Continuing Education

Please refer to the Continuing Education page of our website for information on CE requirements.

Courses must be approved before you submit your renewal, as part of the renewal process is reporting the approved courses you took.

Please refer to the Continuing Education page of our website for information on this process.

To see a list of programs that have been approved by the Commission you must search for the courses via the online certification and licensing system located on our home page. It is not a complete list of all programs in the State of Texas. Rather, it is just a list of courses that have been submitted to and approve by the JBCC.

Please refer to the pdf “Guide to Using the Online System” for step-by-step instructions on how to search for approved CE courses. 

If a course you want to take is not on the list, you must apply for course approval. Your application will be reviewed to determine if, based on the JBCC Rules, the course will be approved and, if so, for how many hours. Information on the course approval process is located on the Continuing Education page of our website.

Continuing education is granted in quarter hour increments. The total number of minutes is rounded to the nearest quarter hour. One hour of continuing education is equivalent to 60 minutes of actual instruction time.

You must report the JBCC approved CE courses you've taken when you apply for renewal of your certification. You must also upload copies of your certificates of attendance to your renewal application as well.

The program provider will issue you a course completion certificate or other documentation that you completed the course. If you have questions, please contact the program provider.

You can only receive credit for what you actually completed. For example, if the CE course was 8 hours but you only completed 3 hours, you can only receive 3 hours of credit for the course.

You can track the approved CE courses you've reported to the JBCC by logging in to our online certification and licensing system. For information on our system, please refer to the section titled “New Online Certification and Licensing System” on the home page our website. 

If you do not receive your course completion certificate, please contact the program provider.

Instructors who are licensees may apply with the JBCC to obtain CE credit for the portion of the course they taught. However, if the instructor did not teach the entire course, they may attend the remainder of the course to obtain credit for the whole course. 

Courses which are not approved by the JBCC as continuing education courses may not be used for license renewal. If the college course is a JBCC- approved continuing education course, then the course hours can be used for license renewal. However, the courses must be taken during the period of the license being renewed. 

Licensees are required to keep their course completion certificates for 3 years after the date of course completion.

Applications are processed as soon as possible. Also, please remember that course approvals must be submitted no later than 2 months before your certification expires.