Alabama Administrative Code › Title 465 - HOME BUILDERS LICENSURE BOARD › Chapter 465-X-8 - CONTINUING EDUCATION › Section 465-X-8-.03 - Continuing Education Requirements For Licensees And Designated Qualifying Representatives

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) Beginning with the 2022 licensure year,
			 all active individual licensees and/or the designated qualifying representative
			 for an active corporation, limited liability company, or partnership licensee
			 shall obtain six (6) credit hours of continuing education taught by a Board
			 approved provider or instructor each year in order to maintain an active
			 license.
(2) A licensee and/or the
			 designated qualifying representative for an active corporation, limited
			 liability company, or partnership licensee may carry over up to six (6) hours
			 of continuing education hours from one licensure period to the following
			 licensure period.
(3) Licensees
			 and/or the designated qualifying representative for an active corporation,
			 limited liability company, or partnership licensee are required to complete at
			 least two (2) credit hours each year of Alabama specific courses approved by
			 the Board.
(4) The Board may act as
			 a provider and use qualified Board staff as instructors to provide specific and
			 required classes relative to the Home Builders Licensure Board law and
			 administrative regulations or other courses as needed.
(5) Licensees/DQRs may complete the remaining
			 credit hours each year from approved elective courses.
(6) Credit hours taken to meet continuing
			 education requirements for similar professions and taught by Board approved
			 instructors may be used to meet the Board's continuing education requirements.
			 Licensees seeking credit for courses taken to meet continuing education
			 requirements for similar professions not taught by a Board approved instructor
			 may follow instructions set forth in Ala. Admin. Code r. 465-X-8-.03(7) below.
(7) Licensees seeking credit
			 for a non-traditional continuing education course must submit the written
			 request and any required documentation of the course completed to the Board
			 with the required fee for review and approval within the current license year
			 and prior to the renewal of the license for the following year.
(8) Board approved continuing education
			 instructors who are also individual licensees and/or the designated qualifying
			 representative for a corporate, limited liability company, or partnership
			 licensee may use their course instruction to satisfy the continuing education
			 requirement. Instructors must provide the Board with evidence of what Board
			 approved courses he or she taught, when course(s) were taught, and how many
			 credit hours were taught. Instructors will receive credit for an individual
			 course one time only.
(9) Remedial
			 education courses ordered as a part of disciplinary action by the Board shall
			 not count toward the six (6) hours of continuing education.
Authors:
J. Seth Gowan, Lauren Razick, Darlene
				  Burt
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
				  1975
, §§
										34-14A-7,
				  34-14A-11.