With a renewal window of roughly 17 weeks, half of Florida’s Professional Engineers put off renewing their licenses until the last three weeks, while one-quarter delayed it until the final week.
Once again, the almost 12,000 Professional Engineers who waited until the end of February to renew their licenses put a strain on the Board’s 12 full-time staff members. As a result, many calls and emails went unanswered as staff assisted other late-renewing PEs.
The surge of late renewals strained the licensing system, which ran slower than usual, causing payment delays and time-outs.
Delaying your renewal until February might not seem significant, but it puts your livelihood at risk since you cannot practice engineering (i.e., signing and sealing engineering documents) in Florida if your license has expired.
As it was, nearly 1,000 PEs could not renew their licenses before the Feb. 28, 2025, deadline because they failed to answer the three attestation questions during the renewal process, their continuing education provider had not reported their Florida Laws and Rules course, or they ran into payment issues or other problems. Another 1,000 PEs had other problems that prevented their renewal.
Charting 2024-2025 Renewals
By the end of the first nine weeks (and roughly the halfway point of the renewal window), only one-quarter of Florida PEs had renewed their licenses, about 2,100 fewer than during the same period in the 2022-2023 window. Renewals continued to lag the previous cycle until the last two weeks of the renewal period.
Florida PEs were burdened with reporting all 18 hours of their continuing education during this renewal period because too many PEs failed the continuing education audit during the past two renewal cycles. The NCEES CPC Tracking system added extra complexity to the process during this period.
At the same time, while there were only minor changes in the actual renewal process that PEs went through at myfloridalicense.com, many PEs seemed to struggle more with completing renewal during this period.
This may be one of the reasons why renewals lagged the last cycle until the final three weeks.
The requirement to use the CPC Tracking system will continue, so PEs should begin taking their continuing education courses early and start logging them in the CPC system before the next renewal period. (Only CE courses taken after March 1, 2025, will count toward the next renewal.)
The next renewal window opens in early November 2026. With nearly 50,000 PEs expected to renew that period, FBPE encourages you to renew early to prevent delays that keep your license from renewing in time.