From the Executive Director: Changes to CE Certificates
BY ZANA RAYBON, FBPE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & FEMC PRESIDENT
The Florida Board of Professional Engineers regularly reviews and updates rules regulating engineering. When the rules are updated, we post a list of those changes in the news section of our website.
I’d like to call your attention to one recent update that affects continuing education certificates.
As of May 26, 2025, changes to Rule 61G15-22.012(1)(c), Florida Administrative Code, require CE providers to include specific information on every certificate of attendance they issue.
Each certificate you receive must include: participant/licensee name; participant/licensee PE number; course number, if applicable; course topic; presenter; date of class; number of continuing education hours awarded; and a brief description of the course.
In addition, CE providers now must issue a separate certificate for each course you attend.
You’re responsible for checking that every certificate includes these details. If something is missing, contact the provider and request a corrected version.
So, make sure your CE provider has your correct name and Florida PE number on file before issuing certificates. This will save you time later and help keep your records in order.
And remember, you must keep documentation — certificates, receipts, vouchers, or similar records — for four years as part of your required recordkeeping.
Florida PEs must complete 18 hours of continuing education during the renewal period running from March 1, 2025, to Feb. 28, 2027.
As you did during the last renewal period, you must report those 18 hours using the NCEES CPC Tracking system. I would recommend that you start uploading your CE documentation now rather than waiting until the last minute.
Those hours must be reported using the NCEES CPC Tracking system.
Also, there has been some confusion over the required Florida Laws and Rules course. Be careful not to confuse this with an ethics course or the Advanced Building Code course. These do not count toward the laws and rules requirement.
