Senate File 354 - Reprinted
SENATE FILE 354
BY COMMITTEE ON STATE
GOVERNMENT
(SUCCESSOR TO SF 163)
(As Amended and Passed by the Senate February 17, 2021)
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to continuing education requirements for
2 persons holding certain professional and occupational
3 licenses.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 272C.2D Continuing education
2 requirements —— extensions.
3 1. Each licensing board may extend the deadline for
4 completing continuing education requirements pursuant to
5 section 272C.2 by up to ninety days if a licensing board finds
6 that a licensee is experiencing an unforeseen financial or
7 medical hardship and the licensee submits all of the following:
8 a. A request that a deadline be extended due to an
9 unforeseen financial or medical hardship experienced by the
10 licensee or a member of the licensee’s family, including an
11 explanation and evidence of the hardship.
12 b. Proof of enrollment in a program that will satisfy the
13 licensee’s continuing education requirements prior to the
14 expiration of the extension.
15 2. A request for an extension of a continuing education
16 requirement deadline shall be submitted to a licensing board no
17 later than sixty days before the date the continuing education
18 requirement must be completed.
19 3. For the purposes of this section, “unforeseen financial
20 or medical hardship” means an unforeseeable emergency as defined
21 in 26 C.F.R. §1.457-6(c)(2)(i).
22 4. This section does not prohibit a licensing board from
23 granting a waiver pursuant to section 17A.9A.
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