CFE and Renewal
Forensic Analyst or Technician License Renewal
ALiS Instructions for Individual License Renewal
License renewal applicants must fulfill CFE requirements as described in Texas Administrative Code §651.208. Applicants may apply to renew a forensic analyst or technician license up to 90 days prior to the expiration of the two-year license term. Renewed licenses take effect on the day following the date the applicant's previous license expired.
If you are applying to renew your license, you will receive login information and instructions for setting up your account in the ALiS licensing platform 90 days before your license expires. Setup for current licensees occurs at the following link: ALIS Licensing Platform Account Setup for Current Licensees.
If you are already in the system and setup, renewing for the second time in ALiS--you'll visit the main ALiS landing page to login.
Continuing Forensic Education ("CFE")
CFE Instructions and Requirements
Forensic Analysts and Technicians will report all of their CFE over the two-year license period at the time of renewal (up to 60 days prior to the expiration of the license). CFE can be reported anytime during your license period by logging into the Forensic Science Commission's licensing system.
To renew a forensic analyst or technician license, licensees must complete the Commission-sponsored mandatory legal and professional responsibility update by the expiration of each two-year license cycle. Forensic Technicians are not required to complete any other continuing forensic education requirements. Mandatory legal and professional responsibility training topics may include training on current and past criminal forensic legal issues, professional responsibility, human factors, courtroom testimony, disclosure and discovery requirements under state and federal law, and other relevant topics as designated by the Commission. The course may be accessed and completed anytime during your license term.
All forensic analysts are be required to satisfy the following Continuing Forensic Education Requirements:
- Completion of thirty-two (32) continuing forensic education hours per 2-year license cycle.
- Sixteen (16) hours of the thirty-two (32) must be discipline-specific training, peer-reviewed journal articles, and/or conference education hours. If a licensee is licensed in multiple forensic disciplines, at least eight (8) hours of discipline-specific training in each forensic discipline are required.
- The remaining sixteen (16) hours may be general forensic training, peer-reviewed journal articles, and/or conference education hours that include hours credited for the mandatory legal and professional responsibility training.
Approved continuing forensic education hours are applied for credit on the date the program and/or training is delivered.
CFE Forms
Proficiency Monitoring Certification Form
All renewal applicants must submit an updated copy of the proficiency monitoring certification form signed by the licensee's authorized laboratory representative. An updated copy of the form should be submitted by your supervisor, at renewal or when any other changes are applicable, in the ALiS licensing system under the laboratory's profile.
Proficiency Monitoring Certification Form
Instructions for Laboratory/Other Entity Submissions in ALiS
De Minimis Texas Casework License Renewal
De Minimis Texas Casework License Renewal for Laboratories
Laboratories seeking renewal of a De Minimis Texas Casework License should fill out a new application for a De Minimis Texas Casework License up to 90 days prior to the expiration of the laboratory's license. The ALiS licensing platform will send an automated notice to the laboratory's main contact email at 90 days before the expiration date. Laboratories should log into their ALiS account at this link to follow the on-screen steps to submit a De Minimis renewal application in ALiS. If you need help with your laboratory's login information, please email staff at licensing@fsc.texas.gov.
Upon approval, renewing laboratories will receive an invoice based on the number of analysts named in the application and payment for the license must be remitted within thirty (30) days. Laboratories should submit this application along with the spreadsheet of employees who perform non-interpreting work for the laboratory to accurately calculate the total cost.
For periodic updates to the laboratory's non-interpreting spreadsheet/list, please follow the Instructions for Laboratory/Other Entity Submissions in ALiS.
De Minimis Texas Casework License Renewal for Non-interpreting Analysts
Nothing new is needed from non-interpreting analysts other than to be listed again on the non-interpretive analyst/technician spreadsheet attached to the updated laboratory's renewal application. However, all analysts must take the Mandatory Legal and Professional Responsibility Course each license cycle which must be certified as part of the form.
De Minimis Texas Casework License Renewal for Interpreting Analysts
Follow the instructions for regular individual license renewal.