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What is the State asking you to do?
What is the State asking the persons holding a Florida Cosmetology or Specialty License to do? In a nut shell the state is asking that licensees take continued education. What is continued education? Continued education is training covering specific subject matter. The law designates the subject matter that must be covered. It cannot be promotional or include demonstrations of products intended for sale. It must equal 16 hours and it must be received from a State Approved Provider. That means the state has reviewed the course and determined that the course meets all the criteria necessary to qualify under the law. The state then in turn grants permission for the course to be made available as continued education for license renewal. It must be completed on or before the license renewal date.
455.2178 Continuing education providers. --If the monitoring of compliance with continuing education requirements is privatized pursuant to s. 455.2177:
The law regarding the states' requirement for continued education has been included below. It is a good idea to review this information to be sure you fully understand what is expected of you. To protect your license it is important to keep up with the changes that are occurring in Florida law regarding this industry.
The 2000 Florida Statutes
Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Chapter 455 Business And Professional Regulation: General Provisions
(1)(a) The department shall notify each approved continuing education provider of the name and address of all vendors that monitor compliance of licensees under s. 455.2177. If the department contracts with more than one vendor under s. 455.2177, the notice shall specify the professions to be monitored by each vendor.
(b) Each continuing education provider shall provide to the appropriate vendor such information regarding the continuing education status of licensees as the department determines is necessary for the vendor to carry out its duties under s.
455.2177(2), in a form determined by the department. The information must be submitted to the vendor electronically no later than 5 business days after a licensee's completion of a course. Upon the request of a licensee, the provider must also furnish to a vendor information regarding courses completed by the licensee.
(2) Each continuing education provider shall retain all records relating to a licensee's completion of continuing education courses for at least 4 years after completion of a course.
(3) A continuing education provider may not be approved, and the approval may not be renewed, unless the provider agrees in writing to provide such cooperation with vendors under s. 455.2177 as the department deems necessary or appropriate.
(4) The department may immediately revoke approval of any continuing education provider that fails to comply with its duties under this section.
(5) For the purpose of determining which persons or entities must meet the reporting, recordkeeping, and access provisions of this section, the board of any profession subject to this section, or the department if there is no board, shall, by rule, adopt a definition of the term "continuing education provider" applicable to the profession's continuing education requirements. The intent of the rule shall be to ensure that all records and information necessary to carry out the requirements of this section and s. 455.2177 are maintained and transmitted accordingly and to minimize disputes as to what person or entity is responsible for maintaining and reporting such records and information.
(6) The department has the authority to adopt rules to implement this section.
History.--s. 158, ch. 99-251.