Texas Funeral Professionals CE Package
This package includes everything you need to complete your Texas funeral license requirements, including your state-mandated courses.
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
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Ethical Standards in the Funeral Industry 2
Course release date: 7/10/2023
About the Course:
This course has been developed to create a framework surrounding ethics within the funeral service industry. The principles of ethics are critical in this field of service, since human interaction and empathy are the driving force behind what funeral professionals do. This course will identify the impact of basic ethical principles not only on an individual level, but also on an organizational level, and their overall influence on the success of our industry. -
Texas Mortuary and Crematory Law - 2026 Update 2
Course release date: 10/16/2025
Course Overview
The Texas Mortuary and Crematory Law Update course provides a review of regulations governing the funeral service and death care industry in Texas. The course covers updates to statutes and rules in the Texas Occupations Code, Health and Safety Code, and Administrative Code related to licensing, inspections, continuing education requirements, and ethical standards for funeral directors, embalmers, and funeral establishments.
Key topics include the Texas Funeral Service Commission's responsibilities, license renewal procedures, new legislative changes, complaint investigation processes, and required documentation for embalming services. The course is intended to keep Texas funeral professionals informed about current laws and regulations that impact their licensure and professional responsibilities when serving clients. -
Texas Vital Statistics - 2026 Update 2
Course release date: 10/16/2025
Course Overview
This course is intended for Texas funeral service professionals seeking to renew their licenses. The course reviews Texas legislation, administrative code, and regulations pertaining to vital statistics, death records, cemeteries, cemetery organizations, lawn crypts, and disinterment permits. Relevant sections of the Texas Health and Safety Code and Texas Administrative Code are summarized with a focus on recent updates to the code. The course satisfies the two continuing education hours in vital statistics requirements and regulations mandated by the Texas Funeral Service Commission (TFSC) before license renewal. -
Above Ground: Anatomical Embalming Roles in Society, 2nd Edition 1
Course Release Date: 4/8/2024
About the Course:
This course is intended for any death care professional whose field of practice includes embalming, be it for a funeral home or anatomically for an institution of health. The course details the origins, evolution, and modern-day practical application of embalming cadavers, and explores its differences from embalming for funerals. The intermediate course explores the medical versus presentational sides of preservation tactics used by embalmers in the death care industry, as well as its past, present, and future.
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Evolving Funeral Practices: Modern Trends 3
Course release date: 12/17/2025
Course Overview
This course will bring funeral industry professionals up to speed on current trends in the funeral profession, with an emphasis on green funerals, cremation, and burial practices. It examines how the industry has evolved over time and explores which current funeral trends are likely to become tomorrow’s standard practices. The course also delves into the underlying reasons for these shifts in funeral preferences and services. -
Modern Restorative Arts and Embalming Techniques, 2nd Edition 3
Release Date: 1/8/2024
About the Course:
This course is an intermediate course that is designed to provide some updated information on the new trends and advanced procedures for embalming, restorative art, and burial in the funeral profession. Let’s face the fact that much of the funeral industry has been stuck in the past with limited exposure to advancement and ideas of modern modalities to create a better environment. The past has been passed on for generations and what has been done has been passed on from one generation to another with limited training on the new advances and what could be done. With every changing world and new blood coming into the funeral industry, we start to see these ideas coming up, but still hold habits that are hard to break to introduce these new technological advances. This course isn’t created to force these ideas on you, but to share what is available and to better share what might be working and what might not to better help you grow in this era. -
The Funeral Rule 3
Course release date: 10/9/2023
About the Course
Along with an understanding of state and local laws, it is vital for funeral professionals to be familiar with the federal government’s Funeral Rule. This course will assist the funeral provider in complying with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) Funeral Rule.