Texas Administrative Code › Title 22 - EXAMINING BOARDS › Part 24 - TEXAS BOARD OF VETERINARY MEDICAL EXAMINERS › Chapter 573 - RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT › Subchapter G - OTHER PROVISIONS › Section 573.64 - Continuing Education Requirements

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Required Continuing Education Hours.
(1) Licensed Veterinarians. Seventeen (17)
				  hours of acceptable continuing education shall be required annually for renewal
				  of all types of Texas veterinary licenses, except as provided in subsection (b)
				  of this section. Veterinary licensees who successfully complete the Texas State
				  Board Licensing Examination shall receive credit for 17 continuing education
				  hours for their first renewal year following licensure .
(2) Licensed Equine Dental Providers. Six (6)
				  hours of acceptable continuing education shall be required annually for renewal
				  of Texas equine dental provider licenses.
(3) Licensed Veterinary Technicians. Ten (10)
				  hours of acceptable continuing education shall be required annually for renewal
				  of Texas veterinary technician licenses.
(4) A licensee shall earn the required hours
				  of acceptable continuing education during the renewal year immediately
				  preceding the licensee's application for license renewal. Should a licensee
				  earn acceptable continuing education hours during the year in excess of the
				  required hours, the licensee may carry over and apply the excess hours to the
				  requirement for the next renewal year. Licensees may carry over excess hours to
				  the following renewal year only, and may not carry over more hours than the
				  licensee is required to earn in a renewal year.
(5) Hardship extensions may be granted by
				  appeal to the Executive Director of the Board. The executive director shall
				  only consider requests for a hardship extension from licensees who were
				  prevented from completing the required continuing education hours due to
				  circumstances beyond the licensee's control. A hardship extension generally
				  will not be allowed due to financial hardship or lack of time due to a busy
				  professional or personal schedule. Requests for a hardship extension must be
				  received in writing and in the Board offices by no later than the 15th day of
				  the month three (3) months prior to the last day of the licensee's birth month
				  . Should such extension be granted, twice the number of hours of continuing
				  education required for a standard annual license renewal shall be obtained in
				  the two-year period of time that includes the year of insufficiency and the
				  year of extension. Licensees receiving a hardship extension shall maintain
				  records of the continuing education obtained and shall file copies of these
				  records with the Board by attaching the records to the license renewal
				  application submitted following the extension year, or by sending them to the
				  Board separately if the licensee submits his or her renewal application
				  electronically (on-line).
(6) A
				  military service member, as defined in Chapter 55, §
											55.001, of the Texas
				  Occupations Code, has up to two years to complete the required continuing
				  education requirements for each renewal year.
(7) Except as provided in subsection (a)(1)
				  of this section, continuing education hours obtained prior to licensure in
				  Texas may not be applied toward the required number of continuing education
				  hours.