2009 Iowa Code
Title 7 - Education and Cultural Affairs
Subtitle 5 - Educational Development and Professional Regulation
CHAPTER 272C - REGULATION OF LICENSED PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
272C.2 - CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIRED.

        272C.2  CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIRED.
         1.  Each licensing board shall require and issue rules for
      continuing education requirements as a condition to license renewal.

         2.  The rules shall create continuing education requirements at a
      minimum level prescribed by each licensing board.  These boards may
      also establish continuing education programs to assist a licensee in
      meeting such continuing education requirements.  Such rules shall
      also:
         a.  Give due attention to the effect of continuing education
      requirements on interstate and international practice.
         b.  Place the responsibility for arrangement of financing of
      continuing education on the licensee, while allowing the board to
      receive any other available funds or resources that aid in supporting
      a continuing education program.
         c.  Attempt to express continuing education requirements in
      terms of uniform and widely recognized measurement units.
         d.  Establish guidelines, including guidelines in regard to
      the monitoring of licensee participation, for the approval of
      continuing education programs that qualify under the continuing
      education requirements prescribed.
         e.  Not be implemented for the purpose of limiting the size of
      the profession or occupation.
         f.  Define the status of active and inactive licensure and
      establish appropriate guidelines for inactive licensee re-entry.
         g.  Be promulgated solely for the purpose of assuring a
      continued maintenance of skills and knowledge by a professional or
      occupational licensee directly related and commensurate with the
      current level of competency of the licensee's profession or
      occupation.
         3.  The state board of engineering and land surveyors, the board
      of architectural examiners, the board of landscape architectural
      examiners, and the office of energy independence shall cooperate with
      each other and with persons who typically offer continuing education
      courses for design professionals to make available energy efficiency
      related continuing education courses, and to encourage
      interdisciplinary cooperation and education concerning available
      energy efficiency strategies for employment in the state's
      construction industry.
         4.  A person licensed to practice an occupation or profession in
      this state shall be deemed to have complied with the continuing
      education requirements of this state during periods that the person
      serves honorably on active duty in the military services, or for
      periods that the person is a resident of another state or district
      having a continuing education requirement for the occupation or
      profession and meets all requirements of that state or district for
      practice therein, or for periods that the person is a government
      employee working in the person's licensed specialty and assigned to
      duty outside of the United States, or for other periods of active
      practice and absence from the state approved by the appropriate
      licensing board.
         5.  A person licensed to sell real estate in this state shall be
      deemed to have complied with the continuing education requirements of
      this state during periods that the person serves honorably on active
      duty in the military services, or for periods that the person is a
      resident of another state or district having a continuing education
      requirement for the occupation or profession and meets all
      requirements of that state or district for practice therein, if the
      state or district accords the same privilege to Iowa residents, or
      for periods that the person is a government employee working in the
      person's licensed specialty and assigned to duty outside of the
      United States, or for other periods of active practice and absence
      from the state approved by the appropriate licensing board.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C79, 81, § 258A.2] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         89 Acts, ch 292, § 5; 90 Acts, ch 1252, § 16
         C93, § 272C.2
         2007 Acts, ch 10, §172; 2009 Acts, ch 108, §13, 41
         Referred to in § 105.20, 153.36, 155A.6A, 155A.6B, 469.3, 543D.16