Section 7 - Allowance of Credit Hours(A)Amount of Credit Hours. Sixty minutes of actual instruction or other approved activity shall constitute one credit hour. Thirty minutes of actual instruction or other approved activity shall constitute one-half credit hour.(B)Continuing Legal Education Credit. The Supreme Court Commission on Continuing Legal Education may allow up to three credit hours for each credit hour taught by a full-time judge, part-time judge, retired judge, magistrate, or acting judge at an approved continuing legal education program or activity the first time the program or activity is presented by the judge, magistrate, or acting judge; two credit hours for each credit hour taught as part of a panel presentation in an approved program or activity the first time the program or activity is presented by the judge, magistrate, or acting judge; and one credit hour for each credit hour taught in subsequent presentations of the same program or activity by the judge, magistrate, or acting judge; with a maximum of one-half the required credit hours for teaching during the biennial compliance period.(C)Law School Teaching Credit.(1) As used in this section, "semester hour" means the number of academic credit hours received by a student for successfully completing a specific higher education course.(2) The Commission may allow three credit hours for each semester hour of a course taught by a full-time judge, part-time judge, retired judge, magistrate, or acting judge at a law school accredited by the American Bar Association the first time the course is taught by that full-time judge, part-time judge, retired judge, magistrate, or acting judge and one-half credit hour for each semester hour the course is subsequently taught by that full-time judge, part-time judge, retired judge, magistrate, or acting judge.(3) The Commission may allow one-half credit hour for each semester hour taught by a full-time judge, part-time judge, retired judge, magistrate, or acting judge at a law school accredited by the American Bar Association.(4) Prorated credit may be granted for quarter or trimester hours.(D)Publication of article or book credit. The Commission may allow up to twelve credit hours for the publication of an article or book personally authored by a full-time judge, part-time judge, or retired judge, magistrate, or acting judge, with a maximum of twelve credit hours for publications during a biennial compliance period.(E)Self-Study Credit. The Commission may allow up to twenty credit hours for approved self-study by a full-time judge, part-time judge, retired judge, or magistrate during a biennial compliance period..(F)Law School Course Credit. The Commission may allow three general credit hours for each semester hour of a course taken by a full-time judge, part-time judge, retired judge, magistrate, or acting judge at a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. Prorated credit may be granted for quarter or trimester hours. (G) National Judicial College credit.(G)National Judicial College Credit. The Commission may allow up to one Judicial College credit hour for each hour of instruction taken by a full-time judge, part-time judge, retired judge, magistrate, or acting judge through the National Judicial College, with a maximum of ten credit hours for instruction taken during a biennial compliance period.Amended August 2, 2022, effective 9/1/2022; amended July 12, 2022, effective 1/1/2023.