Who issues real estate licenses in Tennessee?

The Tennessee Department of State handles business entity filings, notary commissions, and other administrative functions, but it has no statutory authority over real estate licensing, which is specifically assigned to TREC under T.C.A. § 62-13-101.

There is no official Tennessee government body called 'TN State Licensing' — this is a fabricated distractor designed to sound plausible but representing no real licensing authority in Tennessee.

There is no national commission with authority to issue state real estate licenses; real estate licensing is exclusively a state function under the 10th Amendment's reservation of powers to the states, and no federal or national body issues individual state licenses.