§ 272C.2 — Continuing education — rules

Iowa § 272C.2

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VII: EDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
• Ch. 272C: REGULATION OF LICENSED PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

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1. Each licensing board may require and issue rules for continuing education
requirements as a condition to license renewal.
2. Therulesmaycreatecontinuingeducationrequirementsataminimumlevelprescribed
by each licensing board. These boards may also establish continuing education programs to
assist a licensee in meeting such continuing education requirements. If adopted, 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 reentry.
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.
h. Allow a licensee to apply continuing education credit obtained in excess of the
requirementsforarenewalperiodtothecontinuingeducationrequirementsforthefollowing
renewal period in an amount not to exceed fifty percent of the continuing education
credits required for a renewal period. A licensing board may adopt rules specifying types
of continuing education credits earned in a renewal period that cannot be applied to the
continuing education requirements for the following renewal period.
3. The state board of engineering and land surveyors, the board of architectural
examiners, the board of landscape architectural examiners, and the economic development
authority 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.

Legislative History

[C79, 81, §258A.2]