CLE State Deadline Updates
In response to the Coronavirus, some states have updated their MCLE requirements to allow more time for credit completion. Please see below for the full list of updated state requirements. We will continue to monitor and update this page as we receive new information.
Last Updated 04/15/2020
| Alabama | (No updates to date) |
| Alaska | (No updates to date) |
| Arizona | Updates: The deadlines for the completion of MCLE hours and the required affidavit of compliance for the 2019‑2020 compliance year have been extended through 12/30/2020. |
| Arkansas | (No updates to date) |
| California | (No updates to date) |
| Colorado | (No updates to date) |
| Connecticut | Updates: MCLE requirements have been suspended. |
| Delaware | Updates: The requirement for live in‑person CLE credit has been waived for the two year periods ending 12/31/2020 and 12/31/2021 and the deadlines have been extended for the following: transcript verification is due 4/30/2020; completion of make-up plans is due 5/31/2020; and the report of completion is due 6/15/2020. |
| Florida | Updates: The deadline for justices and judges whose three-year reporting cycle terminates on or before 12/31/2020 has been extended to 12/31/2021. |
| Georgia | Updates: The requirement for live CLE credit has been temporarily waived. 12 credit hours can be completed through self-study, in-house, or online courses. Note: The late fee deadline for 2019 has been extended to 4/30/2020. |
| Hawaii | (No updates to date) |
| Idaho | (No updates to date) |
| Illinois | (No updates to date) |
| Indiana | Updates: Credit hour limitations on distance education courses have been waived for all whose three year educational period or judicial officer educational period ends on 12/31/2020, and distance education credit hour limitations have been adjusted to no more than 24 hours for judges and attorneys whose educational periods expire on or before 12/31/2022, and no more than 36 hours for state level judicial officers whose educational period expires on or before 12/31/2022. |
| Iowa | Updates: The six-credit-hour maximum for unmoderated activities has been waived. |
| Kansas | Updates: The limitation on prerecorded programming has been waived through 9/30/2020. The deadline for attendance remains 6/30/2020, however, there is now an automatic extension without penalty through 9/30/2020. |
| Kentucky | Updates: The 2019‑2020 deadline has been moved to 6/30/2021, combining the 2019‑2020 and 2020-2021 CLE reporting years. |
| Louisiana | (No updates to date) |
| Maine | Updates: The in‑person requirement has been suspended. |
| Minnesota | Updates: The 15-credit-hour limit for on-demand continuing legal education for Category 3 lawyers due to report August 31, 2020 has been suspended. Currently, the OASIS system will only permit 15 hours of on-demand credits. If you need to report more than 15 on-demand credits, please submit an Affidavit of CLE Compliance to clestaff@mbcle.state.mn.us. https://cle.mn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Appendix-III-Affidavit-of-CLE-Compliance-Fill-In.pdf. You do not need to submit the $10 paper filing fee. |
| Mississippi | (No updates to date) |
| Missouri | Updates: The reporting year for 2019‑2020 will be for the 15 months between July 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020, and the reporting deadline is extended until October 31, 2020. |
| Montana | (No updates to date) |
| Nebraska | Updates: The requirement for live CLE credit has been waived for the 2020 compliance year. |
| Nevada | (No updates to date) |
| New Hampshire | (No updates to date) |
| New Jersey | Updates: The requirement for live CLE credit has been waived until further notice. You may now complete all 24 credit hours via live webcasts, webinars and other alternative verifiable formats. |
| New Mexico | Updates: The reporting deadline for delinquent attorneys has been extended to 5/31/2020. |
| New York | (No updates to date) |
| North Carolina | (No updates to date) |
| North Dakota | Updates: Until further notice, attorneys in Reporting Group 3 who report in 2020, will be allowed to earn all, or a portion of the required 45 credits, through self-study. |
| Ohio | Updates: The 12-credit-hour maximum for self-study has been waived for the 2018/2019 late compliance deadline. In addition, the late compliance deadline for 2018/2019 has been extended to June 29, 2020. |
| Oklahoma | (No updates to date) |
| Oregon | (No updates to date) |
| Pennsylvania | Updates: The 4/30/2020 CLE deadline is now extended until 8/31/2020. |
| Rhode Island | (No updates to date) |
| South Carolina | Updates: Attorneys may now earn all or any portion of the required 14 CLE credit hours for the 2019‑2020 reporting year through online or telephone programs. In addition, attorneys who failed to comply with 2019‑2020 CLE requirements will be suspended if they do not file reports of compliance and pay the filing fee and any penalty by April 15, 2020. |
| Tennessee | Updates: The requirement for live CLE credit has been waived for the 2020 compliance year. This also pertains to attorneys seeking reinstatement in 2020. |
| Texas | Updates: Attorneys with compliance deadlines coming up in March, April, or May, as well as those who missed January and February deadlines have been granted an automatic 60-day extension. Attorneys facing suspension for failing to meet November or December compliance deadlines have been granted an additional one-month extension. |
| Utah | Updates: The requirement for live CLE credit has been waived for the remainder of the current reporting cycle, ending 6/30/2020. |
| Vermont | Updates: The 10-hour limitation on self-study CLE has been temporarily waived for the 2018-2020 reporting period. Attorneys with the upcoming deadline of 6/30/2020 can complete their entire requirement through approved self-study courses. |
| Virginia | (No updates to date) |
| Washington | Updates: The Washington Supreme Court has extended the deadline for WSBA to send its recommendations for licensing suspensions from 5/5/2020 to 6/30/2020. This applies to all members who are currently late complying with licensing payments and MCLE requirements (members on the pre-suspension list will be notified directly). |
| West Virginia | Updates: The requirement for live CLE credit has been temporarily waived. Attorneys can now earn all or any portion of the required 24 credit hours through video, audio, correspondence, telephone seminars, computer-based training courses and in-house instruction. |
| Wisconsin | Updates: The limit of 15 credit hours taken via on-demand has been lifted. However, ethics and professional responsibility credits must still be a live program (i.e. live webcast, national teleconference). |
| Wyoming | (No updates to date) |