Condo directors owe one education hour every year. Here is when it starts.
By Carlos Castellano · Current as of
Condo board certification lasts seven education years, so it is easy to assume the education is done for seven years too. It is not. Every condo director also owes a small annual obligation: one hour of continuing education, every year, on what changed in the law. It is the smallest requirement in Florida’s board-education system and the easiest one to forget. Here is how it works.
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The rule, in one sentence
Section 718.112(2)(d)5.b., Florida Statutes, provides that one year after submission of the most recent written certification and educational certificate, and annually thereafter, a director must submit a certificate of having satisfactorily completed at least 1 hour of continuing education relating to any recent changes to Chapter 718 and the related administrative rules during the past year.
Three pieces to notice: no hour is owed in the year you certify, the obligation repeats every education year after that, and the subject matter is specific. Each is worth unpacking.
Your clock is the education year
Florida counts board education in education years, which run from July 1 to June 30. The Division’s Rule 61B-19.001, Florida Administrative Code, effective September 3, 2026, puts the condo hour on that calendar. Paragraph (6)(d) requires one hour of continuing education per education year in each education year that a certification course is not completed, and paragraph (6)(a)2. makes it due on or before the end of the education year. Continuing education is due by June 30 each education year. The HOA hours run on the same calendar, covered in the HOA continuing-education article.
A worked example. Say you complete the course on September 1, 2026 and file your paperwork with the secretary. That falls in the education year that runs from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027, and no hour is owed for it. Your first annual hour is due by June 30, 2028, and one more is due by every June 30 after that for as long as you serve. Every director on the board has the same due date.
This design also answers a question new directors often ask: no continuing-education hour is owed in the education year you complete the certification course. A brand-new director is never doing the certification course and the annual hour at the same time.
What the hour must cover
This is not general board training. The statute names the subject: recent changes to Chapter 718, the condominium act, and its related administrative rules during the past year. It is a legislative update, refreshed each year, which means the course you take next year will not be the course you took this year.
Some years that update has a lot to carry. 2025 brought HB 913, a broad rewrite of condo operations. Other years the Legislature is quiet, as in 2026, though that year the Division rewrote its education rules, which is exactly what the hour is for. If you want to see what an update year actually contains, our summary is in what the 2024 and 2025 laws changed.
The annual hour and your certificate are separate things
A director carries two independent statuses, and boards mix them up constantly. Your certification is the credential, valid for seven education years, from the written certification plus the course. The annual hour is a separate, recurring obligation that starts the education year after you certify. Completing the annual hour does not extend your certificate, and holding a valid certificate does not excuse this year’s hour. Track both, per director, with dates.
Who checks, and what to keep
Since July 1, 2025, the Division of Florida Condominiums has express authority to enforce board-education requirements, so this is not an honor-system rule. The proof is a certificate of completion, submitted like the rest of your certification paperwork and kept in the association’s official records. The practical routine: complete the hour with an approved provider, get the certificate, give it to the secretary, and keep your own copy with your completion date on it.
Your certification and your annual hours are separate obligations, and both run on the education year. BoardComply keeps every certificate it issues in your account, dated, so you can check either one without digging. Not certified yet? Start with the condo training.