62-5-601. Continuing education requirement for license renewals. Any licensee who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older or who has held a license continuously for ten (10) years on or before October 1, 2000, shall be exempt from the continuing education requirements in this chapter.
0660-10-.03 Continuing Education requirements. (4) Except as provided in subsection (5), the requirements of this chapter do not apply to new licensees during the first licensing period. (5) A person required to reapply as for initial licensure by T.C.A. § 62-5-316(b), shall as a prerequisite to issuance of a new license, submit with the application satisfactory proof of having completed a minimum of ten (10) hours of continuing education coursework within CONTINUING EDUCATION CHAPTER 0660-10 (Rule 0660-10-.03, continued) ninety (90) days of the date of application. Of the ten (10) hours of continuing education coursework, five (5) hours must be attended in person, which means it shall be completed in the physical presence of the provider of the coursework or through an interactive virtual program that requires participants to confirm their presence during the program.