Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
Why RAS
GCHS already performs accessibility and aging-in-place evaluations, TAS, ADA, Section 504, and Fair Housing, as one of its three service lines, and pre-rehab work already touches TAS compliance on CDBG and HOME projects. RAS is issued by TDLR and lets a GCHS staff member perform the actual regulated function, plan review or inspection with a report filed to both the building owner and TDLR, on public and commercial buildings. It is a Texas-specific credential, not a national one, and it generally does not cover private residences.
Status
Every lesson is sourced directly from TDLR's own published material: the RAS application, exam, continuing education and renewal pages, 16 Texas Administrative Code Chapter 68, Texas Government Code Chapter 469, the 2012 TAS technical chapters (cited by section number), TDLR's Texas Accessibility Academy slides and RAS bulletins, and TDLR's RAS Procedures for plan review and inspection. Lesson 10's review is honest about the one thing that stays unverified: the exact question count, time limit, and passing score on the PSI exam, which are set out in PSI's Candidate Information Bulletin that TDLR's exam page points to.
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Lesson 10
Assessment