Corrections and changes log

Correction · CPA / Accounting, Electrician (journeyman/master), Real Estate (salesperson/broker)

The requirements table on CPA, electrician and real estate pages labeled the hours figure "Training hours" and showed it as plain hours. For CPA it is semester hours of education for initial licensure, for electricians it is documented on-the-job experience for the journeyman license, and for real estate it is pre-license education hours; the tables now say which.

Correction · Cosmetology / Barber

States: Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia

Cosmetology pages for Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia said these states had not enacted the Cosmetology Licensure Compact, and the compact pages counted 10 member states. West Virginia's law was approved on April 1, 2026, Delaware's was signed on June 10, 2026 and Pennsylvania's on July 20, 2026, all before those pages' data was checked on July 21. The pages now list all three as enacted (13 states). For a move, endorsement is still the path in each.

Correction · Cosmetology / Barber

States: Hawaii

Hawaii cosmetology pages said there is no exam waiver or endorsement path, and the cosmetology transfer guide and its search description named Hawaii as the one state requiring a new application. Hawaii's board offers an examination waiver to applicants who passed the NIC or PSI Services exam in another jurisdiction. The pages now describe that route and its fee ($92 or $165, depending on the year you are licensed); you still apply as a new beauty operator applicant, and an out-of-state license plus one year of experience can meet the training requirement.

Correction · Cosmetology / Barber

States: Oklahoma, Montana, Virginia

Three cosmetology figures were out of date when published. Oklahoma's reciprocity fee is $180 ($90 license plus $90 processing, effective November 1, 2025), not $65. Montana's fee is $100 (effective November 22, 2025), not $80. Virginia's pages said applicants with under 80% of the required hours were not eligible; Virginia's rule lets an applicant with under 800 hours document three years of licensed experience instead.

Correction · Nursing (RN)

States: Florida

Florida nursing pages described endorsement requirements from a board document that reflects methods since repealed from section 464.009, Florida Statutes. They now follow section 456.0145 and the board's current page: a passing national exam score, verification from every state where you have held a license, at least two years of active practice in the four years before applying, no discipline in the past five years and no National Practitioner Data Bank report (with stated exceptions). By law the license issues within 7 days after all documents are received.

Correction · Nursing (RN)

States: Minnesota, New York, Missouri, Utah

Minnesota nursing pages said every out-of-state RN must endorse; nurses who live in Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota or Wisconsin and are licensed there have a border-state privilege, with conditions. New York pages offered the $35 limited permit, which is only for applicants who have never taken the NCLEX-RN. Missouri pages said its six-month temporary permit is issued automatically; the board may issue it if you are otherwise eligible. The nursing transfer guide named Utah ($60) as the lowest endorsement fee; Illinois and Indiana charge $50, and the guide's fee and time ranges are now computed from the state records.

Correction · CPA / Accounting

States: Connecticut, Georgia, Wisconsin

CPA pages said Connecticut, Georgia and Wisconsin issue a reciprocal license to any CPA in good standing. Each board checks applicants against its own rules: Connecticut's statute (C.G.S. 20-281d(d)) asks applicants with fewer than five years of the last ten in practice to document Connecticut education, experience and an ethics course; Georgia requires its own education standard; Wisconsin requires substantial equivalence to its initial-licensure requirements and its Statutes and Rules Examination. Moves into these states now show licensure by endorsement, and the CPA transfer guide counts 46 of 51 boards, not 49.

Correction · CPA / Accounting

States: New Hampshire, Alaska, Nevada, Oklahoma

New Hampshire has required 150 semester hours of reciprocity applicants since July 1, 2014 (Ac 304.03), not 120. Alaska's 150-hour rule was repealed effective January 1, 2026; a baccalaureate with an accounting concentration plus two years of experience now applies, so no hour figure is shown. Nevada's reciprocity fee is $240 per the board's packet, not $100. Oklahoma no longer applies a blanket substantial-equivalency rule; applicants qualify under one of the options on its Form R008. The New Hampshire state-to-state CPA pages stay online with the corrected comparison.

Correction · Contractor (GC/electrical/plumbing/HVAC)

States: Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey

Contractor pages misstated three states' transfer rules. Connecticut was shown with reciprocity for some trades; its Department of Consumer Protection says it has no reciprocal agreements and every applicant takes the exam. Michigan was shown with an endorsement route for electricians; LARA says Michigan holds no reciprocity with any other state, so out-of-state electricians pass the Michigan exam. New Jersey was shown with no reciprocity of any kind; its electrical board can license an out-of-state electrical contractor without exam, case by case (N.J.A.C. 13:31-2.9), while its plumbing and HVACR boards grant no reciprocity.

Correction · Contractor (GC/electrical/plumbing/HVAC)

States: Alabama, Maryland, California

Alabama's commercial general-contractor list named North Carolina. The board's own sources conflict: its reciprocity page lists North Carolina, but its application form limits North Carolina to licensees of the North Carolina electrical board, so the site no longer lists North Carolina for general contractors; confirm with the board. Maryland's pages said every board requires a license obtained by exam; only the electrical board does. California's bond for a qualifying individual has been $25,000 since January 1, 2023, not $12,500.

Correction · Counseling (LPC / LMHC)

States: Maine, South Dakota

Maine counseling pages said the board did not consider an Ohio license comparable; the board voted Ohio equivalent to the Maine LCPC on May 18, 2026. South Dakota pages accepted the NCE, CRC or NCMHCE for LPC-MH endorsement; the rule (ARSD 20:73:01:07(3)) requires a passing NCMHCE, and the supervision-hours figure was corrected from 100 to 200.

Correction · Occupational Therapy (OT/OTA)

States: Tennessee, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Texas

Tennessee's occupational therapy application fee is $135 ($125 plus $10 under Rule 1150-02-.06(4), effective June 21, 2026), not $110. New Mexico's three-year fee waiver applies to service members and veterans only, not to spouses or dependents. Rhode Island licenses expire March 31 of even-numbered years, not June 30. Texas military application fees may be waived on request rather than being waived automatically.

Correction · CPA / Accounting

States: Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah

CPA pages said nine more states issue a reciprocal license to any CPA in good standing. In each, a CPA without enough recent practice (for example four of the last ten years in New York, Massachusetts and Michigan, or five years licensed in Pennsylvania) must meet the state's own education or experience requirements, the same rule that already applied to California and Connecticut. Moves into these states now show licensure by endorsement, and the CPA transfer guide counts 37 of 51 boards, not 46. The New Hampshire requirement now reads as its rule does: 150 semester hours for reciprocity applicants since July 1, 2014, with NASBA's exception only for applicants who passed the exam and had two years of experience before that date.

Correction · Plumber (journeyman/master)

States: New York

The New York plumbing page gave New York City's Master Plumber written-exam fee as $525. The NYC Department of Buildings raised its exam fees effective May 29, 2024: the written exam is $585 and the separately applied-for practical exam is $530, both paid through DOB NOW, followed by a $500 background-investigation fee and a $200 license fee. New York still has no statewide plumber license.

Correction · Nursing (RN)

Nursing pages said the APRN Compact for advanced practice nurses was enacted in five states, including Wyoming. NCSBN counts four (Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah); Wyoming's 2016 law is an earlier version of the compact with a ten-state threshold and is not counted. The compact needs seven states before it can be implemented and is not operational in 2026.

Correction · Social Work (LCSW / LICSW)

States: Louisiana

The Louisiana social work page said any applicant with a complete endorsement file could get a 90-day temporary practice permit. Under LAC 46:XXV.305.E and §309, the Board's temporary permit is only for military-trained applicants and spouses of military personnel; the rules provide no temporary permit for other endorsement applicants.

Correction · Electrician (journeyman/master)

States: Wyoming

The Wyoming electrician page listed Utah as a master electrician reciprocity partner. The Wyoming Department of Fire Prevention and Electrical Safety names only Idaho, Iowa and South Dakota for master licenses; Utah is a journeyman partner only. The journeyman partner list (17 states, including Utah) was correct and is unchanged.

Correction · Pharmacy (pharmacist)

States: California

Pharmacy pages said California does not participate in NABP's Electronic Licensure Transfer Program and that 50 of 51 jurisdictions accept an eLTP transfer. NABP lists California in the program, and the California Board directs out-of-state pharmacists to file an NABP licensure transfer application with its own examination-for-licensure application. California still issues no license by transfer: applicants must pass the CPJE and meet its practice-experience rule. The pages now say 50 of 51 jurisdictions issue a license on the transfer, and California-origin pages note that most boards accept a California license as the basis of transfer only if it was issued after January 1, 2004.

Correction · Pharmacy (pharmacist)

States: Alabama

The Alabama pharmacy page gave a $300 reciprocity fee. The Board charges every new pharmacist, including reciprocity applicants, a $125 license fee plus the $300 statutory exam fee, $425 in total (Admin Code 680-X-2-.34, effective June 14, 2026). The page also now says that under Board Policy 24-001 the exam-based license need not be currently active, and that NABP's transfer chart still shows Alabama's earlier rule requiring applicants to keep that license.

Correction · Electrician (journeyman/master), Plumber (journeyman/master), Contractor (GC/electrical/plumbing/HVAC)

Added a "no state license to transfer" outcome. In states that issue no statewide license for a trade, where licensing is local or only a registration is required, pages had told readers to apply as a new applicant for a state license that does not exist. They now say there is no state license to transfer and describe the local or registration requirement the record names.

Correction · Contractor (GC/electrical/plumbing/HVAC), Plumber (journeyman/master), Electrician (journeyman/master), Psychology (licensed psychologist)

States: North Carolina, New Mexico, Virginia, Nevada, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Washington

Lists that are not license reciprocity are no longer presented as reciprocity agreements: acceptance of the NASCLA exam (North Carolina and New Mexico contractors), waivers of a single exam (Virginia contractors; North Carolina and South Carolina plumbers), and lists of states whose licenses the board deems equivalent (Nevada contractors, New Hampshire plumbers and electricians, Washington psychologists). Each is now described as what it is.

Correction · site-wide

Retracted the statistic "17.5% of transfers are automatic". It counted compact privileges (physical therapy, occupational therapy, counseling), which are not licenses and do not follow a move, and states that honor every other state's license, which still require an application. The statistics now count each move by the route a relocating licensee actually takes, and the downloadable data and summary card were corrected to match.

Correction · Teaching (K-12)

Teaching pages no longer say every state issues a provisional certificate first. The first credential each state issues to a teacher with a valid out-of-state certificate (a standard certificate, a named bridge credential, or individual review) is now taken from that state's own record, and only that state's own name for a bridge credential is used.

Correction · Contractor (GC/electrical/plumbing/HVAC)

States: Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Oregon, Arkansas, Wisconsin, New Jersey

General-contractor pages now read each state's general-contractor rules instead of facts that belong to a trade board. Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Oregon offer general contractors no reciprocity, and Arkansas's agreement covers only the five states it lists, so those pages no longer suggest a general contractor can avoid a new application. Wisconsin and New Jersey are now shown as registration states.

Correction · Electrician (journeyman/master)

The electrician overview called its count of states that publish a journeyman partner list a count of NERA member boards. NERA membership is not something the data records, so no member count is published; the overview now says how many states publish a partner list.

Correction · Electrician (journeyman/master), Plumber (journeyman/master), Contractor (GC/electrical/plumbing/HVAC), Cosmetology / Barber, Psychology (licensed psychologist), Counseling (LPC / LMHC)

Pages for moving under a reciprocity agreement said you typically skip the national exam. That holds for most real estate agreements, which waive the national exam portion, but not for the other professions: electrical and plumbing agreements waive the state journeyman exam, contractor agreements usually waive a trade exam while business and law exams remain, and psychology and counseling exam scores carry over on every route, agreement or not. The pages now name the exam an agreement waives only where the state's record says it is waived.

Correction · Real Estate (salesperson/broker), Contractor (GC/electrical/plumbing/HVAC)

The glossary definition of reciprocity named Alabama, Colorado, Maine, Mississippi and Virginia as the real estate states that honor every other state's license. The real estate records list seven such states (Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Maine, Ohio, Virginia and Washington), and Mississippi is not one of them. The same entry said Tennessee's contractor board waives its trade exam for nine named states, where the record lists seven (commercial building), and used Georgia and Alabama as an example of a one-way agreement although Alabama honors every state. The list and the count are now taken from the records, and the example uses Georgia and California.

Correction · Physical Therapy (PT/PTA), Occupational Therapy (OT/OTA), Counseling (LPC / LMHC), Nursing (RN)

Page descriptions for physical therapy, occupational therapy and counseling counted compact member states as a transfer route (for example "38 are PT Compact members and 13 license by endorsement"), and the physical therapy overview said "the other 13 require endorsement", which implied the 38 do not. These compacts grant a privilege to practice, which is not a license; a therapist or counselor who moves still applies for a license, by endorsement in every state for physical and occupational therapy and in 49 of 51 for counseling. The nursing overview's "the other 11 admit you by endorsement" likewise implied a nurse moving between compact states needs nothing; changing home state, or arriving from a non-compact state, means endorsement. The descriptions now count every state by its licensing route and list compact privileges separately.

Correction · Contractor (GC/electrical/plumbing/HVAC)

States: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Contractor page descriptions for these 21 states said the state "has trade-specific reciprocity with" a number of states without naming the trade. In each of them every agreement covers electrical, plumbing or HVAC work and none covers general contractors (Alaska's 13, for example, are all electrical), so a general contractor could read the figure as covering them. The descriptions now name the trades the agreements cover.

Correction · Contractor (GC/electrical/plumbing/HVAC)

The contractor overview said 15 states (elsewhere "about 15") accept the NASCLA commercial building exam. That count included the District of Columbia, which is not a state, and Louisiana, whose board does not separately publish a NASCLA-acceptance statement. The figure is now counted from a field set from each state record's own text: 12 states plus DC at the time of the fix.

Correction · Engineering (PE)

States: Florida

Engineering pages said every US board licenses an out-of-state Professional Engineer "by comity". Florida's board licenses by endorsement and says it does not license by reciprocity or comity. Florida's pages now use its own term, and the overview says "comity or endorsement".

Correction · Teaching (K-12)

States: Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada

Teaching pages for Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri and Nevada, and the pages for moving into them, were labelled "Full reciprocity". Each of these states' records says it is not an automatic exchange: the state issues its own certificate to a teacher holding a comparable certificate, usually without its tests. The pages now say "Streamlined" and state that condition.

Correction · Nursing (RN)

Nursing pages now say the data covers registered nurses (RN); titles and headings read "Nursing (RN)".

Correction · Psychology (licensed psychologist)

Psychology pages labelled the route for PSYPACT member states "multistate license honored". PSYPACT authorizes telepsychology and limited temporary in-person practice; it does not move a license to a new state. The labels now match the verdicts, which were already correct.

Correction · Physical Therapy (PT/PTA)

Physical therapy answers described the PT Compact as a multistate license that continues through a move. A compact privilege is not a license and is not a license transfer; the answers and steps now say to obtain a compact privilege, and say what it is.

Correction · Nursing (RN)

The nursing overview and state-page answers said a nurse relocating within the Nurse Licensure Compact needs no new application. A nurse who changes primary state of residence applies for a license in the new home state; that statement was removed.

Correction · Cosmetology / Barber

States: Hawaii

Pages for moving a cosmetology license into Hawaii, a state with no endorsement route, told readers to submit an endorsement application. The steps now follow the route that actually applies while the Cosmetology Licensure Compact is not yet issuing licenses.

Correction · Cosmetology / Barber

States: Hawaii

The cosmetology overview said every state admits cosmetologists by endorsement. Hawaii does not offer endorsement, as its own page already said; the overview's answer and its search description were corrected.