(A) County auditors annually shall complete satisfactorily a minimum of eighteen hours of continuing education courses which the Comptroller General establishes or causes to be established. Failure to complete satisfactorily these courses in any year results in the auditor forfeiting one thousand dollars of his state salary supplement for that year as this supplement is provided in the annual general appropriations act. The content, cost, and dates of the courses must be determined by the Comptroller General.
(B) The Comptroller General, for reasonable cause, may excuse a county auditor from attending these courses for any year. If excused, the auditor does not forfeit one thousand dollars of his state salary supplement for that year.