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Licence Frozen in Good Standing on Active Duty — No Dues, No Fees, No CE

A licensee called to active duty keeps their professional licence in good standing, renewed without dues or fees, without continuing education, and without any other act normally required — and it runs for at least six months after discharge.

Verified August 22, 2026

What this benefit is

A licensee called to active duty keeps their professional licence in good standing, renewed without dues or fees, without continuing education, and without any other act normally required — and it runs for at least six months after discharge.

What it's worth: Renewal dues and fees waived for the whole activation, plus six months after discharge

  • The dollar amount is whatever your board charges to renew, multiplied by the renewal cycles that fall inside the activation — so a long deployment is worth more than a short one.
  • The continuing education relief may be worth more than the fee: catching up on missed CE after a deployment is the thing that usually costs a returning licensee real money.

Who is entitled to it

  • You are the servicemember or veteran.
  • You are in this state.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Two conditions have to be true at the moment of ACTIVATION: you were a member in good standing with the board, and you were duly licensed or certified. A lapsed licence is not revived by this section.
  2. 2Tell the board. The statute says the licence "shall be kept in good standing", but a board that does not know you were activated will process a lapse in the ordinary way.
  3. 3Continuing education is waived on either of two grounds: circumstances associated with military duty prevented the training and you submitted a waiver request to the board, or you performed the licensed occupation as part of your military duties as annotated on your DD 214.
  4. 4The protection continues while you are on active duty and for a period of at least six months after discharge — which is the window to renew normally before it closes.
Form
Notice to the board, with orders
File with
The administrative body that licenses or certifies you
Documents you will need
dd214
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Worth knowingThe section opens "Notwithstanding any other statute to the contrary", so it overrides a board’s own renewal statute rather than sitting beside it. That matters when a board tells you its rules say otherwise.
CorrectionThe CE waiver is not automatic in both of its branches. Where military duty merely prevented the training, the statute requires a waiver request to have been submitted to the board. Only the second branch — performing the occupation as part of military duties, annotated on the DD 214 — needs no request.

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