New Rule Change Requires One Hour of Ethics or State Law - Beginning in 2009, all hearing instrument specialists and audiologists licensed under ORC 4747 are required to have one hour of ethics or state law as part of the ten (10) continuting education hours needed to renew your license. There are several ways to obtain this hour. There was a one hour ethics session at the Mid-America Conference on Hearing in Lexington, KY on June 4-6, 2009 and the Alliance will be providng a one hour session at the 2009 Fall conference in Dayton, OH on October 3rd or you can attend a licensing board meeting in Columbus to receive this credit. There are four (4) licensing board meetings per year. Contact Blake Chadwell at 614-466-5215 for more information.