Section 16-92-38 - Minimum hours(a) Licensees who are not therapeutically certified shall obtain thirty-two hours during the biennium in approved programs of continuing education for relicensure. A person who is initially licensed in the first year of the biennium shall be required to submit certification of having earned sixteen continuing education hours for the biennium, and a person who obtains licensure in the second year of the biennium need not obtain any continuing education hours for the first renewal of the license.(b) Licensees who are therapeutically certified shall obtain thirty-six hours of approved continuing education in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of ocular and systemic diseases for relicensure, regardless of initial date of licensure. The one hundred hour course in the treatment and management of ocular disease shall satisfy the thirty-six hour requirement provided that the course was taken within the two years prior to the date the application of license renewal was received by the board, and credits for the course were not used for a previous license renewal.[Eff 1/1/74; am and ren § 16-92-38, 6/21/81; am and comp 10/31/86; comp 5/19/89; am and comp 4/21/97; am and comp 7/23/99; comp 6/3/02; comp 11/1/10] (Auth: HRS § 459-4) (Imp: HRS § 459-7)