of the issuance of an Order regarding the Petition for Waiver or Variance, which was filed on February 3, 2015, by Raffaela Maria Amanda Villella. The Notice of Petition for Waiver or Variance was published in Volume 41, Number 24, of the February 5,...

 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Board of Chiropractic

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

64B2-13.004Continuing Education

The Board of Chiropractic Medicine hereby gives notice of the issuance of an Order regarding the Petition for Waiver or Variance, which was filed on February 3, 2015, by Raffaela Maria Amanda Villella. The Notice of Petition for Waiver or Variance was published in Volume 41, Number 24, of the February 5, 2015, Florida Administrative Register. The Petitioner was seeking a waiver or variance of subsections 64B2-13.004(1) and (2), F.A.C., entitled “Continuing Education,” and Rule 64B2-13.0049, F.A.C., entitled, “Inactive Status License,” which require that for the purpose of reactivating a license, an applicant must demonstrate to the Board that he or she participated in at least forty (40) classroom hours of continuing chiropractic education during the past two years, of which at least three hours shall be in the area of risk management. Two of these three risk management hours shall specifically relate to the laws and rules of the board and the regulatory agency under which the Board operates. Only those classroom hours earned at Board-approved continuing education courses or under the provisions of this rule are acceptable. Six (6) hours of the forty (40) shall be in the area of record keeping/documentation and coding; and two (2) hours of the forty (40) must be in the area of ethics and boundaries.

The Board considered the instant Petition at a duly-noticed meeting, held April 10, 2015, in Lake Mary, Florida. The Board’s Order, filed on April 30, 2015, granted the petition finding that Petitioner had established that the purpose of the underlying statute would be met by granting a variance or waiver from Rule 64B2-13.004, F.A.C. The Board further finds that Petitioner established that applying the requirements of the aforementioned rule to her circumstances would violate principles of fairness and impose substantial hardship.

A copy of the Order or additional information may be obtained by contacting: Anthony Spivey, Executive Director, Board of Chiropractic Medicine, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C07, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3257.