SECTION 505:10-3-7. Acceptance of Military education, training, and experience toward qualification for licensure examination

(a)   Any person wanting to apply education, training, and experience completed as a member of the Armed Forces or Reserves of the United States, National Guard of any state, the Military Reserves of any state, or the Naval Militias of any state (hereafter the Armed Forces) may submit to the Board, through the Executive Secretary, satisfactory evidence of that education, training, and experience.

(b)   The Board, through the Executive Secretary, may request and require such additional evidence or information regarding education, training, and experience completed as a member of the Armed Forces as it, in its sole discretion, deems reasonably necessary.

(c)   Upon receipt of evidence and information the Board, through the Executive Director, or otherwise, shall review the evidence and information provided and apply it in the most favorable manner toward satisfying the qualifications for sitting for the licensure examination.

(d)   If upon review the evidence and information, applied most favorably toward satisfying the qualification for issuance of a license, is not sufficient to justify sitting for the licensure examination, the Board shall notify the applicant what additional education, training, or experience is necessary.

(e)   Nothing in the submission of evidence of education and training, and the consideration of that education and training in the most favorable manner, pursuant to this section relieves an applicant of the obligation of passing the licensure examination given by the Board as a prerequisite to licensure. See, 59 O.S. § 4100.7.

(f)   Additionally, in determining if an applicant has satisfactory education, training, and experience to sit for the licensure examination, the Board may verify that the applicant has:

(1)   not to been subject to pending criminal charges or disciplinary actions;

(2)   not been convicted of any offense prohibiting licensure;

(3)   no other impairment that prohibits licensure in this state, including, but not limited to, professional discipline in another state that would, if committed in Oklahoma, potentially justify loss of license.

[Source: Added at 30 Ok Reg 2136, eff 8-25-13]