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 in a two-year reporting period that exceed the MCLE requirement (including all required professional responsibility credits) for that reporting period, you may carry over hours, but the MCLE Rules set limits. You may carry over a maximum of 10 credit hours, including 6 professional responsibility (PR) hours, from the most recent reporting period in the past. Exceptions are explained below.
If you were eligible to carry over credits from your past reporting period and your excess credits included more PR credit than the 6 PR hours you were allowed to carry over, including the diversity/inclusion or mental health/substance abuse credits, those excess PR hours from the past reporting period were carried over 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 in 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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