Registered Nurse (RN) License Renewal in Connecticut
Connecticut RNs renew every year with no general CE, only a 2-hour mental health training every 6 years. Connecticut joined the Nurse Licensure Compact in 2025.
| Renewal cycle | Every 1 year |
|---|---|
| CE hours required | Check with your board Connecticut sets no general continuing-education hour requirement for RN renewal. The only mandated training is 2 contact hours on mental health screening and suicide prevention, completed once and then once every 6 years. |
| Renewal fee | $110.00 |
| Mandatory CE topics | Mental health screening and suicide prevention (2 hrs, once, then every 6 years, required at renewals since January 1, 2022) |
| Licensing board | Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing (Department of Public Health) |
Sourced from Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing (Department of Public Health), verified July 25, 2026. Requirements change. Confirm with your board before relying on this.
Connecticut asks less continuing education of its nurses than almost any state in this reference. There is no general CE hour requirement to renew an RN license, none. The only mandated training is a short mental-health course, and only once every six years. The bigger news for Connecticut nurses in 2026 is about where the license can travel, not what it takes to keep it.
The only CE requirement: mental health, every six years
Connecticut requires no annual contact-hour total. What it does require is specific and infrequent: nurses renewing after January 1, 2022, and once every six years after that, complete 2 contact hours of training on (1) screening for conditions like PTSD, suicide risk, depression, and grief, and (2) suicide prevention. A contact hour is 50 minutes. That’s the whole CE requirement.
Because there’s no general hour count, the CE calculator on this site isn’t shown for Connecticut, the 2-hour mental-health training on its six-year clock is the only thing to track, and it’s listed in the requirement box as a reminder. You attest to it when you renew online, and you keep your certificate for three years in case the Department of Public Health asks.
Renewal is annual, on your birth month
Connecticut renews RN licenses every year, by the last day of your birth month. That yearly cadence is more frequent than most states in this reference, which mostly run two-year cycles, so the thing to internalize about Connecticut isn’t the CE (there’s barely any), it’s that the renewal itself comes around annually. Set the reminder.
Connecticut just joined the compact, in 2025
This is the update that matters, and it’s the one most guides get wrong. Connecticut implemented the Nurse Licensure Compact on October 1, 2025. For years Connecticut was a single-state jurisdiction, and a lot of CE-vendor pages and aggregators still say so. As of late 2025 that changed: if Connecticut is your primary state of residence, your RN license can now be a multistate license, letting you practice in the other compact states without applying separately in each. That’s a genuine shift for a New England nurse who works across state lines. The privilege follows your legal residence, so it holds as long as Connecticut stays home. Use the compact checker below to confirm Connecticut’s current status and see exactly which states the license reaches.
The fee
Renewal is $110, written into the statute itself: CGS 19a-88(c)(1) says a registered nurse registers annually during their birth month “upon payment of one hundred ten dollars.” The Department of Public Health lists the same number on its registered-nurse page. Because the fee is statutory rather than a board-adjusted schedule, it holds steady until the legislature changes it.
The thing to watch is the cadence, not the number. Connecticut charges that $110 every year, so a two-year span costs $220, more than most biennial states charge for a full cycle. Next to Georgia’s $65 every two years, a Connecticut nurse pays roughly three times as much over the same period, even though the sticker price looks modest.
Add your renewal deadline to your calendar
Enter your expiration date and download a calendar file. Your own calendar will remind you at 90, 60, 30, and 7 days out. We don't ask for your email, we store nothing, and the date never leaves your device.
Works with Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, and Outlook. This is a convenience, not a compliance service. Confirm your exact deadline with the Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing (Department of Public Health).
Renewal fee
Connecticut charges $110. The median across the 49 states that publish a figure is $100, running from $50 to $245. Ranked cheapest to dearest, Connecticut is 30 of 49.
Each mark is one state. The taller line is the median, the filled dot is Connecticut. States that set no flat hour count, or publish no fee, are left out of that comparison rather than counted as zero.
Where can you practice with your license?
The Nurse Licensure Compact lets a nurse who lives in a compact state hold one multistate license and practice in every other compact state. Pick where you live to see whether that's you, and where it reaches.
Member data from the NCSBN Nurse Licensure Compact map, verified July 2026. A multistate license requires the compact state to be your primary residence. This is a convenience, not legal advice. Confirm your status with your board or at nursecompact.com.
What will this renewal cost?
Connecticut's renewal fee is filled in from the board below. Add what you expect to spend on CE courses, plus a late fee if you're past due, for a running total. Nothing you type is stored.
The renewal fee is from the Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing (Department of Public Health) and dated on this page; the CE and late-fee figures are your own estimates. A convenience, not a compliance service, and not legal advice. Confirm fees with your board.