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Give every state you bid in its own row, and date every row, because an undated register goes out of date without anyone noticing.
The working register behind *Licensing in Every State You Work. The guide tells you what to ask in each state. This is where the answers live, seeded with five states and the statute text behind them.*
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Reviewed October 2026. Licensing laws and rules change, and they vary by state. Use this page to know what to ask, then confirm with your state agency or a construction attorney before you rely on it.
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How to use this register. Copy the table below into your own spreadsheet. Five states are already filled in (state rules as of October 2026), and you add a row for every state you bid or deploy in. Before you rely on any row, read its Checked date first and its content second. Everything is on the page.
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Why this is one table instead of eleven paragraphs
The mold assessment and remediation separation rule appears in more than a dozen places across this library, worded slightly differently each time. That is exactly how a licensing fact goes bad. One copy gets corrected after a legislative session and the others do not, and a year later two pages in the same library disagree about Florida.
So this table is the copy. Anything else that needs the Texas, Florida, New York or Louisiana mold rule points here rather than restating it. When a session moves something, one row moves and every page that pointed at it is right again.
What each column has to answer
Each column below resolves to something you either wrote down or did not.
- Contractor license. The dollar or scope threshold that pulls your work under a license, and the classification that matches what you actually sell. Whether mitigation and reconstruction land on the same side of that line is set by your state's contractor licensing law, so look up yours. If they differ, record both.
- Mold. Whether the state licenses mold separately, which agency runs it, the square footage or dollar figure that triggers it, and whether one firm may both assess and remediate the same project. That last item is a yes or a no. In four states it is a no.
- Asbestos. The firm license and the worker certification, and the agency that issues each. The federal National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) asbestos rule sits underneath in every state, so the state entry is an overlay, never a replacement.
- Lead and RRP. Whether the state holds EPA authorization to run its own Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) program, or whether you certify with EPA directly. Fifteen states and one Tribe run their own as of December 2025. If yours is not on that list, you certify with EPA directly.
- Entity and local registration. Foreign-entity registration with the secretary of state, plus any city or county business license. It is not a trade license, but it is still enforceable and routinely on a commercial decision maker's vendor checklist.
- Reciprocity. Only what you hold in writing from the board. If the board has not put it in writing, leave the cell blank.
- Renewal and CE. The month each credential expires and the continuing education (CE) hours owed before it does.
- Source. The link a person on your team actually opened, rather than a search result they skimmed.
- Checked. The date that reading happened. Every other column depends on it.