(a) DFPS may provide training for an employee if the executive director or his designee determines that the training will:
  (1) enhance the employee's ability to perform his current job duties, or enable the employee to perform prospective job duties; or
  (2) benefit both DFPS and the employee by:
    (A) providing the employee with opportunities to meet professional development requirements;
    (B) providing greater employee career planning choices; or
    (C) introducing new, more efficient technologies to DFPS.
(b) DFPS may pay for the salary, tuition and other fees, travel and living expenses, training stipend, expense of training materials, and other expenses of an instructor, student, or other participant in a training or education program.
(c) Approval to participate in a training or education program is subject to the availability of funds within the DFPS budget, and supervisory approval.

Source Note: The provisions of this §702.617 adopted to be effective March 1, 2001, 26 TexReg 1352; amended to be effective December 1, 2006, 31 TexReg 9037