider new text end may submit, in a form prescribed by the commissioner, an application for continuing
education credit for a synchronous educational offering that has not been submitted for prior
approval in Minnesota. The commissioner must grant a real estate appraiser continuing
education credit if:

(1) the application is submitted on or before August 1 of the year in which the real estate
appraiser license is due for renewal;

(2) the synchronous educational offering has been approved for continuing education
credit by the regulator of real estate appraisers in at least one other state or United States
territory; and

(3) an application is submitted by the real estate appraiser new text begin or course provider new text end to the
commissioner within deleted text begin 30 deleted text end new text begin 60 new text end days of successful completion of the synchronous educational
offering.

(c) The application must include a certificate of successful completion from the
synchronous educational offering provider. The commissioner must grant a real estate
appraiser the same number of continuing education credits for the successful completion
of the synchronous educational offering as was approved for the offering by the out-of-state
real estate appraiser regulatory authority. The commissioner must grant a real estate appraiser
continuing education credit within 60 days of the submission of the completed application
for out-of-state continuing education credit.

(d) The commissioner may charge a fee to a real estate appraiser, in an amount to be
determined by the commissioner, to submit an application under this subdivision.

(e) This subdivision does not apply to asynchronous educational offerings.