{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-43-44-11","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 43-44-11","heading":"Licensure in specialty; provisional and inactive licenses; renewal.","body":"(a) The board shall issue a certificate to each person whom it licenses as a speech-language pathologist, audiologist, or both. Licensure shall be granted independently in either speech-language pathology or audiology. Qualified applicants may be independently licensed in both areas.\n(b) The board may establish, through rules and regulations, a mechanism to provide for provisional and inactive status licenses to applicants.\n(c) The board may, in its discretion, upon payment of fees, grant a provisional license to an applicant who has satisfied the requirements of paragraph (1) of subsection (b) or paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (c) of Code Section 43-44-8 and who is engaged in a paid clinical experience. Such provisional license shall be valid for one year and subject to renewal for only one additional year. A person holding a provisional license shall be subject to the same disciplinary action as a person holding a full license.\n(d) All licenses shall be renewed biennially. Expiration, renewal, and penalty dates and provisions shall be as established by the board in accordance with Code Section 43-1-4.","path":["TITLE 43 Professions And Businesses","CHAPTER 44 Speech-language Pathologists and Audiologists","Article 1 State Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Licensing"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.43.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"4ba0164290c2a53649b8be657c53fe17eabee4541fe45d55dc9b71cc78798ebe","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-43-44-10","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-43-44-12"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}