Texas electrician licensing: practice questions with the answer quoted from TDLR

Practice questions on the Texas electrician licensing path — hours, supervision, application forms and fees, the exam, renewal, continuing education and reciprocity — where the answer to every question is a word-for-word extract from the page the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation publishes it on. This is NOT National Electrical Code practice. The Texas journeyman and master examinations are open-book NEC examinations and contain no questions on Texas law or TDLR rules at all, so nothing here rehearses exam content and no NEC text is reproduced. What it rehearses is everything around the exam, which is where applications actually fail: that 7,000 hours lets you sit the journeyman exam but 8,000 is required for the licence; that Journeyman Industrial experience cannot be used to qualify for Master; that hours from a career and technology education programme count for Residential Wireman and for nothing else; that a licence expired more than three years cannot be renewed at all. Answers 'how many hours to take the Texas journeyman electrician exam', 'Texas electrician license renewal fee', 'which states does Texas have electrician reciprocity with', 'how many CE hours for a Texas journeyman electrician' and 'what NEC edition is the Texas electrician exam'. The exam moves from the 2023 NEC to the 2026 NEC on 1 September 2026 and both statements are recorded here from the pages that make them.

Texas electrician licensing quiz — Answer 25 questions on the Texas electrician licensing path, then check each one against the TDLR page that states it.

The data

Where this came from

Every record above links the page it was taken from and quotes the sentence that states it. These are the 10 sources this dataset was assembled from.

• tdlr.texas.govhttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/elecfaq.htm
• tdlr.texas.govhttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/elecce.htm
• tdlr.texas.govhttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/elecexam.htm
• test-takers.psiexams.comhttps://test-takers.psiexams.com/api/content/bulletin/1682
• tdlr.texas.govhttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/apply/individuals/journeyman-electrician.htm
• tdlr.texas.govhttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/apply/individuals/master-electrician.htm
• tdlr.texas.govhttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/apply/individuals/apprentice-electrician.htm
• tdlr.texas.govhttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/out-of-state.htm
• tdlr.texas.govhttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/apply/individuals/wireman.htm
• tdlr.texas.govhttps://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/renew/individuals/journeyman-electrician.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.
• 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 texas-electrician-licensing-practice-questions topic="Municipal licensing"

npx -y refsource lookup texas-electrician-licensing-practice-questions topic="Municipal licensing"

127 records. last verified against source 2026-08-25. due for re-check by 2026-10-24.

Licence. Facts extracted from the freely published licensing pages of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the state agency that issues these licences, and from the candidate information bulletin its examination vendor publishes and TDLR links to. Each record carries a short attributed quote and a link back to the page it came from. Licence requirements, fees and examination arrangements are public regulatory facts. No National Electrical Code text is reproduced: the NEC is NFPA's document, the examinations are open-book against a copy the candidate buys, and nothing here quotes it.