Bill would require background checks to renew real estate licenses

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4. I firmly believe that once someone has served their sentence that they should be able to return to

work and given the broadest latitude possible to find suitable employment. However, some reasonable limits on employment are acceptable--I wouldn't want someone that stole thousands of dollars to serve as a bank teller, a child molester to teach school, etc.

The article says that they plan on developing a list of crimes that would prevent someone from obtaining a real estate license and they might also place time limits as a precautionary move. Should someone that got busted for selling a bag of weed twenty years ago be prevented from getting a real estate license? I would say no, but I would not put someone in a situation where they might be tempted to repeat a crime that they committed previously.