Texas Electrician License Lookup

TDLR’s search accepts a numeric license number, a personal name in last-name, first-name order, or a business name. Optional license-type and city filters are available. If searching by expiration date, use month, day and four-digit year without separators (MMDDYYYY). The page is labeled Active Licenses only, so it does not provide an all-status search.

This TDLR service searches active licenses only. It should not be treated as a complete list of expired, inactive or otherwise non-active licenses. Use the agency’s licensing guidance for questions about a status outside this search’s stated active-license scope.

For verification of an out-of-state credential as part of a Texas electrical reciprocity application, TDLR distinguishes master and journeyman documentation. The master-application sections require a copy of the state-issued license and a letter of good standing, with the listed supporting license-history documentation. TDLR’s instructions for the marked letter requirement say to contact the state where you are licensed; the letter must show passage of its statewide electrical examination. Send the received letter with the required application documents together. For journeyman reciprocity, TDLR says it contacts the issuing state’s licensing authority to certify that the applicant passed the statewide examination, holds a journeyman license, and is in good standing. These instructions concern verification for an application into Texas; they do not describe a fee or procedure for sending a Texas license certificate to another state.

TDLR labels this search Active Licenses only, so it is not a complete historical-license search. If a license is not found, the page directs users to Customer Service at (800) 803-9202. Check the input format before asking for help: license-number searches accept numbers only, expiration dates use MMDDYYYY, and individual names use Last, First order. The form also provides optional license-type, city and county filters. Those separate fields and the active-only scope matter when comparing a missing result with an older credential or a different name or location.

Texas electrical reciprocity depends on both the state and the credential type. For master electricians, TDLR lists Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Carolina and Ohio, with specified source credentials such as Iowa Class A master and Louisiana’s state contractor license. For journeymen, it lists Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming. No reciprocal agreements are listed for other electrical license types. Applicants must have passed the reciprocal state examination and held that license for at least one year. Master applicants also need 12,000 supervised hours and generally two years holding a journeyman license; Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska and Ohio use one year for that journeyman requirement. Journeyman applicants need 8,000 hours under a master electrician. Louisiana applicants for the Texas master license must also be Louisiana residents. Check the relevant state and credential section before applying: a license issued in a listed state does not remove the documented examination, experience or license-history conditions.