Continuing Eduction

Annual CE Requirement

Each certified court reporter shall be required to attend a minimum of 10 hours of approved training per calendar year.

Newly Certified Court Reporters

A newly certified court reporter is not required to acquire credit hours for initial calendar year, but each newly certified court reporter shall be required to take the first Learning Essentials About Professionalism (LEAP) seminar authorized by the Board after their certification.

Where to Get Credits

GCCRA provides 10  hours of continuing education each year. For seminar information, please click our seminar tab.

CE VS. CEU

Licensing boards monitor their licensees’ continuing education credits in two different ways: continuing education credits (CE) and continuing education units (CEU). One CEU (1.0) is equivalent to ten CEs (10). ICJE/Georgia: CE NCRA: CEUNVRA: CE

Conversion Table

The purpose of the continuing education requirement is to promote the highest possible standards in court reporting. The CE requirement was enacted by the Board of Court Reporting of the Judicial Council of Georgia to provide for a diverse selection of continuing education options that will help each member of the Georgia court reporting community keep up-to-date with the tools, technology, knowledge, and skills of court reporting. Additionally, the Georgia CE program strives to encourage each reporter’s growth as a professional, to broaden the perspective and approach toward the responsibilities and functions of the profession, and to promote interaction and exchange of ideas among court reporters.

Verification of Attendance

Verification of educational contact hours must be certified in writing by the CE provider and can take the form of:

• Certificate of Completion

• CE transcript (NCRA, NVRA)

• Letter with original signature from the CE provider

• Attendance punch card from a preapproved court reporting seminar

• Final grade report or transcript from a college or university degree program

ICJE cannot grant CE credit for training from a receipt issued by the CE provider.  You must submit verification of actual attendance. Within 30 days after completing a continuing education class, you must submit a Request for Credit to ICJE in order for your hours to be entered into your CE record. A complete Request for Credit includes the following:

• CRTC-1 Request for Credit form (available on website)

• CRTC-2 Course Evaluation form (available on website)

• Verification of Attendance issued by CE provider

• Copy of course schedule or agenda (optional if the course was preapproved)

The CE request can be submitted by mail or fax. The mailing address is:

The Institute of Continuing Judicial Education

Attn: Court Reporting
1150 South Milledge Avenue
Athens GA 30602-5025

Fax number: 775-942-2758

Always keep a copy for your own records.

The CRTC has asked ICJE to enforce the 30-day submission deadline. Late submission may result in delay or denial of credit. Timely submission benefits everyone by providing for better course evaluation feedback, making it easier to keep track of attendance records, and spreading the administrative workload to keep costs down.

If you are submitting your CE request by fax, you do not need to mail a request to ICJE.  You will be able to confirm your hours online by clicking the Resources tab.

If, however, you submit a fax in December, you may not be able to confirm those hours until mid-January, well after the CE deadline. In that situation, it is advisable to mail a backup – postmarked by 12/31 – just in case!

Confirmation of CE Hours

Your CE hours will appear on the CE Credit Hour Status link at the ICJE Court Reporters website within about 45 days (often much sooner) after your paperwork is submitted to ICJE. At this link, you can view the hours you earned and your progress toward completing the CE requirements for the previous year, current year and next year. The CE Credit Hour Status list is updated monthly, at the beginning of each month, and twice in December.

If you prefer to receive an individual acknowledgment from ICJE, simply include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your CE submission.

If you suspect that ICJE did not receive your submission, please do not hesitate to contact them directly. Email is often quicker than telephone voicemail, but either method will work.

If your CE submission is received by mid-month, it should appear in the update at the beginning of the next month. If it arrives late in the month, it may or may not appear with the next update depending on the backlog of data processing.

In general, you should find your hours updated at the beginning of the first or second month after you send your submission to ICJE.

In December, prior to the 12/31 CE deadline, the hours are updated a second time mid-month, before the ICJE offices close for the University of Georgia year-end holiday.
In January, the update is usually the second or third week in the month, due to a backlog of holiday mail. However, all mail postmarked by 12/31 is processed prior to compiling the CE-deadline suspension list.

For additional questions regarding CE’s, you may contact ICJE using the above information or visit their website at www.uga.edu/icje(click “Court Reporters”).