2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 37:2714 — Continuing education and license, certificate, provisional certificate, and registration renewal

§2714.  Continuing education and license, certificate, provisional certificate, and registration renewal

A.(1)  The board shall have authority to establish and promulgate continuing education requirements which are to be fulfilled prior to the renewal of any license, certificate, provisional certificate, or registration issued under this Chapter.

(2)  Twenty clock hours of continuing education in programs approved by the board shall be obtained prior to each renewal date, including three hours of ethics every two years.  In addition, for renewal of a licensed clinical social work license, no less than ten clock hours of the continuing education requirement shall be clinical content including diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.  Failure to fulfill these requirements shall cause the license, certificate, provisional certificate, or registration  to lapse, and any application for renewal will be declined until the continuing education requirements have been met.

(3)  Documentation in a form acceptable to the board, demonstrating compliance with the continuing education requirements, shall accompany the application for the renewal of the license, certificate, provisional certificate, or registration.

B.  In addition to the continuing education requirements set out in Subsection A of this Section, each license, certificate, provisional certificate, or registration issued under the provisions of this Chapter shall be renewed annually except as otherwise provided.  On or before July first of each year, the board shall mail an application for renewal of a license, certificate, provisional certificate, or registration to each person to whom a license, certificate, provisional certificate, or registration was issued or renewed during the current year, which application shall be mailed to the most recent address of said person as it appears on the records of the board.  Such person shall complete the renewal application and return it to the board accompanied by such renewal fee as is required by the board before August thirty-first of the year in which said application was received.  Upon receipt of any application and fee, the board shall verify the accuracy of such application and issue to the applicant a notice of renewal of the license, certificate, provisional certificate, or registration for the current year, beginning September first and expiring August thirty-first.

C.  If any person fails to renew his or her license, certificate, provisional certificate, or registration by August thirty-first, such license, certificate, provisional certificate, or registration shall lapse.  Renewal of a license, certificate, provisional certificate, or registration which has lapsed for three months or less may be effected upon submission to the board of a renewal application accompanied by such renewal fee as is required by the board.  Renewal of a license which has lapsed for a period in excess of three months but less than six months may be effected upon submission to the board of a renewal application accompanied by a fee which shall be twice the amount of the normal renewal fee specified by the board.  If a license, certificate, provisional certificate, or registration is allowed to lapse for six months or longer, the applicant for the license, certificate, provisional certificate, or registration shall be considered a new applicant subject to appropriate provisions of this Chapter.

Acts 1990, No. 785, §1; Acts 1999, No. 1309, §7, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.