A.  Every applicant for license renewal shall have completed in the prior twelve months at least ten hours of continuing education courses that are approved by the board in consultation with the Respiratory Care Advisory Committee.

B.  The board shall develop and maintain appropriate rules to reflect the annual continuing education requirement.  The committee, at the direction of the board, shall further conduct regular audits to verify that applicants have fulfilled the continuing education requirement.  Any applicant found to have submitted insufficient or false information relative to this requirement, within ninety days after being requested to do so, shall submit documentation verifying that he has fulfilled this requirement.  The board shall suspend the license of any respiratory therapist who fails to provide such documentation within such time.

Acts 2007, No. 142, §2.