Transfer Your Electrician License to Louisiana: Reciprocity & Endorsement (2026)

The thing to settle about Louisiana before you plan anything: there is no state journeyman or master electrician license here to transfer. Individual electricians are licensed below the state level, by a city or county, where they are licensed at all, so "reciprocity" is the wrong question — the right one is which authority governs electrical work at your jobsite and what it requires. If Louisiana licenses anything electrical statewide, it is the contractor business, a separate credential; the notes below say what applies here.

Louisiana has NO statewide journeyman or master electrician license — those are issued locally by parishes/cities (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, etc.), so there is no state journeyman credential to transfer and no state-level journeyman reciprocity. The LSLBC licenses electrical CONTRACTORS (business entities) statewide under classifications such as Electrical (major classification 5), Electrical Transmission Lines (3.2), Electrical Controls & Instrumentation (5.1), and Low-Voltage Telecommunications (5.2) for work above the statutory threshold; a contractor license is a company credential, not a journeyman license. The LSLBC operates a reciprocity program for the contractor license, but that does not create journeyman/master reciprocity. Do not treat an LSLBC contractor registration as a journeyman license.