TCLEOSE Advisory Board Rules
Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education March 1, 2003
§215.7. Training Provider Advisory Boards.
(a) Each licensed academy and each contractual training provider approved by the commission must establish and maintain an advisory board, as required by law. To be established, this board must have at least three members who are appointed by the sponsoring organization. To be maintained, the active, appointed membership of the board must not fall below a quorum for more than 30 days.
(b) The board may have members who are law enforcement personnel, however, one-third of the members must be public members having the same qualifications, found in the Occupations Code, Chapter 1701.252, as any commissioner who is required by law to be a member of the general public. The chief administrator or head of the sponsoring organization and the designated training coordinator may only be ex-officio, non-voting members.
(c) The board must elect a chairman and may elect other officers and set its own rules of procedure. A quorum must be present in order to conduct business.
(d) A board must meet at least once each calendar year. More frequent meetings may be called by its chairman, the training coordinator, or the person who appoints the board.
(e) A board will keep written minutes of all meetings. These minutes must be retained for at least five years and a copy forwarded to the commission upon request.
(f) Board members will be appointed by the following authority:
(1) for an agency academy, by the chief administrator as defined in §211.1 of this title (relating to definitions);
(2) for a college academy, by the dean or other person who appoints the training coordinator;
(3) for a regional academy, by the head of the council of governments or other sponsoring entity holding the academy license from names submitted by chief administrators from that area; or
(4) for a contractual training provider, by the chief administrator.
(g) A member may be removed by the appointing authority.
(h) A board is generally responsible for advising on the development of curricula and any other related duty that may be required by the commission.
(i) The board must, as specific duties:
(1) effectively discharge its responsibilities and otherwise comply with commission rules;
(2) advise on the need to study, evaluate, and identify specific training needs;
(3) advise on the determination of the types, frequency, and location of courses to be offered; and
(4) advise on the establishment of the standards for admission, prerequisites, minimum and maximum class size, attendance, and retention.
(j) A board must advise on the establishment of admission standards, and determine the order of preference between employees or prospective appointees of the sponsoring organization and other persons, if any. No person may be admitted to a training course without meeting the admission standards. The admission standards for licensing courses must be available for review by the commission upon request.
(k) A board may, when discharging its responsibilities, request that a report be made or some other information be provided to them by a training or course coordinator.
(l) The effective date of this section is March 1, 2001.