Rule 1-508 Annual reporting.

This rule sets up a yearly schedule for tracking education requirements for people who work in the judicial branch. The clock starts on January 1st, right after someone becomes a judicial branch employee. From that point on, each reporting period runs for a full year, ending on December 31st.

This means the reporting year always follows the calendar year. So if someone joins the judicial branch partway through a year, their first official reporting period does not start until the following January 1st. After that, it simply resets every year on the same schedule, from January through December.