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