(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, each person who holds a license or certificate of registration issued under this chapter shall complete during the period that the license or certificate is in effect not less than thirty clock hours of continuing professional education as a condition of receiving a renewed license or certificate. To have a lapsed license or certificate of registration restored, a person shall complete the number of hours of continuing education specified by the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board in rules it shall adopt in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
The professional standards committees of the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing standards and procedures to be followed by the committees in conducting the continuing education approval process.
(B) The board may waive the continuing education requirements established under this section for persons who are unable to fulfill them because of military service, illness, residence abroad, or any other reason the committee considers acceptable.
In the case of a social worker licensed by virtue of receiving, prior to October 10, 1992, a baccalaureate degree in a program closely related to social work, as a condition of the first renewal of the license, the social worker must complete at an accredited educational institution a minimum of five semester hours of social work graduate or undergraduate credit, or their equivalent, that is acceptable to the committee and includes a course in social work theory and a course in social work methods.
HISTORY: 146 v S 223 (Eff 3-18-97); 149 v H 374. Eff 4-7-2003.
Cross-References to Related Sections
Certificate of registration as social work assistant, requirements to maintain, RC § 4757.29.
Expiration and renewal of license or registration; restoration after lapse, RC § 4757.32.
Extension of continuing education reporting period for active duty military service, RC § 5903.12.
Ohio Adminstrative Code
Continuing education. OAC ch. 4757-9.
Comparative Legislation
Continuing education:
CA - Bus & Prof Code § 4996.22
FL - Stat Ann §§ 491.0065, 455.2226
IL - Comp Stat Ann ch 225 §§ 20/6(7), 20/11
IN - Code §§ 25-23.6-2-8, 25-23.6-5-9
KY - Rev Stat Ann § 335.130
PA - CSA tit 63 § 1918