The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 26 V.S.A. § 3208)
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§ 3208. Renewals
(a) Licenses shall be renewed every two years on a schedule determined by the Office upon
payment of the required fee.
(b) An application for reinstatement of a license that has expired shall be accompanied
by the renewal fee in addition to other fees set forth in 3 V.S.A. chapter 5. A person shall not be required to pay renewal fees for the years during which the
license was lapsed.
(c) [Repealed.]
(d) As a condition of renewal, a licensee shall complete continuing education, approved
by the Director by rule, during the preceding two-year period. For purposes of this
subsection, the Director may require, by rule, not more than 20 hours of approved
continuing social work education as a condition of renewal. Synchronous virtual continuing
education credits shall be approvable and accepted as live in-person training. Continuing
education requirements shall include requiring one or more continuing education units
in the area of systematic oppression and anti-oppressive practice, or in related topic
areas, consistent with the report recommendations from the Health Equity Advisory
Commission required pursuant to 2021 Acts and Resolves No. 33, Sec. 5 for improving
cultural competency, cultural humility, and antiracism in Vermont’s health care system.
If the licensee is licensed in one or more other mental health professions under this
title, continuing education units completed for one mental health profession shall
count toward the required continuing education units for the other mental health profession
or professions for which the licensee is licensed under this title.
(e) The Director may prescribe, by rule, reinstatement standards for persons wishing to
resume practice after five years since holding an active license. (Added 1985, No. 253 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1989, No. 250 (Adj. Sess.), § 4(d); 1993, No. 98, § 28; 1999, No. 52, § 28; 2015, No. 38, § 31, eff. July 1, 2017; 2021, No. 117 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. July 1, 2023.)