Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation
 
Board
Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers, and Landscape Architects
 
chapter
Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers, and Landscape Architects Regulations [18 VAC 10 ‑ 20]
Action Develop regulations for a mandatory continuing education requirement for architect, professional engineer, and land surveyor licenses.
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 5/2/2008
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5/2/08  9:31 pm
Commenter: Carey Johnston

Continuing Education Requirements Need Clarity and Improvements Before Adoption
 

The proposed continuing education requirements for licensed professional engineers is fatally flawed. Not enough clarity or guidance is provided on what will count as continuing educational activities. Additionally, if VPOR is to adopt some continuing education requirement program they will need to provide license holders with an on-line tool for submitting their credits that feeds into a VPOR database. The standard should be on VPOR to identify any problems with submitted credits at the time the credits are submitted, not at some random audit. As the VPOR program is currently constructed, the license holder is under some vague standard and may find themselves on the wrong end of an audit due to this lack of clarity. VPOR should provide a listing of credits that will automatically be granted credit and should work with these educational programs to have credits automatically posted to a VPOR database without the need for a license holder to submit data. VPOR should go back to the drawing board and consult with license holders before taking any further steps. As it stands, the current proposal lacks clarity, efficiency, and certainty for license holders.

CommentID: 1478