LAC 46:LIV.194. Biennial Requirements [Formerly §169]

A. Unless exempted under §198, licensees shall successfully complete, document and report to the board at least 30 hours of board–approved continuing education courses or activities in the biennial renewal period. No carryover of continuing education hours from one renewal period to another shall be allowed. Continuing education will be granted in the reporting period in which the academic coursework, clinical instruction, tool, residency, or fellowship is completed. B. The types of approved courses or activities and requirement for each are: 1. jurisprudence―a minimum of two contact hours. Passage of the jurisprudence examination, which may be taken online, or attendance at a traditional board-sponsored Jurisprudence course, either of which fulfills the two-hour Jurisprudence requirement; 2. ethics or professionalism ―a minimum of two contact hours; 3. clinical and/or administrative―a minimum of 26 contact hours of continuing education, or activities described in §195.