The Board of Directors approved a series of Core Standards recommendations that impact the appeal hearing process including:

• Enforcing a firm December 31 deadline by when local and commercial associations must complete their Core Standards certification forms
• Formalizing the process by which state associations communicate issues of a local association’s non-compliance to NAR
• Allowing state associations to meet with and provide written documentation to the hearing panel before any appeal
• Prohibiting Core Standards hearing panels from granting extensions to non-compliant associations.
• Requiring a warning letter by February 1 to chief staff and officers of non-compliant associations
• Allowing hearing panels to set a one-year probationary period on non-compliant associations and to impose sanctions with options that are less severe than charter revocation for first-time offenders.
• An NAR-developed training programs to educate local, commercial, and state association volunteer leaders on the Core Standards.