Licensees: Please check your email registered with MiPlus for an important communication from LARA BPL sent on February 5th, 2024 regarding the new Fair Housing continuing education requirement:
“The Bureau of Professional Licensing (BPL) within the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) would like to inform you that Public Act 246 of 2023 amended the Michigan Occupational Code to require that all real estate professionals complete one hour of continuing education in each year of the license cycle concerning compliance with local, State or Federal fair housing law. The law will become effective on February 13, 2024, meaning those renewing their license after that date are required to comply with this new law.
For those renewing within the first year of the effective date of the law, if selected for a Continuing Education Audit, the Department will take into consideration the shortened window for you to comply with the new law. For those renewing more than 1-year after the effective date of the law (after February 13, 2025), if selected for a Continuing Education Audit, the Department will use its discretion but would expect that at least one hour of this new training is completed for each license cycle year since the law went into effect.”
Beginning on 2/13, CE Marketplace individual profiles will now include a credit type of ‘Fair Housing’ to indicate whether a course credit will meet the new Fair Housing requirement. Any Fair Housing course completed prior to 2/13/2023 will precede the effective date of the new law and will not count towards the requirement.
Updated 02/13/24: At least 18 total credit hours every three years. Within these 18 hours, two hours of legal CE and one hours of fair housing CE must be taken in each licensing year. The additional 9 credits to reach the total of 18 prior to renewal may be credits of any type (legal, elective or fair housing) and may be taken at any time during the three-year period.
Please see the information on the amendment to the Michigan Occupational Code effective Feb 13, 2024 on the alert above, regarding the fair housing CE requirement to determine how it will be enforced by LARA during your current licensing cycle.
Please refer to this document from Michigan REALTORS® for guidance.
It is different for everyone and is based upon the date your license was issued.
In example: For a license issued on September 10, a licensing year would be Sept 10-Sept 9.
If you are unsure of the date that your license was issued, please click here.
The bad news – GRAR is unable to see your CE record. The good news – you can! Please visit the CE Marketplace.
Check out GRAR’s Class & Event Schedule or check the CE Marketplace.
Search the CE Marketplace for ‘on-demand’ options under ‘class availability’.
Legal credit does not carry from one licensing year to the next. If you take more than two hours of legal in the same licensing year, the remaining credit will count toward standard credit.
Fair housing credit does not carry from one licensing year to the next. If you take more than one hour of fair housing CE in the same licensing year, the remaining credit will count toward standard credit.
If you are unsure of the date that your license expires, please click here.