Vermont § 3015 - Renewals

§ 3015. Renewals

• (a) Licenses shall be renewed every two years upon payment of the required fee. (b) Two months prior to the expiration of the license, the Director of the Office of Professional
  Regulation shall forward to the holder a form or application of renewal. Upon the
  receipt of the completed form and the renewal fee, the Director shall issue a new
  license. (c) Any application for renewal of a license that has expired shall in addition require
  the payment of a reinstatement fee. A person reinstating shall not be required to
  pay renewal fees for the years during which the license was lapsed. (d) Continuing education units. (1) As a condition of renewal, the Board shall require that licensees establish that they
  have satisfied continuing education requirements established by Board rule and this
  subsection. (2) Continuing education requirements shall include requiring one or more continuing education
  units in the area of systematic oppression and anti-oppressive practice, or in related
  topic areas, consistent with the report recommendations from the Health Equity Advisory
  Commission required pursuant to 2021 Acts and Resolves No. 33, Sec. 5 for improving
  cultural competency, cultural humility, and antiracism in Vermont’s health care system. (3) Synchronous virtual continuing education credits shall be approvable and accepted
  as live in-person training. (4) Upon application, the Board may exempt from continuing education requirements a licensee
  on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces if obtaining continuing education credits
  would be impossible in practice or a significant hardship for the licensee. (5) If the licensee is licensed in one or more other mental health professions under this
  title, continuing education units completed for one mental health profession shall
  count toward the required continuing education units for the other mental health profession
  or professions for which the licensee is licensed under this title. (Added 1975, No. 228 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; amended 1981, No. 241 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 1993, No. 98, § 6; 1999, No. 133 (Adj. Sess.), § 23; 2007, No. 163 (Adj. Sess.), § 31; 2021, No. 117 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. July 1, 2023.)