Continuing Education

Continuing Education

To ensure that all licensees maintain and improve their professional skills, each person holding a license issued by the Commission is required to participate in 16 hours of continuing education as a condition for renewal of individual or dual licenses. In order to assist our members is acquiring these continuing education hours, TFDA offers several opportunities to receive continuing education:

  • Regional meetings (go to the calendar page for time and place)
  • Annual convention (go to the convention page for more information)
  • NFDA offers an Online Distance Learning Center. To find out more information, click here or link to their website here.
  • APEX Continuing Education Solutions is our CE endorsed provider.  For a link to their website, click here.

Also to link to the Texas Funeral Service Commission website, click here. Go to the continuing education page to find out about requirements and other approved providers. ***NEW*** The Texas Funeral Service Commission is offering CE on October 4 & 5, 2010.  You can receive all 16 hours including mandatory courses.  Click here for application form.


For a link to the TDSHS website regarding the new on-line death registration and training opportunities, click here.


Click here for a list of the four Texas Mortuary Schools. The list contains e-mail and phone contacts for more information.