La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § LIV-194

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 12, December 20, 2024

Section LIV-194 - Biennial Requirements [Formerly Section 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

4. Repealed.

C. Repealed.

La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § LIV-194

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospital, Board of Physical Therapy Examiners, LR 15:388 (May 1989), amended LR 17:664 (July 1991), LR 19:208 (February 1993), LR 21:394 (April 1995), LR 21:1243 (November 1995), LR 16:1446 (July 2000), LR 28:1980 (September 2002), LR 34:1907 (September 2008), amended by the Physical Therapy Board, LR 37:3046 (October 2011), Amended by LR 471136 (8/1/2021).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:2405.B (7) and Act 535 of 2009.