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When a state board changes a CE requirement, a mandatory topic, a fee, or a deadline pattern, it lands here within a few days of the board publishing it. Authenticated users with a license in that state also get an email the same day.
SB 25 (89th Legislature, 2025) added Section 301.309 to the Occupations Code, requiring every Texas nurse to complete continuing education in nutrition and metabolic health as part of the CE they already owe. It applies only to a renewal application filed on or after January 1, 2027; anything filed before that date is governed by the law in effect when you filed. The statute does NOT set the hours. It directs the Texas Board of Nursing to prescribe the number of hours and the content by rule, based on guidelines from the Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee, and the Board must adopt those rules no later than December 31, 2026. So the requirement is certain and the size of it is not yet published. Nothing to do today if you renew before 2027; we will update this entry with the hour count once the Board adopts its rules.
Effective January 1, 2027 · Source
Act 463 of the 2025 Regular Session (SB 14) enacted R.S. 37:920(G), requiring APRNs practicing family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, or gynecology to complete at least one hour of CE on nutrition and metabolic health every four years. Two things most coverage gets wrong. It is every FOUR years, not every renewal cycle, and the Act states the hour is "included in, and not in addition to" the CE the board already required, so your total does not go up. The APRN list is also far narrower than the physician list in the same Act, which names 18 specialties: CRNAs and PMHNPs are not included. The board is directed to adopt rules on content, so check LSBN before assuming any given course counts.
Effective January 1, 2026 · Source
CS/SB 340 (2026) adds s. 464.008(1)(e), F.S., requiring graduates of professional and practical nursing programs to complete a two-hour human trafficking course to be eligible to sit for the NCLEX. It applies to candidates who apply to take the NCLEX on or after July 1, 2027; the bill itself took effect July 1, 2026, so programs have a year to build it in. This is a pre-licensure requirement and does not replace the two-hour human trafficking CE that s. 464.013, F.S. already requires at every renewal, so a new Florida nurse now does this course once before the exam and again each cycle.
Effective July 1, 2027 · Source
DC Health is transitioning every professional license to a birth-month renewal cycle: credentials issued or renewed on or after June 16, 2024 expire on the last day of the holder's birth month (odd birth year renews in odd years, even in even). During this one-time transition, all DC boards accept 50% of the CE requirement for licensees whose term runs shorter than two years, but the 2-hour LGBTQ cultural competency and public-health priority requirements are still due in full, and fees are not prorated. The old fixed June 30 deadlines phase out as licenses roll into the new cycle, so check your own expiration date in the DC Health portal rather than assuming June 30.
Effective June 16, 2024 · Source
The 2024 MOBILE Act (ch. 2024-274) required nurses applying to Florida by endorsement to have actively practiced 3 of the preceding 4 years; HB 1299 (ch. 2025-114) reduced that to 2 of the preceding 4 years effective July 1, 2025. This applies only to new out-of-state endorsement applications, not renewals or existing Florida licensees, and nurses holding an eNLC multistate license are statutorily exempt (s. 464.009(2)). If you don't meet the practice requirement, the Board's stated fallback is applying by Examination with an NCSBN transfer of your existing passing NCLEX score, not an NCLEX retake. No 2026 legislation changed this for nurses.
Effective July 1, 2025 · Source
For the June 30, 2026 renewal cycle, DC Health issued renewals late due to volume and required reviews (criminal background checks, with some applications also held for CE compliance or disciplinary history). Nurses who applied before June 30 held the status Renewal Pending/Authorized to Work and could keep working while pending; approved licenses show as renewed effective July 1, 2026. Applications submitted after the deadline sat at Expired, renewal eligible, and no one may work beyond September 1, 2026 without an active license. This was a processing backlog, not a new policy of inspecting every nurse's CE.
Effective June 30, 2026 · Source
The NP Modernization Act provision that let NPs with more than 3,600 practice hours work without a written collaborative agreement sunset on July 1, 2026. The extension bills (S2360 / A1220) were not enacted (S2360 remained in the Senate Higher Education Committee), so experienced New York NPs again need a written practice agreement and collaborative relationship with a physician. Confirm current requirements with NYSED.
Effective July 1, 2026 · Source
SB 2996 was signed and took effect immediately on March 30, 2026 (the enacted text reads "this act shall take effect immediately" - not the fourth-month delay in earlier drafts). It eliminated the joint-protocol requirement for APNs with more than 5,000 hours of licensed, active advanced practice in qualifying population foci who provide primary or behavioral health care. General obstetrics and elective aesthetic or cosmetic services are excluded, APNs below the 5,000-hour threshold still require a joint protocol, and holders of the prior Executive Order 13 waiver who are nearing the threshold have transition provisions.
Effective March 30, 2026 · Source
2025 Act 17 lets APRNs with 3,840 RN practice hours plus 3,840 APRN practice hours (each over at least 24 months) practice independently, ends the collaborative-relationship requirement for them, and makes malpractice coverage mandatory. Invasive pain-management techniques keep a collaboration requirement with a pain-management physician. Board rulemaking is in progress.
Effective September 1, 2026 · Source
Since November 1, 2025, APRN-CNPs, CNSs, and CNMs with 6,240 hours of physician-supervised prescriptive practice can apply to prescribe without a supervising physician. The application costs $85, requires malpractice coverage of at least $1 million per occurrence, and the authority renews with the APRN license.
Effective November 1, 2025 · Source
Senate Bill 912 (89th Legislature; Occupations Code Chapter 112) required the Texas Board of Nursing to build its own continuing-education tracking system and to verify CE compliance before it renews a license. The Board has now published operating instructions: beginning September 1, 2026, nurses renewing or reactivating a Texas license must document their CE through the CE Module in the Texas Nurse Portal BEFORE submitting the renewal application, uploading documentation for each activity as PDF, PNG, JPG or JPEG. That is a change in kind rather than degree, because Texas previously renewed on attestation with proof required only if you were randomly audited. Two things that are still true: this is the Board's own free system, NOT a national or paid third-party registry, and the CE requirements themselves (20 contact hours per 2-year cycle) did not change. Gather every certificate now rather than at renewal.
Effective September 1, 2026 · Source
Connecticut joined the Nurse Licensure Compact effective October 1, 2025. Eligible Connecticut nurses can now hold a multistate license to practice across all compact states. Endorsement and primary-state-of-residence (PSOR) change processes are still transitional, so allow extra processing time.
Effective October 1, 2025 · Source
Under Florida HB 975, the background-screening provisions for licensed health care practitioners took effect July 1, 2025. Nurses must complete a Level 2 background check (fingerprints to FDLE and the FBI), new applicants up front, and existing licensees at their next renewal, with re-screening tied to renewal. This is separate from CE; don't bundle the two.
Effective July 1, 2025 · Source
Pennsylvania, which enacted NLC legislation in 2021, implemented the compact effective July 7, 2025, and conversions are fully operational: existing PA RNs and LPNs whose primary state of residence is Pennsylvania can convert to a multistate license through PALS for a $105 fee plus state and FBI fingerprint background checks. Converting does not change your expiration date or renewal fee, and nurses who never practice outside PA can simply keep their single-state license with no action needed. Note the strict compact eligibility rules: an ARD disposition for a felony counts as a disqualifying conviction even though PA law normally treats ARD as avoiding a conviction record.
Effective July 7, 2025 · Source
Effective March 2025, the mandatory human trafficking prevention course Texas RNs and LVNs complete each renewal must come from a provider approved by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). A generic trafficking course no longer satisfies the requirement, confirm the provider is on the HHSC-approved list.
Effective March 1, 2025 · Source
New York Social Services Law § 413 was amended to require an updated curriculum for the mandatory Child Abuse Identification & Reporting CE. NYSED rescinded approval for courses that didn't update. Every New York-licensed RN and NP must complete a course built on the new framework by November 17, 2026. LPNs are not on NYSED's covered-professions list for this training. Completions from before April 2025 require the full 2-hour retake; completions on or after April 2025 may qualify for a short NYSED-approved addendum instead.
Effective November 17, 2026 · Source
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