"An Act authorizing a waiver for active duty military service of continuing education requirements for renewal of occupational licenses. "

This legislation is introduced to eliminate the possibility of a professional licensee losing his or her license because of failure to fulfill statutory requirements for continuing education while serving on active duty.

Many professional license holders are full-time active duty military or members of reserve or auxiliary components of the armed forces. Oftentimes the men and women serving our country no longer have the ability to fulfill the educational requirements to maintain their specific license, registration, permit or certificate.

HB 181 provides a waiver of the educational requirements and allows the license holder to return to Alaska and have an extended period of time to fulfill the continuing education requirements without losing their license for non-compliance.

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