How are carryover hours calculated from a two-year reporting period to the next?
Supreme Court Rule(s) cited in this FAQ:
Rule 794.
When you earn CLE hours for a two-year reporting period that equal or exceed both the general and specific professional responsibility (PR) MCLE requirements, you may carry over hours, but the MCLE Rules set limits. You may carry over a maximum of 10 credit hours, including 6 PR hours, from the most recent reporting period in the past. Exceptions are explained below.
If you earned more than 6 hours of professional responsibility credits, including diversity/inclusion or mental health/substance abuse credits, those excess hours will be credited to your current reporting period as general credits.
Please note that if you elect to earn credits during the grace period (the July 1 through October 31 immediately after the reporting year ended), you cannot carry over any excess credits you earned by June 30 into your next two-year reporting period. Those credits were earned for the then-current two-year reporting period but with the grace period extension, the transcript system automatically allocates credits earned for the current two-year reporting period to satisfy the requirements of the prior reporting period.
Any credits earned during the grace period in excess of what is needed to comply with the previous reporting period’s requirements are not considered carryover as they were earned for the new reporting period that began July 1.
The information in this FAQ applies to all reporting periods ending June 30, 2023 and after. Rule 794(c).
Newly admitted attorneys have a different calculation for carryover credit. To learn more, please click here.
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