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Relating to continuing education requirements for persons holding certain professional and occupational licenses
Topics:State government
Same legislation: SF 354
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 26, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2021
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 11, 2021
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 354
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 354 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 354 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to continuing education requirements for persons holding professional licenses pursuant to Code chapter 272C (regulation of certain licensed professions and occupations). The bill authorizes a licensing board to extend the deadline to satisfy continuing education requirements by up to days if a board finds that a licensee is experiencing an unforeseen financial or medical hardship and the licensee submits a request to a licensing board to extend the deadline due to the financial or medical hardship accompanied by evidence that the licensee or a member of the licensee’s family is experiencing a financial or medical hardship.
Read the full explanation
A request for a deadline extension must be submitted no later than days before the date the continuing education requirement must be completed and must include proof of enrollment in a program that will satisfy the continuing education requirement prior to the expiration of the extension. The bill defines an unforeseen medical or financial hardship the same as an unforeseeable emergency in the Code of Federal Regulations. An unforeseeable emergency is defined as a severe financial hardship resulting from illness, accident, loss of property due to casualty, or other similar extraordinary circumstance beyond the licensee’s control. The bill prohibits licensing boards from adopting rules to interpret or implement the bill.
Changed since by amendment S-3024; see Amendments.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 28, 2021. On February 4, 2021 it recommended amendment and passage.
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