(1) A license which has become voluntarily
inactive may be renewed pursuant to s. 475.182 upon application
to the department. The commission shall prescribe by rule continuing
education requirements, not to exceed 12 classroom hours for each
year the license was inactive, as a condition of renewing a voluntarily
inactive license. The commission shall substitute for such continuing
education requirements, on a classroom-hour-for-classroom-hour basis,
any satisfactorily completed education course approved in the manner
specified in s. 475.182(1). A person whose license is voluntarily
inactive and who renews the license may elect to continue her or
his voluntarily inactive status.
(2)(a) A licensee may reactivate a license that has been involuntarily
inactive for 12 months or less by satisfactorily completing at
least 14 hours of a commission-prescribed continuing education
course. Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 455.271, a licensee
may reactivate a license that has been involuntarily inactive
for more than 12 months but fewer than 24 months by satisfactorily
completing 28 hours of a commission-prescribed education course.
(b) Any license that has been involuntarily
inactive for more than 2 years shall automatically expire.
Once a license expires, it becomes null and void without any further
action by the commission or department. Ninety days prior to expiration
of the license, the department shall give notice to the licensee.
The commission shall prescribe by rule a fee not to exceed $100
for the late renewal of an involuntarily inactive license. The
department shall collect the current renewal fee for each renewal
period in which the license was involuntarily inactive in addition
to any applicable late renewal fee.
(3) The commission shall adopt rules relating to voluntarily
inactive and involuntarily inactive licenses, and for the renewal
of such licenses.
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