CE Hours
What are my SB546/SB929 Hours? as of 10-13-2020
Note: These are the hours required under SB546 and SB929. All TACs are subject to SB546 provisions and TACs that collect property taxes and take office after 5/18/2017 are subject to both SB546 and SB929 provisions. For a full description of Continuing Education for County Tax Assessors, please see Texas Property Tax Code Sec. 6.231.
Deputy Certification CE Hours as of 10-13-2020
Certification Reinstatement Policy
Find Your TAC# as of 03-02-2020 click here.
TACA Professional Designation Program Requirements - Updated 1/1/2020
NEW CHANGES TO THE TACA PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATION CERTIFICATION EDUCATION PROGRAM
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2019 and JANUARY 1, 2020
To obtain a TACA professional designation certification the TACA Active member must complete all required courses AND have completed two (2) years of experience as the County Tax Assessor-Collector.
To obtain a TACA professional designation certification the TACA Associate member must have at least two (2) years of experience working in a county tax office.
The TACA Course Ethics for County Tax Assessor-Collectors is required to be completed once every twenty-four (24) months to maintain any TACA professional designation certification. This provision applies to all Active and Associate members of TACA that hold a TACA Professional Designation Certification on January 1, 2019 and thereafter.
Title Fraud training (formerly known as Red Flag training) is now a mandatory course to obtain a CTOP and/or PCC certification.
The following TxDMV Training Modules are now required to earn the CTOP Professional Designation Certification:
(R) Registration Training Modules: R-101, R-102, R-103, R-104, R-105, R-106, R-107, R-108, R-109, R-110, R-117; and
(T) Title Training Modules: T-101, T-102, T-103, T-104, T-105, T-106, T-107, T-108, T-110, T-205, T-210; and
(CSI) Customer Service Modules and Value Added – CSI
A PCC/CTOP/PDAC/PCAC Designation awarded in a calendar year will be required to acquire the applicable CE hours to maintain the designation beginning January 1 of the following calendar year.
Cybersecurity Training
Pursuant to HB 3834, “at least once a year, a local government shall identify local government employees who have access to a local government computer system or database and require those employees and elected officials of the local government to complete a cybersecurity training program certified [by the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR)].” Completed training can be used for SB 546 CE compliance and counted for deputy CEs. A list of approved cybersecurity training courses can be found here:
APPROVED COURSES. This is as of 3/3/2020.