DPR Renewal Hub
DPR overhauled your renewal process in 2024. Renewals are different this year.
Read carefully, so your license is not delayed!
CAPCA created this page to answer all your questions and streamline your process.
We will update this regularly – check back often!
Table of Contents
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
In one way, the process is the same as it always was … you still have to mail your application to DPR.
Here is a step-by-step guide:
- Log into the CAPCA Portal.
- Navigate to the DPR Renewal Summary section on the lower right.
- Retrieve your DPR Renewal Summary.
Ensure that the record is complete.
See our other FAQ sections if it is incomplete. - DPR should have mailed your renewal packet to you. If you did not receive it, you can get a blank packet here.
- Review page 3 of the renewal packet. Insert all pages of your CAPCA pre-filled DPR Renewal Summary in place of page 4 of the renewal packet.
- Print the entire renewal packet. Review for completeness and accuracy. Sign it.
- Mail the renewal form, the DPR Renewal Summary, and your payment to:
ATTN: Cashier MS-4A
Department of Pesticide Regulation
PO Box 4015
Sacramento, CA 95812-4015
Tips:
- You may want to use USPS Certified Mail with return receipt. This way you will know if it was lost in transit.
- If using a corporate credit card for payment, you may not be notified if the payment was declined.
There is no guarantee that DPR, or your company, will notify you if your payment method fails.
First, please make sure your license was renewed at the time of the course. For example: if you took the course on January 10th, and your license was renewed on January 15th, then DPR will not count your credit for this course.
Otherwise:
- Here are CE Sponsors who refuse to use CE Hours Reported to help you track your DPR CE hours:
- PESTED.com
- Sonoma County Department of Agriculture
- San Joaquin County Office of Agricultural Commissioner
- JCS Marketing (i.e. Crop Consultant Conference)
- If your sponsor failed to use CE Hours Reported, you can Self Report CE and have it populate into the DPR Renewal Summary found on the CAPCA Portal.
- Tell you favorite CE sponsors about CE Hours Reported!
- Here is an info sheet to email them.
- Here is a YouTube video to share.
Going forward, support CE Sponsors who are using CE Hours Reported – look for the trust mark!
- We are in the process of integrating CAPCA’s Online Learning platform with CE Hours Reported.
- In the meantime, this is a manual data transfer process and will occur weekly.
- Please look for your Online CE credit early next week!
Great news! Starting in 2025, CAPCA will now offer comprehensive CE tracking and CE reporting to our Associate members who have a QAL or QAC
Here’s how:
- Become an Associate member.
- Find your DPR Renewal Summary on the Member Portal.
¡Excelentes noticias! A partir de 2025, CAPCA ofrecerá seguimiento integral de CE y reportes de CE a nuestros miembros Asociados que tengan una QAL o QAC.
Así es como funcionará:
- Hazte miembro Asociado (“Associate member”).
- Encuentra tu Resumen de Renovación del DPR (“DPR Renewal Summary“) en el Portal de Miembros.
Updates to your DPR renewal process
What is happening?
DPR has increased licensing fees effective August 5, 2024. Renewals post-marked before August 4, 2024 will be charged the previous fee(s). See the new fee structure here.
CAPCA has been advocating against unreasonable licensing fee increases for years. Previously, you paid $140 for your PCA license. This “emergency increase” means you will now pay $320. We recognize that many PCAs also hold additional licenses and will, therefore, have a compounding impact as the fee increase is consistent per license held.
We have communicated to DPR that they will likely see a larger than expected decrease in license renewals (whether from retirement or lack of use) with the fee increase.
How do you feel about the fee increase and DPR’s service?
What is CAPCA doing?
DPR held a 30-day public comment period ending on May 24, 2024. CAPCA Members downloaded our letter template over 200 times and sent it to DPR. Thank you for your efforts!
Feel free to express your opinion with CAPCA Staff, but you will have more of an impact by contacting your lawmaker.
CAPCA is continuing to pursue accountability, transparency, and response time for licensees by championing identified issues to appropriate stakeholders.
Official Statement from DPR:
On July 15, 2024, DPR issued a Notice of Proposed Emergency Action. DPR proposes to amend sections 6502 and 6505 of Title 3, California Code of Regulations relating to license and certificate application, renewal, and exam fees. DPR also proposes to amend forms, incorporated by reference in section 6502, to reflect the new fees and make nonsubstantive changes. DPR intends to submit this proposed emergency action to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) for review on July 23, 2024, at which time a five-day public comment period will begin that closes on July 28, 2024. Upon filing, OAL will have ten calendar days within which to review and make a decision on the proposed emergency rule. If approved, OAL will file the regulations with the Secretary of State, and the emergency regulations will become effective on August 5, 2024.
CAPCA Members get pre-filled DPR Renewal Summary
Per DPR regulatory changes in 2024, PCAs must now present all of their CE course data in DPR’s form LIC-141. DPR will reject any course summary that is not entered into this form.
CAPCA PCA’s are covered!
- CAPCA’s active PCA Members can download a pre-filled DPR form LIC-141 on their Member Dashboard under “DPR Renewal Summary.“
- Associate Members with a QAL/QAC: Please see the FAQ section.
- This pre-filled form contains all your CE course information that was submitted to either the legacy CECPM system (Scantron) –or- submitted to CAPCA’s new CE Hours Reported tracking system, all in one place.
- You do not need to submit verifications of attendance (VOAs) in your renewal packet. Keep them as back up in case your course record is audited.
- If a course is missing the Name of CE Sponsor:
- DPR requires the Name of the CE Sponsor.
- This is the name of the organization (i.e. “CAPCA Desert Valley Chapter”, “ABC Chemical Co.”, “Siskiyou Dept. of Ag”)
- You can find the name of the CE Sponsor on your verification of attendance (VOA), from memory, or by searching for the course here on DPR’s website.
- DPR will reject your application if you leave this blank, but they appear to be accepting written names, even when they are not entirely accurate.
- If your DPR Renewal Summary is missing a course, here is what you can do:
- You can Self Report CE into CAPCA’s database and it will be integrated into your DPR Renewal Summary
- (Fast) Let the CE Sponsor(s) know you want your hours tracked through CE Hours Reported by sending them this info.
- (As fast as we can) CAPCA will reach out to CE Sponsors as well.
Please provide as much information as you can in this form: Missing a CE Course?
Share your thoughts about DPR with your Lawmaker
Your Action Steps:
1. Find your representative and select them from the first drop down menu.
2. Fill in all required contact information for your State Assemblymember. They’re there to help you, and may follow up!
3. Copy the template below and Paste in the “Personal DPR Feedback” section.
4. Replace the BOLDED items with information specific to you. The more you personalize it, the more likely they will take it seriously.
5. Click Send Feedback at the bottom.
Template of a Personal Feedback
Need CE hours now?
CAPCA is in the process of applying for online CE
Find CE courses on CE Hours Reported
CAPCA has a variety of ways to maintain your continuing education for the year including Online CE (above), and chapter events and statewide conferences. You can find the details on CE Events by following the link to the right.