2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-3,117 — Continuing competency requirements; limited exemptions.

Section 71-3,117
Continuing competency requirements; limited exemptions.

The following classes of persons shall have a limited exemption from the continuing competency requirements established by the board pursuant to section 71-377:

(1) Any licensee submitting proof that he or she was suffering from a serious or disabling illness or disability that prevented him or her from completing the continuing competency requirements shall be exempt for the biennium if, by the renewal date, he or she is able to practice effectively and to attend continuing competency activities. Any licensee who remains unable to practice effectively at his or her regularly scheduled renewal date shall be placed on inactive status. A physician's statement shall be submitted in support of any request for a continuing competency exemption based on an illness or disability;

(2) Any licensee submitting proof of service in the regular armed forces of the United States during any part of the immediately preceding biennium shall be exempt for that biennium;

(3) Any person receiving an initial license in Nebraska during the second year of the biennium shall be exempt from the continuing competency requirement for that biennium only;

(4) Any licensee submitting proof that he or she has not lived in Nebraska at any time during the six months immediately preceding the date of license renewal and who has not worked in Nebraska at any time during such period shall be exempt for that biennium and shall be placed on inactive status;

(5) An instructor who meets the continuing competency requirements for the instructor's license shall be exempt from meeting the continuing competency requirements for his or her cosmetologist license for that biennium;

(6) An electrology instructor who meets the continuing competency requirements for the electrology instructor's license shall be exempt from meeting the continuing competency requirements for his or her electrologist license for that biennium; and

(7) An esthetics instructor who meets the continuing education requirements for the esthetics instructor's license shall be exempt from meeting the continuing education requirements for his or her esthetician license for that biennium.

Source:

Laws 1986, LB 318, § 78

Laws 1995, LB 83, § 37

Laws 2002, LB 241, § 31

Laws 2002, LB 1021, § 46

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska