Methodology

Everything about how these 40,277 records get here, so you can decide how much to trust them.

Source

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation publishes its complete licensee file as comma-delimited public record, refreshed daily. We download the air conditioning contractor and master electrician files directly from TDLR. No scraping of the search interface, no third-party data broker.

Refresh

Ingest runs daily. We have been tracking continuously since August 16, 2026. Each run records which licenses appeared, which are still present, and which have dropped out of the file entirely, which is how a revocation or surrender becomes visible.

How status is computed

A license is expired when its published expiration date is earlier than today. It is expiring soon within 60 days of that date, and active otherwise. We apply no grace period, so a licensee who renewed this morning may still read as expired until tomorrow's file.

Known limitations

• TDLR redacts street address and phone number in the public file. We show county only, because that is all the source contains.
• We cover the trades TDLR licenses at state level. Plumbers are licensed by a separate Texas board and are not in this data yet.
• Licensing is not insurance. A current license says nothing about liability coverage.
• Individual licensee pages are excluded from search engines by default while the dataset is young.