Exempt from Continuing Education Requirement

SB 382: Continuing Education Requirements

GENERAL BILL by Rules; Governmental Oversight &  Accountability; Regulated Industries; Hooper

Continuing Education Requirements to require, rather than authorize, the board, or the Department of Business and Professional Regulation when there is no board, to allow by rule that distance learning may be used to satisfy continuing education requirements; revising the requirements that such continuing education must satisfy; requiring a board, or the department when there is no board, to exempt certain individuals from completing their continuing education requirements, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2024
Last Action: 5/17/2024 - Chapter No. 2024-189
 

By Milena Macias, Esq.
CCFJ Director for Legislative Affairs

Published July 1, 2024

Last Friday afternoon, Mr. V., a client and friend, forwarded to me an email he received from DBPR.   Mr. V. has been licensed as a Community Association Manager in Florida for over 10 years and is a Navy veteran who plays it “by the book.”  He was dumbfounded at the contents of the email.

The DBPR email exempts a Community Association Manager  (“CAM”) from continuing education requirements so long they are licensed for over 10  years, and no disciplinary action has been filed against them.

That is concerning.      

A CAM should not be exempt from continuing education  --- especially since new laws relating to  mandatory community associations become effective on  July 1, 2024.   The text of the email is:

From: DBPR <[email protected]>
Date: June 28, 2024

To:

Subject: Exempt from Continuing Education Requirements
Reply-To: [email protected]