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Relating to continuing education requirements for persons holding certain professional and occupational licenses
Sponsored by the Senate State Government Committee
Topics:State government
Same legislation: SF 163
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 26, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2021
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 11, 2021
- Done: Passes the SenateFebruary 17, 202148–0
- Done: House committeeMarch 24, 2021
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. 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 financial or medical 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. The bill does not prohibit a board from granting a waiver pursuant to the Iowa administrative procedure Act.
Changed since by amendment S-3024; see Amendments.
House subcommittee
Named March 10, 2021. Meeting: Tuesday, March 16 · 12:00 PM · RM 103, Sup. Ct. Chamber.
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