Mississippi OT and OTA license renewal and continuing education
Mississippi’s occupational therapy regulations state: “Regulations set the requirement of 20 contact hours (CH) or 2 Continuing Education Units (CEU) to be accrued during the licensure period.”
Quoted from official pages checked November 12, 2026. Confirm current requirements, fees, and dates on those sites. This page is not legal advice and does not guarantee eligibility, certification, or licensure.
Source read on November 12, 2026: the Mississippi State Department of Health’s Regulations Governing Licensure of Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants (PDF), Rules 8.6.1 and 8.7.2.
Cycle
“The Board shall issue licenses which shall be subject to renewal biennially.” The licensure period runs May 1 through April 30 of even-numbered years (paraphrased).
Live hours, ethics, and carryover
“Thirteen (13) hours are required to be live face-to-face training”. Live webinars count if the certificate says the course was live, and at least six of the 13 live hours must relate directly to the clinical practice of occupational therapy (paraphrased). Two contact hours of ethics are required each licensure period, and up to seven hours may be non-live (paraphrased). “No carryover of continuing education hours from one licensure period to another shall be allowed.”
NBCOT certification
Licensees may renew by submitting proof of current NBCOT certification instead of CE certificates, but the two ethics hours are still required (paraphrased).
What this page does not do
It covers the state occupational therapy license only, and only what the official page or pages named above say. It does not cover NBCOT certification renewal, does not list fees, and does not replace the board’s own instructions. Rules change; check the board before you renew.