Provider Application Process & Renewal

Pursuant to Rule 61G15-22.011, Florida Administrative Code, only Board-approved providers may offer the Florida Laws & Rules course and credit.

To qualify as a Board-approved provider, a provider applicant must:

• Submit an application to FBPE for approval to provide the continuing education course along with the fee (see CE Provider Application at right); or
• Be registered as a continuing education provider with the Registered Continuing Education Program of the American Council of Engineering Companies.
  

For current Board-approved continuing education providers interested in adding a Florida Laws & Rules course to their program, please complete the CE Laws & Rules Provider Application (at right), and submit it to the Board office. If you have any questions about the application, please contact the Board office at (850) 521-0500 ext. 113, or email cedesk@fbpe.org.

CE PROVIDER & COURSE RENEWAL

In order to maintain status as a continuing education provider, CE providers must renew their application and courses each biennium.

Refer to Rule 61G15-22.014, F.A.C., Duration of Provider Status, which states:

“(1) Continuing education providers are only approved for the biennium during which they applied and must reapply for provider status at the beginning of each biennium. The biennium for continuing education providers ends on May 31st of each odd-numbered year.

(2) A provider must reapply for approval ninety (90) days prior to the expiration date of provider status in order to prevent a lapse in provider status.”

CE course approval is also only valid for the biennium during which it was approved, provided no substantial change is made in the course and the approval status of the provider has not expired or been suspended or revoked. Substantial changes made in any course require the provider to obtain a new approval of that course from FBPE. A provider must reapply for course approval 90 days prior to the date of the end of the biennium, which would be the expiration of course approval in order to prevent a lapse in course approval.

Please note that renewal of the CE provider’s status does not renew the individual courses offered. The CE provider must notify the Board that their provider renewal has been completed to ensure that the courses are updated with the renewal date.

REPORTING CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

Beginning with the 2023-2025 biennium, Board-approved providers of Florida laws and rules courses must report the results of Professional Engineers completing the course. All other CE providers are not required to report CE credits for engineers to FBPE but must provide certificates to licensees as required by rule.

Laws and rules course certificates must be reported through the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulations’ online provider reporting portal using their DBPR online services account at MyFloridaLicense.com.

Providers must report all completions of any Florida laws and rules course offered since March 1, 2023, and going forward using the reporting portal. CE completions for the current biennium must be reported by providers by midnight Feb. 28, 2025.

If you don’t already have an account, you must create a provider account at MyFloridaLicense.com. DBPR provides a PDF with instructions on creating and using the provider account.

Once you have your provider account, you can start uploading electronic attendance files using DBPR’s CE reporting portal.

FBPE requests that you forward confirmation emails and your provider information to cedesk@fbpe.org when you have:

• Opened your provider account with DBPR, and
• Begun reporting continuing education results in the portal.

These new requirements result from changes to the rule regarding Professional Engineers and their continuing education. For more information on rules for continuing education providers, please see Rule 61G15-22.012, Florida Administrative Code, Obligations of Continuing Education Providers.

Previously, the Florida Board of Professional Engineers randomly audited PEs to confirm competition of their continuing education requirements. But after two renewal periods during which too many PEs were failing the audit, Florida statutes required that PEs must report their certificates. Because the Florida laws and rules course can only be offered by Board-approved providers, those providers must report completions of their course by Florida PEs.

If you have any questions, please contact cedesk@fbpe.org.