Please visit the Membership page of our website to view the most current information on PAPA membership benefits.
Regardless of the date your membership is purchased, the following information applies:
- PAPA membership always expires on December 31 of the respective year. (All 2024 memberships expire on December 31, 2024.)
- PAPA membership covers hours tracking (for licensees whose highest-ranking certificate or license is a QAC or QAL) from January 1 – December 31 of the respective year. (2024 membership covers hours tracking from January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024.)
Please refer to the tables on page two of this document (from DPR's website): www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/license/gen_info.pdf
- Most QAC/QALs require 20 hours of CE (minimum of 4 must be laws).
- QAC holders with only subcategory Q need 8 hours (minimum of 2 must be laws).
- QAC/QAL holders with only category H need 4 hours (minimum of 2 must be laws).
Law hours minimums must be met. Excess law hours can be applied to your total number of hours. If you are renewing for the first time, you may not need the full hours requirement. Again, please refer to the tables on page two of this document.
Please go to DPR's website for more information: www.cdpr.ca.gov
DPR licensees need to complete their hours within their 2-year licensing period, but are not restricted as to how many hours are earned per year. (Example: You can get 10 hours each year, 14 hours in one year and 6 the next, 20 hours all in one year, etc.) You may only earn hours between the issue date and expiration dates that are printed on your DPR certificate/license card.
You must complete the required hours by December 31 of your expiration year. You can renew your license for up to one year after it expires, but you will be subject to a late fee after December 31 of your expiration year.
You may only earn hours between the issue date and expiration dates that are printed on your DPR certificate/license card.
As of 2024, all CE course sponsors are required to report our attendance to DPR. PAPA is in compliance with this new requirement.
You must still submit a Continuing Education Record Renewal Summary form to DPR with your DPR renewal packet. PAPA cannot submit this form to DPR for you.
NEW IN 2024: DPR is no longer accepting official reports with renewal packets. Instead of including the report we provide, you must fill out the Continuing Education Record Renewal Summary form of DPR's renewal packet. DPR will not accept any other forms. You may use the information on the "Check Hours" page of your PAPA account or report we provide as a reference when filling out the Continuing Education Record Renewal Summary form. We will still be mailing A-L members a copy of their official reports in July 2024. After this mailing any additional copies needed must be requested by emailing certificates@papaseminars.com. If you are an eligible PAPA member, you may also email certificates@papaseminars.com for assistance with filling out the Continuing Education Record Renewal Summary form.
If your last name begins with A-L, you will renew on even-numbered years.
If your last name begins with M-Z, you will renew on odd-numbered years.
DPR sends out renewal applications each summer for the current renewal period. If you do not receive your renewal application please contact DPR's Licensing Department at 916-445-4038 or licensemail@cdpr.ca.gov.
You can also download the DPR renewal application here.
PAPA courses will be reflected on your report within 2-3 weeks of completion.
Courses taken with other sponsors can take 2-6 weeks to be processed onto your report. Starting in 2025, PAPA will only be able to track hours that our members earn at PAPA courses.
The process for courses to appear on your report goes as follows:
Course sponsor submits your attendance information on your behalf directly to CECPM > CECPM processes and records your attendance > PAPA has access to the CECPM database, which is where the member CE reports we provide are drawn from.
There is no workaround for the above process. Please do not send PAPA copies of your certificates from courses taken with other sponsors as we cannot add them to your report.
Attendance for a course may be missing from your record for any one of the following reasons:
- The attendance has yet to be sent to CECPM.
- You may have signed the sign-in sheet or completed the scantron with the wrong license number.
- You may have forgotten to sign in or turn in your scantron at the time of the course.
- Course sponsors may delete your record of attendance if your registration is not paid in full. This deletion can be reinstated with proper payment.
- Course sponsors are not required by DPR or any laws to submit hours to CECPM for processing. If the sponsor of your course does/will not send your hours to CECPM, then there is no way for PAPA to track your hours for that course.
If the attendance does not appear on your record within 2-6 weeks of the course and you feel that any of these may apply to you, please contact the course sponsor.
Please also note that as of 2024 DPR is requiring CE sponsors to report attendance directly to DPR. When a course sponsor reports to DPR, this does not necessarily mean that they have also reported to CECPM. In order for us to track a course, it must also be reported to CECPM.
You may update your contact information when logged into your account in our website (sign in and then go to "Update Profile & Contact Details"). Email address changes must be made by a PAPA staff member. Please email info@papaseminars.com so that we can update it for you. Please remember to include your certificate/license number, if you have one.
All licensees, regardless of license type, must also send any change of address or contact information to DPR. PAPA cannot update your address with DPR for you.
Our CE courses are designed to provide Continuing Education to licensed pesticide applicators. Our Test Prep courses are designed for those who wish to take the DPR exam to obtain a QAC or QAL.
Email info@papaseminars.com for login assistance.
Each email address can only be used to set up one account.
If you are registering someone else, not yourself, then you must sign in to their account. If they do not already have an account, create one with their name and contact information.
We can set up a Group Administrator account for you if you have multiple people that you are responsible for registering or if you'd like to be able to register other people by signing into your account. Please email info@papaseminars.com to create a Group Administrator account.
If you need assistance with our on-demand course website, www.papaseminarsondemand.com, please email ondemand@papaseminars.com. That website and the logins to access it are completely separate from the website you're on right now, www.papaseminars.com.
All PAPA courses are/will be approved for DPR CE.
PAPA webinars each offer 3.0-3.5 hours of CE. The number of laws vs. other hours varies, but we try to get at least 1.0 law hour per webinar.
PAPA seminars each offer 7.0 - 8.0 hours of CE. The number of laws vs. other hours varies, but we try to get at least 2.0 law hours per seminar.
PAPA online courses, hosted on www.papaseminarsondemand.com, each offer 1.0 other hour of CE.
On our CE Courses page, click on "Agenda" next to a course to the the course's DPR approval status, breakdown of laws/other hours, date, time, location, and outline. Agendas will state either Requested or Approved. Requested means that we do not yet have final DPR approval of the breakdown of laws/other hours. As soon as approval is received, agendas are updated.
PAPA also applies for the following accreditations for our webinars and seminars: CCA, GCSAA, ISA, Vector/MVCAC. Please look at the course agendas to see if courses are approved for these accreditations.
Yes, we do! Please visit www.papaseminarsondemand.com to learn about our 1-hour on-demand online courses.
