Guardianship Certification

To renew your certification, you must:

1. Complete twelve (12) hours of JBCC approved CE, including 2 hours in ethics and 1 hour in legislative update.
   • You can carry forward 4 hours of CE to your next certification period. Ethics and Legislative update hours cannot be carried forward.
2. Submit the Application for Renewal of Certification.  
   • To apply for renewal, please go to the online certification and licensing system on our home page. 
   • Login to your online profile.
   • Click Renew on the What Do You Want to Do menu of your profile. 
     • Do not click the option for CE Approval Request as that is not the correct form for renewal purposes.
3. Submit copies of CE documentation for completed CE programs by uploading them to your renewal application. The following information must be included on your certificates of completion:
   1. The JBCC assigned program number.
   2. The name of the course provider.
   3. The title of the course.
   4. The date you completed the course.
   5. The number of hours you completed.
   6. The list of sessions you completed.
   7. The signature of the course provider.
4. Pay the application fee. Please see the Fees section of this page for information on amounts due, acceptable forms of payment, etc. 
   • When paying the application fee on the Credit Card page of the application, the payment portal vendor requires you to enter the billing address on file with the credit card company of the cardholder.
5. Pass a criminal history background check with DPS and the FBI. An updated criminal history report is required. 
   • Staff will email the required form needed to schedule their fingerprinting appointment to applicants who have not yet been fingerprinted for the JBCC, after we’ve received their applications. (See Criminal History section of this page for more details). 
   • If you've already been fingerprinted for the JBCC's Guardian Certification Department, you are not required to be fingerprinted again.

Fees

All fees are non-refundable. However, if you have a fee dispute you must submit it to guardians@txcourts.gov for resolution.

Acceptable forms of payment: Credit Card or Debit Card