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In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the board of bar examiners. (1m) “CLE” means continuing legal education. (2) "Committee" means a panel comprising at least 3 members of the board. (3) (Repealed) (4) "Hour" means a period of approved continuing legal education consisting of not less than 50 minutes. (5) "Inactive member" means an inactive member of the state bar under SCR 10.03(3) and the bylaws of the state bar. (6) "Lawyer" means an active member of the state bar under SCR 10.03(3) and the bylaws of the state bar and includes an active member under suspension other than a person under a form of suspension that will terminate only on order of the court or a person suspended pursuant to SCR 31.10(1). (6m) "Repeated on-demand program" means an on-line program delivered over the Internet, consisting of a program previously approved by the board. (7) "Reporting period" means the two-year period ending December 31 during which a lawyer must satisfy the Wisconsin continuing legal education requirement of SCR 31.02. The reporting period for a lawyer is determined by the year of his or her admission to the practice of law in Wisconsin. The reporting period for a lawyer admitted in an even-numbered year shall end on December 31 of each even-numbered year; the reporting period for a lawyer admitted in an odd-numbered year shall end on December 31 of each odd-numbered year. (8) "State bar" means the state bar of Wisconsin. (9) "Electronic CLE reporting system" means a web-based system established by the board of bar examiners through which lawyers may electronically file an original or amended report of their CLE compliance. (10) "Electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with an electronically-filed 257 CLE report that can be executed or adopted by the reporting lawyer with the intent to sign the document under oath or affirmation. (11) "Pro Bono legal services" means direct legal services provided without fee or expectation of fee to persons of limited means through a qualified pro bono program or pursuant to an appointment by a state or federal court. (12) "Qualified pro bono program" means: (a) a pro bono program operated by a nonprofit legal services organization that receives funding from the Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation; (b) a pro bono program operated by a Wisconsin law school; (c) a pro bono program existing on the date that this rule is adopted that is operated by a Wisconsin bar association; or (d) a program approved by the board as a qualified pro bono program.