Electrician licence reciprocity by state: which states accept which licences, in which direction, on what conditions
Which states will licence an electrician on the strength of another state's licence, per licensing board, with the direction and the conditions kept — the two things every aggregator flattens. Reciprocity agreements are directional and class-specific: Texas accepts journeyman licences from ten states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wyoming) but master licences from a different seven, and requires the licence held at least one year and gained by that state's own exam. The data churns: Texas added Arkansas (Dec 2025), Iowa (Feb 2026), Alabama (Mar 2026) and Ohio (Jun 2026) under a 2025 state law directing agencies to pursue agreements — every content-mill list found predates at least one of these. Answers 'which states does Texas have journeyman electrician reciprocity with?', 'can I use my Idaho journeyman licence in Oregon?', 'does my master electrician licence transfer to another state?'
The data
| Licence-issuing state accepted | Accepting state | Licence class | Conditions | Application fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Texas | Master Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal statewide examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 12,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. Held a journeyman electrician license for at least 2 years*. *1 year for Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio | $45.00 |
| Alaska | Texas | Journeyman Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal state’s examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 8,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. | $30.00 |
| Arkansas | Texas | Journeyman Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal state’s examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 8,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. | $30.00 |
| Arkansas (master electrician) | Texas | Master Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal statewide examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 12,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. Held a journeyman electrician license for at least 2 years*. *1 year for Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio | $45.00 |
| Idaho | Texas | Journeyman Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal state’s examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 8,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. | $30.00 |
| Iowa | Texas | Journeyman Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal state’s examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 8,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. | $30.00 |
| Iowa (Class A master electrician) | Texas | Master Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal statewide examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 12,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. Held a journeyman electrician license for at least 2 years*. *1 year for Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio | $45.00 |
| Louisiana (state contractor’s license) | Texas | Master Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal statewide examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 12,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. Held a journeyman electrician license for at least 2 years*. *1 year for Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio | $45.00 |
| Nebraska | Texas | Master Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal statewide examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 12,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. Held a journeyman electrician license for at least 2 years*. *1 year for Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio | $45.00 |
| New Mexico | Texas | Journeyman Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal state’s examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 8,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. | $30.00 |
| North Carolina (master electrician or unlimited electrical contractor) | Texas | Master Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal statewide examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 12,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. Held a journeyman electrician license for at least 2 years*. *1 year for Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio | $45.00 |
| Ohio | Texas | Master Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal statewide examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 12,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. Held a journeyman electrician license for at least 2 years*. *1 year for Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio | $45.00 |
| Oklahoma | Texas | Journeyman Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal state’s examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 8,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. | $30.00 |
| South Dakota | Texas | Journeyman Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal state’s examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 8,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. | $30.00 |
| Wyoming | Texas | Journeyman Electrician | Taken and passed the reciprocal state’s examination Held the reciprocal license for at least one year Have at least 8,000 hours under the supervision of a master electrician. | $30.00 |
Where this came from
Every record above links the page it was taken from and quotes the sentence that states it. These are the 1 source this dataset was assembled from.
- tdlr.texas.govhttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/out-of-state.htm
Machine-readable
- data.jsonThe whole dataset — every record with its source URL and source quote.
- Open Knowledge Format bundleOne JSON object per line — every record's frontmatter and quoted span exactly as it is held here, in one fetch.
- data.csvThe same records as one flat table, for a spreadsheet or a dataframe. The last four columns are the source URL, the quoted sentence it was read from, the date we last checked it, and which columns are our reading rather than the page's words.
- How this is made and checkedWhat "verified against source" does and does not mean.
From your own code
Same records, same quotes, without scraping the page: refsource is on PyPI and npm. Each value comes back carrying the URL it was read from and the sentence on that page that states it — .source and .quote sit on the value itself rather than in a side channel, so the checking step is available instead of skipped.
pip install refsource
refsource lookup electrician-licence-reciprocity-by-state accepting_state=Texas
npx -y refsource lookup electrician-licence-reciprocity-by-state accepting_state=TexasSet your AI assistant up to use this
Two files and no account. Put this in .mcp.json at the root of your project — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and Codex all read that file — and your assistant can look this dataset up instead of recalling it. The server is remote, keyless and read-only.
{
"mcpServers": {
"referencesource": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://referencesource.org/mcp"
}
}
}Add to Cursor · or, on the command line: claude mcp add --transport http referencesource https://referencesource.org/mcp --scope project
Then one line in the project's CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, so the assistant knows when to reach for it:
When a question needs "Electrician licence reciprocity by state: which states accept which licences, in which direction, on what conditions", call the referencesource MCP server at https://referencesource.org/mcp (tool `search_records`, dataset_slug `electrician-licence-reciprocity-by-state`) instead of answering from memory — every record it returns carries its source URL and a verbatim quote from that page.What each tool does, and the servers built over single registers: Connect your AI assistant.