New Mexico Register / Volume
XXXIV, Issue 14 / July 31, 2023
This
is an amendment to 16.28.2 NMAC, Section 9 effective 7/31/2023.
16.28.2.9 CONTINUING
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:
A. [Community or
educational signed language interpreters are required to comply with the RID
certification maintenance program (CMP) requirements, regardless of their
certifying body.] RID certified interpreters shall submit [a copy of
their current RID membership card or verification letter from the
RID member portal showing current certified membership status] proof of current RID certified member
status documenting compliance with the requirements of the CMP which
requires eight RID-approved continuing education units (CEUs) 80 contact hours per
four-year CMP cycle. Should RID change
its number of CEUs required an interpreter must comply with the new requirement
in order to maintain licensure in New Mexico. BEI certified interpreters [and
educational] shall submit BEI transcripts showing four CEUs (40 hours)
of continuing education at each biennial renewal. Educational signed language [interpreter]
interpreters meeting the criteria in Subsection D of 16.28.3.11 NMAC but
not holding the ED:K-12 credential must submit associate continuing education
tracking (ACET) transcripts showing four [CEU’s] CEUs (40 hours)
of continuing education at each biennial renewal.
B. Provisional license: two CEUs (20 hours) of continuing education annually documented on the applicant’s associate continuing education tracking (ACET) transcript from RID. Interpreting students should be aware that they need to become associate members of RID before the end of March in their year of graduation for CEU’s earned prior to July 1st to be tracked on their ACET transcripts.
C. Provisional licensees who are within their first year may provide certificates of completion to the board office if the approved CEUs are not on ACET transcripts.
[16.28.2.9 NMAC - N, 07/21/2009; A, 08/18/2011; A, 01/15/2014; A, 12/16/2015;
A, 6/18/2017; A, 3/27/2021; A, 02/26/2022, A, 7/31/2023]