SB 1214
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-sixth Legislature
Second Regular Session
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SB 1214: continuing education; agency license requirements
Sponsor: Senator Petersen, LD 14
Committee on Judiciary
Overview
Requires the Arizona Supreme Court to allow a member of the State Bar of Arizona to earn
continuing legal education credit for attending continuing education to fulfill a license
renewal requirement with a different agency if certain requirements are met.
History
The Arizona Supreme Court (Court) maintains under its direction and control a corporate
organization known as the State Bar of Arizona (Bar), whose purpose is to serve and protect
the public with respect to the provision of legal services and access to justice. By rule, every
person licensed to engage in the practice of law in Arizona must be member of the Bar (Ariz.
Sup. Ct. R. 32). Unless exempted, every active member of the Bar is required to complete a
minimum of 15 hours of continuing legal education (CLE) each educational year, which
begins on July 1 and ends on the following June 30 (Ariz. Sup. Ct. R. 45).
Similarly, members of several other professions that are regulated by Arizona agencies,
boards and commissions—many of which are governed by A.R.S. title 32 (professions and
occupations)—are required to complete continuing education requirements. For example,
certain licensees regulated by the Arizona Department of Real Estate, among many others,
are required to complete specified amounts of continuing education in order to renew their
licenses (A.R.S. § 32-2130 and A.A.C. R4-28-402)
Provisions
1. Requires the Court to provide that, if a member of Bar attends a continuing education
program and earns continued education credit to fulfill a state agency license renewal
requirement, the member will also earn CLE credit if the continuing education program
does all of the following:
a) consists of an organized program of learning;
b) deals with matters directly related to the law;
c) follows an agenda;
d) is accompanied by substantive or practical written materials or exercises. (Sec. 1)
2. Defines state agency license renewal requirement as an amount of continuing education
that a person must obtain in order to satisfy a requirement imposed by law to maintain
or renew a professional license issued by an agency, board, commission or department of
the state of Arizona. (Sec. 1)
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