{"description":"Dated, sourced, human-reviewed changes to US occupational licensing requirements. Each event states what changed, the rule before and after, what kind of date it carries, who it affects, and the official source.","event_count":58,"events":[{"affected_pages":[{"id":"nh-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/nh-hvac/"}],"after":"Mec 604.02 begins 'Pursuant to RSA 310:12' and its sanction list ends with 'Assessing administrative fines which shall not exceed $3,000 per offense, or, in the case of continuing offenses, $300 for each day that the violation continues, whichever is greater'; the five-year ceiling on suspension is gone. Mec 807.01 now reads in full: 'The application and licensing fees shall be the fees required in Plc 1002.25.' The document also carries the line 'Withdraw the proposed readoption with amendment of Mec 703.02', which is the application rule for the voluntary certification of heating installers.","before":"Mec 604.02 began 'Pursuant to RSA 153:32, III' - a statute repealed in 2023 - and listed a reprimand, probation, 'Suspension, limitation, or restriction of license for a period of up to 5 years', revocation and required continuing education, with no monetary penalty. Mec 807.01 set the voluntary water treatment fees itself: $30.00 for a trainee, $60.00 for a two-year technician certification, $60.00 to renew, all non-refundable.","credential":"New Hampshire fuel gas fitting and plumbing licenses, apprentice and trainee registrations, and mechanical business entity licenses issued through the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification's Mechanical Safety and Licensing Board; separately, the board's voluntary water treatment technician certification","date":"2026-10-19","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"New Hampshire's mechanical board gets power to fine licensees up to $3,000 an offense from October 19, 2026 - and the heating-installer piece of the same rulemaking was withdrawn","id":"nh-2026-10-19-mec-600-readopted-fines-and-water-treatment-fees","instrument":"New Hampshire adopted rule #14673 (Notice NN 2025-241), readopting Mec 601, 602, 603.01, 603.02, 604.02 through 604.04, 605.01 through 605.03, and 606 through 610, and readopting with amendment Mec 807","jurisdiction":"New Hampshire","occupations":["hvac","plumber"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"rule","note":"The state's published chapter text for Mec 600 and Mec 800, read on 2026-09-02, still carries the earlier versions: Mec 604.02 sourced '#12385, eff 9-20-17' opening 'Pursuant to RSA 153:32, III' with no fine, and Mec 807.01 sourced '#13632, eff 7-19-23' naming $30.00 and $60.00. Those are the texts the adopted document was compared against, line by line. The chapter headings on the same site establish what each chapter is: Mec 700 is 'VOLUNTARY CERTIFICATION OF HEATING INSTALLERS AND HEATING EQUIPMENT SERVICE PERSONNEL' and Mec 800 is 'VOLUNTARY WATER TREATMENT CERTIFICATION'."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed. nh-hvac cites none of Mec 600, 700 or 800, and its $50 oil-heating fee rests on Mec 705.01, which the readoption did not touch. The heating-installer amendment (Mec 703.02) was withdrawn; the operative change is Mec 604.02's new statutory reference and fine schedule, effective October 19, 2026.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"New Hampshire Office of Legislative Services, Administrative Rules","url":"https://gc.nh.gov/rules/adoptions/adoptions/Effective%20Adopted%20Rules%20as%20Filed%20-%20Awaiting%20Certification/14673%20%28NN%202025-241%29%20Professional%20Standards%2C%20Applications%20for%20the%20Voluntary%20Certification%20of%20Heating%20Installers%20Mec%20600%20various%2C%20Mec%20807%20eff%2010-19-26.pdf"},"summary":"Adopted rule #14673 readopts the Mechanical Safety and Licensing Board's professional-standards rules, Mec 601 through Mec 610, and the fees part of its voluntary water treatment certification, Mec 807. The readopted sanctions rule cites RSA 310:12 in place of the repealed RSA 153:32, III and adds administrative fines of up to $3,000 per offense or $300 for each day a violation continues. Mec 807 stops naming dollar amounts for water treatment certification and points to the consolidated licensing fee table instead. The proposed readoption of Mec 703.02, in the voluntary heating-installer chapter, was withdrawn, so nothing about heating-installer certification changed.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#nh-2026-10-19-mec-600-readopted-fines-and-water-treatment-fees","who_is_affected":"Licensed New Hampshire fuel gas fitters, plumbers, plumbing apprentices, fuel gas trainees, certified oil heating technicians and mechanical business entities, who from October 19, 2026 face administrative fines as an available sanction alongside reprimand, probation, suspension and revocation. Water treatment technicians and trainees should read their certification fee off the consolidated licensing fee table rather than off Mec 807. Anyone pursuing the voluntary heating-installer certification is unaffected: that chapter's application rule was withdrawn from this rulemaking and its $50 two-year fee in Mec 705.01 is unchanged."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"sd-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/sd-hvac/"}],"after":"The same page reads: 'The Plumbing Commission is in the process of adopting rules. The effect of the proposed rules will be to align notification requirements to the functionality of a new database, align rules with the intention of SDCL 36-25, and clean up language or clarify existing rules. The Public Hearing will be held on October 2, 2026 via Microsoft Teams.' The Commission's notice of hearing lists eleven rule numbers and gives its reason: 'ambiguity exists in the currently adopted rule scheme. Rulemaking is necessary to amend the training and examination requirements. Additionally, with a shift to a new database, rules that refer to mailing and issuance of physical documents will become obsolete and inapplicable.'","before":"The Commission's Laws and Rules page, in our record of it dated July 27, 2026, announced a finished job: 'The Plumbing Commission has completed the adoption process for the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code. The adopted amendments were served to the Secretary of State's office on Oct. 8, 2025. Rules are provisionally effective on the 20th day after filing with the Office of the Secretary of State.'","credential":"Every license the South Dakota Plumbing Commission issues under SDCL chapter 36-25, including the appliance installer, appliance installer apprentice and appliance contractor licenses - the nearest thing South Dakota has to a state HVAC credential, since the state licenses no HVAC, mechanical or refrigeration trade of its own","date":"2026-10-02","date_kind":"proposed","date_kind_label":"proposed — not in force","detected":"2026-09-08","detected_at":"https://dlr.sd.gov/plumbing/laws.aspx","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"South Dakota's Plumbing Commission has proposed rewriting how its licenses are examined, renewed and credited for experience - hearing October 2, 2026, comments close September 29","id":"sd-2026-10-02-plumbing-commission-proposed-rules","instrument":"Proposed adoption and amendment of Administrative Rules of South Dakota 20:53:02:08, 20:53:02:09, 20:53:02:10, 20:53:02:20, 20:53:02:22, 20:53:02:24, 20:53:10:02, 20:53:10:04, 20:53:13, 20:53:13:01 and 20:54:02:01, noticed by the South Dakota Plumbing Commission under SDCL chapter 1-26","jurisdiction":"South Dakota","occupations":["hvac"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"official-text","note":"The rules in force were read from the South Dakota Legislature's publication of Administrative Rules articles 20:53 and 20:54 on September 9, 2026, which fixes the before-and-after exactly. 20:53:02:20 in force is titled 'License expiration' and waives the examination where a reinstatement application arrives 'within one year of expiration'; the proposal retitles it 'License renewal after expiration' and makes that window six months. 20:53:02:24 does not exist in force - the chapter runs 20:53:02:01 to 20:53:02:23 - so the licensed-experience rule is new, as is the whole of chapter 20:53:13. 20:54:02:01 in force already adopts 'the Uniform Plumbing Code, 2024 edition', with a source line ending '52 SDR 42, effective October 28, 2025', which is the twentieth day after the October 8, 2025 filing the Commission's earlier notice described."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-10-A010"],"on":"2026-09-10","outcome":"Our source label for the Commission's Laws and Rules page said it carried the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code adoption notice; the Commission has replaced that notice with a pending-rulemaking notice, so the label described something a reader clicking through would no longer find. The label now says the page carries the Commission's notice of a rulemaking with a public hearing on October 2, 2026, having replaced the 2024 code adoption notice it carried through July 2026. Verified live on 2026-09-10: dlr.sd.gov/plumbing/laws.aspx returned returned the page with the pending-rulemaking sentence present verbatim ('The Public Hearing will be held on October 2, 2026 via Microsoft Teams') and zero occurrences of the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code adoption notice, while SDCL 36-25, ARSD 20:53 and ARSD 20:54 are all still cited on the page. The separate ARSD 20:54 label stating that the Commission completed adoption of the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code was deliberately left in place - it remains true - and our own stored 2026-07-27 revision was re-read to confirm the wording the Commission removed.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation, State Plumbing Commission","url":"https://dlr.sd.gov/plumbing/commission_meetings.aspx"},"summary":"The South Dakota Plumbing Commission has noticed a public hearing for October 2, 2026 on eleven administrative rules covering examinations, license renewal after expiration, qualifying experience, plumbing installation certificates and the state plumbing code. The Commission's own reason is that 'ambiguity exists in the currently adopted rule scheme. Rulemaking is necessary to amend the training and examination requirements.' Written comments close at 10:00 a.m. Central Time on September 29, 2026. Nothing is law yet.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#sd-2026-10-02-plumbing-commission-proposed-rules","who_is_affected":"Anyone holding or seeking a South Dakota Plumbing Commission license, including the appliance installer and appliance contractor licenses an HVAC worker may need when connecting gas- or electricity-powered equipment to water and waste systems. Three of the proposals would change what a licensee actually does. The window in which a lapsed license can be renewed without sitting the examination again would shrink from one year to six months. A new rule would require that experience offered on a license application be LICENSED experience, would let an applicant holding a substantially equivalent active license in another state claim experience credit on proof, and would oblige the licensee who supervised the work to complete the experience affidavit on request. And the Commission would stop preparing, scheduling and grading examinations itself, with notice of an in-person examination coming by electronic correspondence from 'the commission-approved examination vendor' instead of by first class mail. None of this is law yet: comments close at 10:00 a.m. Central Time on September 29, 2026, and the hearing is on October 2, 2026 by video conference. The 2024 edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code is unaffected - it remains the adopted state plumbing code, effective October 28, 2025."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"nm-alcohol-server","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/alcohol-server/nm-alcohol-server/"}],"after":"A proposed amendment would lower that age to 18. In the division's own words the change 'lowers the age at which an individual may seek a server permit to conform with the 2021 amendment of NMSA 1978, 60-7B-11 (2021) which lowered the age for restaurant employees to sell or serve alcoholic beverages to 18'. Two other rules are noticed in the same hearing: 15.10.32 NMAC drops a military-installation locational restriction repealed in 2021, and 5.11.20 NMAC repeals the Class A county delivery restrictions to conform to the 2023 amendment of NMSA 1978, 60-6A-37. The hearing is October 1, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. at 2550 Cerrillo Road, Santa Fe (Teams option available); written comments are accepted from August 26 through September 30, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. Nothing is in force: until the division adopts the amendment, the 19-year definition stands.","before":"15.10.2 NMAC defines 'applicant' as, among other things, 'an individual 19 years of age or older seeking a server permit under the Alcohol Server Education Article of the Liquor Act'. That remains the rule in force.","credential":"New Mexico alcohol server permit (Alcohol Server Education Article, NMSA 1978 Sections 60-6E-1 to 60-6E-12)","date":"2026-10-01","date_kind":"proposed","date_kind_label":"proposed — not in force","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"New Mexico's liquor regulator proposes lowering the age to apply for an alcohol server permit from 19 to 18 - hearing October 1, 2026, written comments due by September 30","id":"nm-2026-08-25-abc-proposed-server-permit-age-18","instrument":"15.10.2 NMAC, Alcoholic Beverages General Provisions - Definitions (proposed amendment; also noticed: 15.10.32 NMAC and 5.11.20 NMAC)","jurisdiction":"New Mexico","occupations":["alcohol-server"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"official-text","note":"The compiled 15.10.2 NMAC in force at srca.nm.gov still defines 'applicant' as 'an individual 19 years of age or older seeking a server permit', with a last amendment date of 9/28/2021, confirming the pre-proposal state and the gap the amendment is meant to close."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed. nm-alcohol-server states the RLD's operating rule (21 and over generally; 18-20 in restaurants serving meals, no bartending), which is what the proposal would conform 15.10.2 NMAC to; the page does not cite 15.10.2. Re-read after the October 1, 2026 hearing.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"New Mexico Commission of Public Records, Administrative Law Division (New Mexico Register, Volume XXXVII, Issue 16, August 25, 2026), for the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, Alcoholic Beverage Control Division","url":"https://prod-rf-lambda.rtssaas.com/PublicFiles/d89c47bd0d70402dba89b03a22bda6d1/981a1607-08a2-4424-9465-47e7c297f5b4/RLD-ABCnotice_xxxvii16.html"},"summary":"The New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department's Alcoholic Beverage Control Division published a notice of public rulemaking hearing in the New Mexico Register on August 25, 2026. It proposes amending 15.10.2 NMAC (Definitions), whose 'applicant' definition currently reads 'an individual 19 years of age or older seeking a server permit', to lower that age to 18 and conform the rule to NMSA 1978, Section 60-7B-11 as amended in 2021, which lowered to 18 the age at which restaurant employees may sell or serve alcoholic beverages. The hearing is set for October 1, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. in Santa Fe; written comments are accepted from August 26 through September 30, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. Nothing is adopted.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#nm-2026-08-25-abc-proposed-server-permit-age-18","who_is_affected":"Prospective New Mexico alcohol servers aged 18, and the restaurants that employ them, as advance notice only. The operating age rules the division publishes for servers do not change under this proposal: today and after adoption, only individuals 21 and older may sell or serve alcohol in bars, lounges, convenience, grocery and package stores, and 18-to-20-year-olds may hold a permit to sell or serve alcohol in a full-service restaurant with meals but may not be a bartender."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"nm-food-handler","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/food-handler/nm-food-handler/"}],"after":"From October 1, 2026 the late fee is $175.00, the re-inspection fee is $500.00, the home-based food processing permit fee is deleted and 7.6.2.15 NMAC is repealed. The amendment also adds that anyone who violates NMAC Title 7, Chapter 6 is subject to administrative compliance costs in addition to civil penalties under Section 25-1-12 NMSA 1978. The food handler card provisions at 7.6.2.8 NMAC Subsection D(1) - the 30-day new-hire window, the three-year card validity, the employer-approved-program alternative and exemptions (i) through (vii) - are reprinted without change.","before":"Under the rule in force since December 1, 2018, a food establishment that failed to renew its permit by the expiration date paid a $25 late fee, a re-inspection carried a $100 penalty fee, a home-based food processing operation paid a $100 permit fee, and 7.6.2.15 NMAC set out a separate home-based food processing regime.","credential":"New Mexico food handler card (7.6.2.8 NMAC Subsection D(1) / food code 2-104.11) and the food establishment permit it sits inside","date":"2026-10-01","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"New Mexico's food code amendment takes effect October 1, 2026 - permit late fee rises from $25 to $175, the re-inspection fee from $100 to $500, and the home-based food processing rule is repealed","id":"nm-2026-10-01-food-code-permit-fees-and-home-based-repeal","instrument":"7.6.2 NMAC, Food Handling - Food Service and Food Processing, Sections 8, 11 and 15, as amended (New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board, docket EIB 25-32(R))","jurisdiction":"New Mexico","occupations":["food-handler"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"official-text","note":"The compiled rule in force at srca.nm.gov (effective December 1, 2018) still reads '$25 late fee' and 're-inspection penalty fee of $100' and still contains 7.6.2.15 NMAC, confirming the pre-amendment state. The adopted amendment prints the new figures as inserted text and the old ones in brackets."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed. nm-food-handler already carries the amendment as a dated forward note in the right tense ('takes effect October 1, 2026') and correctly states that the food handler card provisions are substantively unchanged; the fee changes are establishment-permit fees the page does not state. The note flips to past tense on October 1.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"New Mexico Commission of Public Records, Administrative Law Division (New Mexico Register, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12, June 23, 2026), for the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board","url":"https://prod-rf-lambda.rtssaas.com/PublicFiles/d89c47bd0d70402dba89b03a22bda6d1/393d7746-5e4e-4349-8740-ab9cbde89d25/7.6.2amend.html"},"summary":"The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board adopted an amendment to Sections 8, 11 and 15 of 7.6.2 NMAC, published in the New Mexico Register on June 23, 2026 and effective October 1, 2026. It raises the late fee added to an unrenewed food establishment permit from $25 to $175, raises the re-inspection fee from $100 to $500, deletes the $100 home-based food processing permit fee, repeals 7.6.2.15 NMAC (Home-Based Food Processing) and adopts subparts A, B and F of 21 CFR 117 for food processing plants. The food handler card requirements are not changed.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#nm-2026-10-01-food-code-permit-fees-and-home-based-repeal","who_is_affected":"New Mexico food establishment permit holders and mobile, temporary and home-based food operators. Individual food handlers are not affected: the card requirement, its 30-day window and its three-year validity are unchanged, and the card still carries no state-set fee."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"or-cna","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/cna/or-cna/"}],"after":"From October 1, 2026 the rule reads '(1) Fingerprinting - $61. (2) Predetermination - $75.' The order is temporary and expires March 29, 2027, so the $61 figure holds only if the Board makes it permanent; the Board's stated reason for the temporary route is that its next meeting is October 15, 2026, after the effective date.","before":"OAR 851-002-0055 reads '(1) Fingerprinting - $58. (2) Predetermination - $75.' and that is the fee in force through September 30, 2026.","credential":"Every Oregon State Board of Nursing credential that requires a fingerprint-based background check, including the Nursing Assistant certificate (CNA) at initial certification, reinstatement and disciplinary reinstatement","date":"2026-10-01","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Oregon's Board of Nursing fingerprinting fee rises from $58 to $61 on October 1, 2026, passing through an FBI increase","id":"or-2026-10-01-osbn-fingerprinting-fee-61","instrument":"Temporary Administrative Order BN 6-2026, Oregon State Board of Nursing, amending OAR 851-002-0055 (Miscellaneous Fees); filing caption 'Division 2 - Updated Fingerprinting Fee'","jurisdiction":"Oregon","occupations":["cna"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-08-24 capture of the chapter 851 division 2 fee schedules reads 'Fingerprinting - $58', matching the rule in force today. The new figure comes from the Board's own filed order, read on 2026-09-02 from the Secretary of State's filing receipt: 'RULE TEXT: (1) Fingerprinting - $61. (2) Predetermination - $75.' The Board's rulemaking page carries the same explanation in prose."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed before October 1, 2026 - or-cna's $58 fingerprint fee is correct through September 30. A dated note was added in the fees, requirements and FAQ text: $61 from October 1, 2026 under a temporary rule running through March 29, 2027.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Oregon Secretary of State, Oregon Administrative Rules Database (Oregon State Board of Nursing, chapter 851)","url":"https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=851-002-0055"},"summary":"A temporary rule filed with the Oregon Secretary of State on August 21, 2026 amends OAR 851-002-0055 to read 'Fingerprinting - $61', effective October 1, 2026 and running through March 29, 2027. The Board says the FBI raised its charge for fingerprint-based and name-based criminal history record checks by $3.00, and that its own fee covers FBI and Oregon State Police charges. The increase was made temporarily because the Board's next meeting, October 15, 2026, falls after the effective date. Until September 30, 2026 the fee remains $58.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#or-2026-10-01-osbn-fingerprinting-fee-61","who_is_affected":"Anyone starting an Oregon CNA application, reinstating a lapsed certificate or applying for disciplinary reinstatement on or after October 1, 2026 pays $61 rather than $58 for the fingerprint step, which is booked separately through the state's fingerprinting contractor after the application is filed. Applications paid before October 1 are unaffected. The predetermination fee is unchanged at $75."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ct-notary","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/notary/ct-notary/"}],"after":"Rev. 2026-1 answers 'Can I notarize the document electronically?' with: 'Our office does not currently accept a document that is executed (signed) electronically. All remote notarizations should be done on paper and that the notary sign and certify the document by hand (wet-ink signature).' Section 5.8 gives a ceiling of ten dollars per act plus travel at up to the IRS business standard mileage rate, effective July 1, 2026.","before":"Rev. 2023-2 said: 'Our office is researching whether the Act can be interpreted as allowing a notary and signer to execute the document electronically. Until this issue is resolved, we strongly recommend that all remote notarizations be done on paper and that the notary sign and certify the document by hand.' Its fee section gave five dollars per act plus thirty-five cents a mile.","credential":"Connecticut notary public appointment","date":"2026-09-28","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-09-28","detected_at":"https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/SOTS/Business-Services/Notary/State_of_Connecticut_Notary_Public_Manual_Rev2023.pdf","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Connecticut reissued its Notary Public Manual and now says it does not accept electronically signed remote notarizations","id":"ct-2026-09-28-notary-manual-rev-2026-1","instrument":"State of Connecticut Notary Public Manual, Rev. 2026-1 (guidance published by the Secretary of the State; no statute changed with it)","jurisdiction":"Connecticut","occupations":["notary"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"official-text","note":"Our record of the same address before September 28, 2026 held the Rev. 2023-2 text quoted above."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-29-A002","D-2026-09-29-A003"],"on":"2026-09-29","outcome":"The Connecticut notary page quoted four remote-notarization sentences the new manual no longer contains and called electronic signing an open question. It now quotes Rev. 2026-1. While re-reading, a separate error was found and fixed: the page said the manual never mentions notary signing agents, but its FAQ says Connecticut does not license them.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Connecticut Secretary of the State","url":"https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/SOTS/Business-Services/Notary/State_of_Connecticut_Notary_Public_Manual_Rev2023.pdf"},"summary":"The Secretary of the State published Notary Public Manual Rev. 2026-1 at the same address as the 2023 edition. The remote-notarization chapter was rewritten: where the old manual said the office was still researching whether a remote notarization could be executed electronically, the new one says the office does not currently accept a document signed electronically, and that remote notarizations should be done on paper with the notary's wet-ink signature. The fee section now states the $10 per-act ceiling in force since July 1, 2026.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ct-2026-09-28-notary-manual-rev-2026-1","who_is_affected":"Connecticut notaries public who perform, or are considering, remote notarizations, and anyone preparing for the notary application exam, which is based on the manual."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ma-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/ma-electrician/"}],"after":"Applicants 'submit your online application on the eLIPSE portal, to be approved to schedule your exam with PSI'. Fees: $31 application and $104 license (journeyman, systems technician); $66 application and $155 license (master, systems contractor); exam $135 for both portions ($80 trade, $55 business/practical), paid directly to PSI.","before":"Applicants submitted an online application to PSI before scheduling the exam and paid PSI $226 (journeyman, systems technician) or $276 (master, systems contractor) by money order or cashier's check, not counting the separate license fee.","credential":"Massachusetts journeyman electrician, master electrician, systems technician and systems contractor licenses","date":"2026-09-28","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-09-28","detected_at":"https://www.mass.gov/how-to/apply-for-an-individual-electrical-or-systems-license","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Massachusetts electrician applications moved from PSI to the state's eLIPSE portal, with new application and license fees","id":"ma-2026-09-28-electrician-applications-move-to-elipse","instrument":"Revision of the Board's 'Apply for an individual electrical or systems license' page (operational change; no statute or regulation text was cited with it)","jurisdiction":"Massachusetts","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"official-text","note":"Our record of the same page before September 28, 2026 held the PSI application instructions and the $60 / $75 PSI application processing fees."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-29-A004"],"on":"2026-09-29","outcome":"The Massachusetts electrician page still sent applicants to PSI with the old fees. It was corrected the same day with the new portal and fees.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Massachusetts Division of Occupational Licensure, Board of State Examiners of Electricians","url":"https://www.mass.gov/how-to/apply-for-an-individual-electrical-or-systems-license"},"summary":"The Board of State Examiners of Electricians now takes applications, renewals and reinstatements in the Division of Occupational Licensure's eLIPSE portal instead of through PSI, its exam vendor. Journeyman and systems technician applicants pay a $31 application fee and a $104 license fee; master electrician and systems contractor applicants pay $66 and $155. The exam fee of $135 for both portions is paid to PSI when scheduling.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ma-2026-09-28-electrician-applications-move-to-elipse","who_is_affected":"Anyone applying for, renewing or reinstating a Massachusetts electrician or systems license."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ut-notary","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/notary/ut-notary/"}],"after":"The office states: 'the current notary application will be retired and replaced by a new system on September 15, 2026. All applications must be completed by this date, including submitting a background check and uploading all required documents. Any incomplete applications will be returned and applicants will be required to submit a new application.' The office has not published the steps, screens or fees for the replacement system.","before":"Applicants created an account on the Notary Office's existing application system, paid a $95 administration fee immediately after taking the online exam, submitted to a background check, and uploaded the signed $5,000 bond and a notarized Oath of Office; there was no final-submit step, and the office emailed the Certificate of Authority once the file was processed.","credential":"Utah notary public commission (initial application and re-application; Utah has no renewal, so returning notaries use the same application)","date":"2026-09-15","date_kind":"version-expired","date_kind_label":"statute version expired","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Utah retires its current notary application on September 15, 2026 - incomplete applications will be returned","id":"ut-2026-09-15-notary-application-system-replaced","instrument":"Announcement of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Notary Office, dated August 28, 2026 (application system replacement)","jurisdiction":"Utah","occupations":["notary"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-08-17 capture of the Notary Office home page led its News \u0026 Information list with the June 22, 2026 notice 'NEW NOTARY APPLICATION POSTPONED - NOTARY APPLICATION POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE'; the 2026-08-31 capture leads with the August 28, 2026 notice quoted above, with the June 22 item pushed below it. The announcement page itself and the Process and Qualifications page were both re-read live on 2026-09-02, and the process page still describes the current system's seven steps unchanged."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed before the launch. ut-notary's seven application steps match the live Process-and-Qualifications page today; the Lt. Governor's announcement that the current application is retired on Sept. 15, 2026 and incomplete applications returned is recorded here, and the page is re-read on that date - Utah postponed this launch once already, so the steps are not rewritten in advance.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Utah Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Notary Office","url":"https://notary.utah.gov/announcements/new-notary-application-launching-9-15-2026/"},"summary":"The Office of the Lieutenant Governor announced on August 28, 2026 that Utah's current notary public application will be retired and replaced by a new system on September 15, 2026. Every application must be complete by that date, including the background check and all uploaded documents; an incomplete application is returned and the applicant has to start a new one. The office postponed an earlier launch of the same replacement 'until further notice' on June 22, 2026.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ut-2026-09-15-notary-application-system-replaced","who_is_affected":"Anyone with a Utah notary application in progress - in particular an applicant who has already paid the $95 administration fee and is waiting on a surety bond or a notarized Oath of Office. Utah has no renewal provision, so a commissioned notary re-applying at the end of a four-year term is on the same deadline."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"az-notary","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/notary/az-notary/"}],"after":"For a deed, quitclaim deed, deed of trust, other document affecting real property, or a power of attorney, the notary 'shall require the party signing the document to place the party's right thumbprint in the notary's journal'. If the right thumb is not available the notary uses the left thumb or any available finger and notes it; if the signer is physically unable to give any print the notary notes that and explains the condition. Three exemptions apply: a trustee's deed resulting from a judicial or nonjudicial foreclosure; a deed of release and reconveyance; and a notarial act for a remotely located individual under § 41-263 where the journal carries the signer's identification credential number and the audiovisual recording is kept for at least seven years - seven, not the five years § 41-263(E) otherwise requires.","before":"A.R.S. § 41-254 required only that the individual making a statement or executing a signature appear personally before the notarial officer. No thumbprint was required in the journal for any class of document.","credential":"Arizona notary public commission (including the separate electronic notary and remote online notary authorizations)","date":"2026-09-12","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Arizona notaries must take the signer's right thumbprint in the journal for deeds and powers of attorney from September 12, 2026","id":"az-2026-09-12-notary-thumbprint-real-property","instrument":"Laws 2026, Chapter 31 (Senate Bill 1479), amending A.R.S. §§ 41-254 and 41-263","jurisdiction":"Arizona","occupations":["notary"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"statute","note":"The enrolled act was read in full on 2026-09-02. It ends 'APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR APRIL 9, 2026' with no emergency clause and no separate effective-date section, so the session's general effective date governs. The Arizona Legislature's own home page states 'The Arizona Legislature has adjourned Sine Die 2026 - Fifty-seventh Legislature - Second Regular Session: June 13, 2026 10:06 A.M.' and 'The General Effective Date for the 57th 2nd Regular Session is September 12, 2026.' The Secretary of State's notary page independently posts 'AZ Senate Bill 1479 - Signed: April 09, 2026 - Effective: September 12, 2026' above the same five document types."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed before the effective date. az-notary's journal text is correct today and carries a dated forward note on the thumbprint requirement; the fuller wording (the three exemptions, the left-thumb/any-finger fallback, the amended section being A.R.S. 41-254 rather than 41-319) is scheduled for Sept. 12, 2026 when the act takes effect.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Arizona State Legislature (enrolled text of Laws 2026, Chapter 31)","url":"https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/2R/laws/0031.htm"},"summary":"Laws 2026, Chapter 31 (Senate Bill 1479) rewrites A.R.S. § 41-254 to require an Arizona notary to take the signer's right thumbprint in the notary journal when notarizing a deed, quitclaim deed, deed of trust, any other document affecting real property, or a power of attorney. The Governor approved the act on April 9, 2026 and it takes effect on September 12, 2026, the general effective date of the Fifty-seventh Legislature's Second Regular Session. Foreclosure trustee's deeds, deeds of release and reconveyance, and qualifying remote online notarizations are exempt.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#az-2026-09-12-notary-thumbprint-real-property","who_is_affected":"Every commissioned Arizona notary public who notarizes real-property documents or powers of attorney, and every Arizona signer of such a document. Remote online notaries are exempt only if they meet both conditions: the signer's identification credential number in the journal and seven-year retention of the recording."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"va-food-handler","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/food-handler/va-food-handler/"}],"after":"Effective September 10, 2026, 37 sections are amended and 12VAC5-421-445 and 12VAC5-421-726 are added, conforming the chapter to the 2022 FDA Food Code. The Register entry gives the public comment deadline as August 26, 2026 and the effective date as September 10, 2026. Section 12VAC5-421-55, the Certified Food Protection Manager requirement, is not in the amending clause and its text is unchanged.","before":"12VAC5-421 reflected an earlier edition of the FDA Food Code, with the chapter last broadly amended effective June 10, 2021 and the food protection manager section last amended effective November 23, 2022.","credential":"Virginia has no statewide employee food handler card; the statewide personnel requirement is the Certified Food Protection Manager under 12VAC5-421-55, and this action does not amend that section","date":"2026-09-10","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Virginia's Food Regulations conform to the 2022 FDA Food Code on September 10, 2026 - but the food manager certification rule is untouched","id":"va-2026-09-10-food-regulations-conform-2022-food-code","instrument":"Fast-track regulation amending 12VAC5-421, Food Regulations, State Board of Health, published in the Virginia Register of Regulations Vol. 42, Iss. 25 (July 27, 2026), adopted under Va. Code Secs. 35.1-11 and 35.1-14","jurisdiction":"Virginia","occupations":["food-handler","food-manager"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"rule","note":"The live text of 12VAC5-421-55 on law.lis.virginia.gov, read 2026-09-02, ends its historical notes at 'amended, Virginia Register Volume 39, Issue 5, eff. November 23, 2022', and the section does not appear in the amending clause of this action. The published amendment marks struck text and new text; the 'food establishment' definition in 12VAC5-421-10 carries neither, and matches the live section word for word."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed. va-food-handler names no Food Code edition and the one section it quotes, 12VAC5-421-10, carries no struck or new text in the published amendment; 12VAC5-421-55, which the food-manager table cites, is outside the amending clause. Re-read on September 10, 2026 when the fast-track amendment takes effect.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Virginia Register of Regulations, Virginia Code Commission (Department of Legislative Automated Systems)","url":"https://register.dls.virginia.gov/details.aspx?id=12365"},"summary":"A State Board of Health fast-track action amends 37 sections of 12VAC5-421 and adds two more, conforming the chapter to the 2022 FDA Food Code: updated definitions and terminology, flexibility for minimal-risk establishments, an expanded role for responsible management, clearer conditions for excluding or restricting ill food employees, shellfish tagging, risk categorization, poisonous material storage, enforcement, variances and food donation. The Certified Food Protection Manager section, 12VAC5-421-55, is not among the amended sections, so Virginia's only statewide personnel credential is unchanged.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#va-2026-09-10-food-regulations-conform-2022-food-code","who_is_affected":"Virginia food establishments and their staff. The practical changes fall on permit holders and persons in charge - especially the rules for excluding or restricting food employees who are ill, which are being clarified - not on individual workers seeking a credential. No new certification is created and none is retired: Virginia still requires no employee food handler card statewide, and still requires at least one certified food protection manager per establishment except where 12VAC5-421-55(B) or Va. Code Sec. 35.1-25 exempts it."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ny-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/ny-hvac/"}],"after":"Sec. 20-388 reads: 'There shall be a biennial fee of $200 for a license to conduct a home improvement business.' DCWP's checklist charges $200 (March-August of an odd year), $150 (September of an odd year to February of an even year), $100 (March-August of an even year), or $50 or $250 (September of an even year to February of an odd year). The checklist also says: 'The license application fee includes the cost of taking the exam up to two times. If you fail the exam twice, you must pay $50 to retake the exam.'","before":"Sec. 20-388 set the license fee at fifty dollars, and DCWP's checklist charged $100, $75, $50, or $25 or $125 depending on the filing window.","credential":"New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Home Improvement Contractor license","date":"2026-09-08","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-09-28","detected_at":"https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/newyorkcity/latest/NYCadmin/0-0-0-124376","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"New York City doubled the Home Improvement Contractor license fee to $200 for two years","id":"ny-2026-09-08-nyc-home-improvement-license-fee","instrument":"NYC Local Law 2025/183, amending Administrative Code sec. 20-388","jurisdiction":"New York","occupations":["hvac"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"official-text","note":"Our record of the Administrative Code before September 28, 2026 carried the fifty-dollar text of sec. 20-388, and our record of DCWP's checklist before September 17, 2026 carried the $25-$125 tiers."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-29-A001","D-2026-09-29-A006"],"on":"2026-09-29","outcome":"The New York HVAC page still gave the old license fees and a separate $50 exam fee. Both were corrected the same day; the page now gives the new amounts, says the exam is included, and names the local law.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection","url":"https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/businesses/license-checklist-home-improvement-contractor.page"},"summary":"New York City's Home Improvement Contractor license, which covers residential HVAC installation in the city, now costs $200 for a full two-year term. Local Law 2025/183 amended Administrative Code sec. 20-388, effective September 8, 2026, and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection's checklist now charges $200, $150, $100, or $50 or $250 depending on where in the cycle you file. The license fee now also covers up to two attempts at the Home Improvement Exam, which used to cost a separate $50; $50 now buys two more attempts after two failures. The bond and Trust Fund fee did not change.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ny-2026-09-08-nyc-home-improvement-license-fee","who_is_affected":"Anyone applying for or renewing a New York City Home Improvement Contractor license, including HVAC businesses doing residential installation work in the city."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ut-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/ut-electrician/"}],"after":"One page per classification, headed simply 'Apply for a Journeyman Electrician License' - the '(Utah Applicants)' scope is gone - with the endorsement route inside it: 'Out-of-State Application by Endorsement - To see if you qualify for a license by endorsement from another state, review the Journeyman Electrician Endorsement to Utah map. If the state you are licensed in shows no equivalent license to Utah, you will need to meet the licensing requirements above. If the state you are licensed in shows an equivalent to the Utah license, request a Verification of Licensure from your state's licensing authority. Upload the verification as a document during your online application, or have it emailed to [the Division's address, which the page masks against automated collection].' The master and residential master pages add: 'All applicants will be required to pass the Utah Master Electrician Law and Rule examination. Visit the Electrician Exam Information webpage for more details.' All three of the old addresses still answer and serve this merged page.","before":"Each classification had its own endorsement page. The journeyman one read: 'You may qualify for licensure by endorsement if you can provide official verification of licensure in a state, district, or territory of the United States with a similar scope of practice to the license classification being applied for. To determine if your state qualifies for licensure by endorsement, please refer to Endorsement to Utah: Journeyman Electrician for additional information[.] If you qualify for licensure by endorsement, please submit an official Verification of License from the state you are coming from. The verification form can be found in the Licensure By Endorsement Verification Form.' The master version closed: 'NOTE: Prior to applying, all applicants MUST past the Utah Master Electrician Law and Rule examination.' The menu on every page in the section listed 'Utah Applicants / Out of State Applicants Not Applying by Endorsement / Out of State Applicants Applying by Endorsement' under each of the four examined classifications.","credential":"Utah electrician licenses issued by the Department of Commerce, Division of Professional Licensing - Apprentice, Residential Journeyman, Journeyman, Residential Master and Master Electrician","date":"2026-09-08","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-09-08","detected_at":"https://commerce.utah.gov/dopl/electrical/","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Utah merged its separate out-of-state electrician application pages into one page per license and rewrote the endorsement instructions","id":"ut-2026-09-08-electrician-application-pages-merged","instrument":"Revision of the Division of Professional Licensing's electrician application pages. Operational guidance only: no rule or statute changed, and every requirement value on the pages is unchanged.","jurisdiction":"Utah","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"archive","note":"The Internet Archive's copy of the electrical section's front page from 2026-08-14 (web.archive.org/web/20260814171012) still carries the old menu, with 'Utah Applicants / Out of State Applicants Not Applying by Endorsement / Out of State Applicants Applying by Endorsement' listed under each of the four examined classifications, and still links the audience-specific addresses as separate documents; our own record of the same page dated 2026-08-03 agrees with it. The Archive also holds the old journeyman endorsement page from 2026-05-26 and the old master endorsement page from 2026-03-06, which is the source of the previous wording quoted above. The merged pages are evidenced by our record dated 2026-09-08 and by a direct reading of the Division's pages on 2026-09-09, which agree exactly. The change therefore falls between August 14 and September 8, 2026, and is dated to the earliest day it can be evidenced."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-10-A009"],"on":"2026-09-10","outcome":"No substantive value on ut-electrician was wrong. Four rendered source labels were: entries 2-5 of the source list read 'Apply - \u003cclassification\u003e (Utah applicants)' for pages the Division has re-scoped, which told an out-of-state reader to skip the one page that now carries the endorsement instructions. I rewrote all four to '(Utah and out-of-state applicants; carries the Out-of-State Application by Endorsement section)' and added a requirements entry, 'Out-of-state applicants (endorsement)', quoting the Division's new section - the Endorsement to Utah map, the no-equivalent rule, and the Verification of Licensure upload - and closing with the Master and Residential Master sentence 'All applicants will be required to pass the Utah Master Electrician Law and Rule examination.' The Division's masked email address was not reproduced, no hour, examination or fee value was touched, and the old audience-specific addresses were not described as dead. Verified live on 2026-09-10: commerce.utah.gov returned a refusal to this vantage, so all four application pages were read from a US-vantage runner (run 34492151469, 4/4 returned the page). Each is headed 'Apply for a \u003cclassification\u003e Electrician License' with no '(Utah Applicants)' scope and each carries the Out-of-State Application by Endorsement section verbatim. One correction to the candidate: the two master-level pages do not word the follow-on sentence identically - the Master page says 'Visit the Electrical Exam Information webpage' and the Residential Master page says 'Visit the Electrician Exam Information webpage' - so only the sentence common to both was quoted.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Utah Department of Commerce, Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL)","url":"https://commerce.utah.gov/dopl/electrical/apply-for-a-license/journeyman-electrician/utah-applicants/"},"summary":"The Division of Professional Licensing had kept three application pages for each electrician classification - one for Utah applicants, one for out-of-state applicants applying by endorsement, one for out-of-state applicants not applying by endorsement. They are now a single page per classification, and the endorsement instructions were rewritten in the move: an applicant is told to check the Division's Endorsement to Utah map for the classification, and, if their state has an equivalent license, to request a Verification of Licensure from their own licensing authority and upload it with the online application or send it by email. The Division's named Licensure By Endorsement Verification Form is no longer part of the instruction. No requirement hour, examination or fee changed.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ut-2026-09-08-electrician-application-pages-merged","who_is_affected":"Any electrician licensed in another state who wants a Utah license, and anyone holding a bookmark to one of the Division's audience-specific application pages. The route is now: check the Endorsement to Utah map for the classification you want; if your state has no Utah equivalent you meet Utah's ordinary requirements instead; if it does, request a Verification of Licensure from your own state's authority and send it with the application. Two details changed with the rewrite, and both affect what an applicant does. The verification is no longer submitted on the Division's own Licensure By Endorsement Verification Form - it is uploaded with the online application or emailed to the Division. And for the Master and Residential Master classifications the page no longer says the Utah Master Electrician Law and Rule examination must be passed 'prior to applying'; it says only that 'All applicants will be required to pass' it, which is consistent with the Division's standing statement that pre-approval for testing is not required. Utah applicants are unaffected: the hours, examinations and fees on all five classification pages are identical to what the Division published before the merge."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"wi-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/wi-electrician/"}],"after":"Chapter SPS 316 adopts 'NFPA 70 National Electrical Code, (NEC) - 2023, including all Temporary Interim Amendments and Errata prior to January 1, 2025.' Two more permit triggers were added: 'vacant land for which a permit under this chapter or ch. SPS 320 has not already been issued' and 'any structure for which a permit under this chapter or ch. SPS 320 has not already been issued', both 'except as specifically exempted by rule or statute'. A new s. SPS 316.013(4) requires records of inspections to be kept.","before":"Chapter SPS 316 adopted the 2017 edition of the National Electrical Code, in force since August 1, 2018, and its permit section listed seven kinds of installation that needed one.","credential":"Journeyman and Master Electrician licenses - code edition and wiring permits","date":"2026-09-01","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Wisconsin's electrical code moved to the 2023 NEC on September 1 - and added two new permit triggers","id":"wi-2026-09-01-sps316-2023-nec","instrument":"Wis. Admin. Code ch. SPS 316 as revised by CR 26-016 (Register June 2026 No. 846), esp. ss. SPS 316.007(1)(a), 316.012(1)(a)8.-9. and 316.013(4)","jurisdiction":"Wisconsin","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our dated capture of the chapter's table of contents from 2026-08-03 still lists ss. SPS 316.240, 316.358, 316.404, 316.511 and 316.701, every one of which CR 26-016 repealed and none of which appears in the chapter today."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-02-A007"],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"Corrected the same day. wi-electrician's legal-basis line had described ch. SPS 316 as the basis for a 2017 NEC exam scope; it now records the CR 26-016 revision to the 2023 NEC effective Sept. 1, 2026, and the exam text carries both official sources - the code's 2023 edition and DSPS's exam page, which still names the 2017 book - dated, with the reader told to confirm the edition with DSPS.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Wisconsin Legislature - Administrative Rules (Clearinghouse Rule CR 26-016, Department of Safety and Professional Services)","url":"https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/chr/all/cr_26_016"},"summary":"The Department of Safety and Professional Services rewrote ch. SPS 316, the Wisconsin electrical code, through Clearinghouse Rule CR 26-016. Effective September 1, 2026, s. SPS 316.007(1)(a) incorporates 'NFPA 70 National Electrical Code, (NEC) - 2023, including all Temporary Interim Amendments and Errata prior to January 1, 2025', replacing the 2017 edition the chapter had carried since August 1, 2018. The same order created s. SPS 316.012(1)(a)8. and 9., which require an electrical permit for wiring on vacant land or in any structure that does not already hold a permit under ch. SPS 316 or ch. SPS 320, and s. SPS 316.013(4), which requires records of inspections to be kept. Separately, the Department's Master Electrician exam page still lists the 2017 NEC book as the code permitted in the exam room.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#wi-2026-09-01-sps316-2023-nec","who_is_affected":"Electricians and electrical contractors working anywhere in Wisconsin, who now install to the 2023 NEC as modified by ch. SPS 316, and anyone wiring vacant land or an unpermitted structure, who now needs a permit before the work starts. Candidates sitting a Wisconsin licensing exam should note that the Department's own exam page still names the 2017 NEC book as the edition allowed in the exam room, so the two official statements differ and the exam edition should be confirmed with the Department before the test date."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"or-cna","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/cna/or-cna/"}],"after":"OAR 851-062-0050(1)(e)(B) reads 'A Joint Services transcript that shows evidence of completion of U.S. military training as an aeronautical medic, combat medic 68W, or medical training as a naval corpsman'. OAR 851-062-0070(2) lists only the renewal form, the fees and the cultural-competency attestation; the Board's order states that 'Background check requirements, redundant with Division 1, have been removed from this section', and OAR 851-001-0115 continues to require a fitness determination 'When applying for a license or certification to practice, including renewal'. OAR 851-062-0080 reads 'A CMA must have a current Oregon CNA certificate and be listed on the Oregon CNA Registry prior to performing medication aide duties.'","before":"OAR 851-062-0050(1)(e)(B) read 'A Joint Services transcript and DD214 form'. OAR 851-062-0070(2)(c) required 'Completion of state records criminal background check as described in OAR 851-001-0115' as part of every two-year renewal. OAR 851-062-0080 read 'A CMA must have a current Oregon CMA certificate and be listed on the Oregon CNA Registry prior to performing medication aide duties.'","credential":"Oregon Nursing Assistant certificate (CNA), and the Certified Medication Aide (CMA) certificate that sits on top of it","date":"2026-09-01","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Oregon rewrote nine nursing-assistant and medication-aide rules effective September 1, 2026 - the military pathway to CNA certification is now three named specialties, and the background-check clause has left the renewal rule","id":"or-2026-09-01-nursing-assistant-rules-phase-2","instrument":"Permanent Administrative Order BN 5-2026, Oregon State Board of Nursing, OAR chapter 851 division 62 (filing caption 'Division 62 - Phase 2 edits to January 2026 HB3044 Revisions'; notice filed 06/25/2026, agency approved 08/20/2026, filed with the Secretary of State 08/21/2026)","jurisdiction":"Oregon","occupations":["cna"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-08-24 capture of the division 62 listing still carries all three old sentences verbatim - 'A Joint Services transcript and DD214 form', 'Completion of state records criminal background check', and 'A CMA must have a current Oregon CMA certificate' - which is correct for that date, because the order did not take effect until September 1. An Internet Archive capture of the same listing dated 2025-11-23 shows the same three sentences, confirming the prior text from an independent host. The current text was read on 2026-09-02 from the rules database, and the amending order itself (BN 5-2026, filed 08/21/2026 at 8:14 AM, effective 09/01/2026) was read from the Secretary of State's filing receipt."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-02-A012"],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"Corrected the same day. or-cna quoted the pre-amendment military endorsement route, the renewal rule's state-records background-check clause, the 'can apply' reinstatement wording, two sub-paragraph pins and the Board's 'CMA certificate' misnomer; each now carries the September 1, 2026 text with the prior wording dated. The background check remains a renewal requirement under OAR 851-001-0115 and is stated as such.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Oregon Secretary of State, Oregon Administrative Rules Database (Oregon State Board of Nursing, chapter 851)","url":"https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=851-062-0050"},"summary":"Permanent Administrative Order BN 5-2026, filed August 21, 2026 and effective September 1, 2026, amends OAR 851-062-0050, -0070, -0071, -0075, -0080, -0090, -0110, -0114 and -0116. The military route to initial certification, which had read 'A Joint Services transcript and DD214 form', now requires a Joint Services transcript showing training as an aeronautical medic, combat medic 68W or naval corpsman. The routine two-year renewal rule no longer states the state records background check - the Board removed it as redundant with OAR 851-001-0115, which still applies to renewals. The medication aide rule's prerequisite was corrected from 'a current Oregon CMA certificate' to 'a current Oregon CNA certificate'.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#or-2026-09-01-nursing-assistant-rules-phase-2","who_is_affected":"Anyone applying for an Oregon CNA certificate on a military record: a DD214 alone is no longer the rule's route, and the Joint Services transcript must show training as an aeronautical medic, combat medic 68W or naval corpsman - the same three specialties now also open the medication aide route. Renewing CNAs are still subject to a criminal background check at renewal; it now comes from OAR 851-001-0115 rather than from the renewal rule, so nothing changes at the counter. Medication aides get a plain-English fix: the prerequisite is the CNA certificate, as the Board has always applied it."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"tx-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/tx-hvac/"}],"after":"The Texas Register's August 28, 2026 adopted-rules issue states: 'The adopted rules update the applicable codes adopted by reference for air conditioning and refrigeration contracting from the 2021 editions to the 2024 editions of the International Residential Code, International Mechanical Code, International Fuel Gas Code, and Uniform Mechanical Code, effective September 1, 2026.' The Commission adopted the rules at its meeting on July 28, 2026; they were filed with the Secretary of State on August 12, 2026, with an effective date of September 1, 2026. Proposal publication date: May 22, 2026 (51 TexReg 3495).","before":"Through 2026-08-31, s. 75.110 adopted the 2021 editions of the four model codes. As late as the 2026-08-28 tripwire walk, TDLR's own air-conditioning news feed still showed no adoption -- its newest items were a June 23 rule review and the May 12 proposal -- so this site recorded the package as proposal-only.","credential":"Texas Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Contractor license (Class A / Class B) and ACR technician registrations and certificates, administered by TDLR under Tex. Occ. Code ch. 1302","date":"2026-09-01","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-01","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Texas updated the codes governing air conditioning and refrigeration contracting from the 2021 to the 2024 editions, effective September 1, 2026","id":"tx-2026-09-01-tdlr-ch75-2024-code-editions","instrument":"16 TAC ch. 75, ss. 75.10, 75.80, 75.110, 75.121 and 75.124 amended (s. 75.110 adopted with changes and republished); s. 75.28 repealed. TRD-202603422 (amendments) and TRD-202603423 (repeal).","jurisdiction":"Texas","occupations":["hvac"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"audit-note","note":"This site's tripwire walks on 2026-08-21, 2026-08-24 and 2026-08-28 each read TDLR's own ACR news feed and correctly reported no adoption. The feed was the wrong instrument: adoption occurred July 28 and was not posted to that feed until August 31. The Texas Register adopted-rules issue is the leading source; the agency news feed lags it."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-01","outcome":"Read directly in the Texas Register's August 28, 2026 issue on 2026-09-01 (the issue's Title 16 file, read directly). TRD numbers, filing date, effective date, proposal date and the amended/repealed section list were each read from that text. NO LICENSINGATLAS PAGE WAS FALSIFIED: tx-hvac is edition-agnostic and contains no reference to a 2021 or 2024 code edition, so nothing on it became untrue. Publishing this as a change, not as a correction.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Texas Register (Office of the Secretary of State), adopted rules of the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation / Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation","url":"https://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/archive/August282026/Adopted%20Rules/16.ECONOMIC%20REGULATION.html"},"summary":"The Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation adopted amendments to 16 TAC Chapter 75 that replace the 2021 editions of the International Residential Code, International Mechanical Code, International Fuel Gas Code and Uniform Mechanical Code with the 2024 editions as the rules of practice for ACR contracting. Section 75.28 was repealed in the same package.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#tx-2026-09-01-tdlr-ch75-2024-code-editions","who_is_affected":"Texas ACR contractors and technicians performing work on or after September 1, 2026: the model-code editions their work is measured against are now the 2024 IRC, IMC, IFGC and UMC. No fee changed in this package -- s. 75.80 (Fees) was amended but carries no dollar figure in the adopted text."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"tx-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/tx-electrician/"}],"after":"The Texas Register's August 28, 2026 adopted-rules issue states: 'The adopted rule adopts the 2026 National Electrical Code (NEC) published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) as the state's electrical code, with one modification.' Adopted at the Commission's July 28, 2026 meeting, filed with the Secretary of State on August 12, 2026, effective September 1, 2026. Proposal publication date: March 20, 2026 (51 TexReg 1785).","before":"The prior s. 73.100 adopted an earlier NEC edition. This site had recorded a 2026-NEC adoption as UNPUBLISHABLE since 2026-07-11 because the only support found then was a trade-association (IEC Fort Worth) page, and this site cites official sources only.","credential":"Texas electrician licenses and registrations administered by TDLR under Tex. Occ. Code ch. 1305 (Journeyman, Master, Residential Wireman, Apprentice and the contractor licenses)","date":"2026-09-01","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-01","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Texas adopted the 2026 National Electrical Code as the state electrical code, effective September 1, 2026","id":"tx-2026-09-01-tdlr-2026-nec-adopted","instrument":"16 TAC s. 73.100, amended without changes to the proposed text. TRD-202603409.","jurisdiction":"Texas","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"audit-note","note":"On 2026-07-11 this site found the 2026-NEC claim only on an IEC Fort Worth page and declined to publish it for want of an official source; tx-electrician has since described the exam as open-book against 'the TDLR-adopted NEC edition' without naming an edition. That official source now exists."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-01","outcome":"Read directly in the Texas Register's August 28, 2026 issue on 2026-09-01. TRD number, filing date, effective date and proposal citation each read from that text. NO LICENSINGATLAS PAGE WAS FALSIFIED: tx-electrician names no NEC edition, so nothing on it became untrue -- the edition-agnostic wording can now be made specific as a separate content improvement.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Texas Register (Office of the Secretary of State), adopted rules of the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation / Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation","url":"https://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/archive/August282026/Adopted%20Rules/16.ECONOMIC%20REGULATION.html"},"summary":"The Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation amended 16 TAC s. 73.100 to adopt the 2026 edition of the National Electrical Code, published by the NFPA, as the state's electrical code, with one modification.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#tx-2026-09-01-tdlr-2026-nec-adopted","who_is_affected":"Texas electricians and electrical contractors: work performed on or after September 1, 2026 is governed by the 2026 NEC as modified by TDLR. The TDLR licensing exam is open-book against the adopted NEC edition, and the four hours of continuing education required each renewal must cover the NEC -- so the edition change reaches both the exam and the CE content."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ak-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/ak-electrician/"}],"after":"Two sentences have been added to the end of that same paragraph: 'A state-issued COF is required to perform construction work subject to the NEC in all parts of Alaska. A state-issued Electrician and Power Lineman Trainee COF is required to earn hours towards a Journeyman COF.' A matching requirement sentence was added to each of the Section's other four programs at the same time, and the plumbing one carries a carve-out the electrical one does not: 'in all parts of Alaska other than small communities as noted above.'","before":"The Electrical section ended with jurisdiction and inspection, and said nothing about who must hold a certificate: 'MI has authority over new and altered electrical installations subject to the National Electrical Code and the National Electrical Safety Code. All commercial structures and dwellings of three-plex and above are subject to inspection. Inspection authority is deferred to local government inspectors in the Municipality of Anchorage through a memorandum of agreement.' The section then moved straight on to Plumbing.","credential":"Alaska certificates of fitness issued by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Labor Standards and Safety, Mechanical Inspection Section - Electrician Journeyman, Residential Wireman and Power Lineman Journeyman, and the Electrician and Power Lineman Trainee certificates that precede them","date":"2026-08-31","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-09-08","detected_at":"https://labor.alaska.gov/lss/mihome.htm","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Alaska's Mechanical Inspection Section now says plainly that an electrical certificate of fitness is required in every part of the state - and that a trainee certificate is required to earn hours toward journeyman","id":"ak-2026-08-31-mi-cof-statewide-and-trainee-required-for-hours","instrument":"Program page published by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Labor Standards and Safety, Mechanical Inspection Section. The underlying requirements are AS 18.62.010, which forbids employing a person without a certificate of fitness for work subject to AS 18.60.580; 8 AAC 90.165, which issues the electrician and power lineman trainee certificate on documented proof of indenture in a United States Department of Labor accredited apprenticeship and limits job sites to two trainees per certified journeyman or residential wireman; and 8 AAC 90.890, under which the Department counts only hours worked for a contractor with valid credentials in the state where the work was done, subject to the applicable code, under the direct supervision of a journey-level tradesperson.","jurisdiction":"Alaska","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"archive","note":"The Internet Archive holds this page on January 1, January 31, February 2 and August 12 of 2026. Collapsed on content digest, the August 12, 2026 copy is identical to the January 31, 2026 one, and reading it directly confirms that neither 'all parts of Alaska' nor 'Trainee COF' appears anywhere in it - the Electrical paragraph still ends at the Anchorage memorandum-of-agreement sentence. Our own record of the page dated July 27, 2026 agrees. So the edit falls between August 12 and September 9, 2026, and the Department's own record of when the page last changed places it on August 31, 2026."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-10-A006"],"on":"2026-09-10","outcome":"ak-electrician labelled the trainee certificate of fitness a 'Trainee level (optional path)' when the Mechanical Inspection Section states 'A state-issued Electrician and Power Lineman Trainee COF is required to earn hours towards a Journeyman COF' - the record already contradicted itself, because its exemptions field said trainees hold their own certificate. I relabelled the entry 'Trainee certificate (required to accrue Alaska hours)' and rewrote its value to state the requirement, the US Department of Labor indenture condition (8 AAC 90.165(b)), the Davis Bacon/RAPIDS submission step, the six-year term (AS 18.62.020(a)) and renewal on continued indenture (8 AAC 90.180(c)), the two-trainees-per-journeyman job-site ratio (8 AAC 90.165(c)), and the Alaska-hours qualifier with the 8 AAC 90.160(d)-(e) substitutions; and I added the geographic point to exemptions, that a state COF is required 'in all parts of Alaska' even where Anchorage does the inspecting. Verified live on 2026-09-10: labor.alaska.gov/lss/mihome.htm returned returned the page and carries both new electrical sentences verbatim, plus the plumbing contrast ('communities with populations of 2,500 and above', 'other than small communities as noted above'); the Certificate of Fitness Information Packet (labor.alaska.gov/lss/forms/cof-regs.pdf, returned the page, %PDF-1.7, still 'Version 20250715') was re-read and every regulation and statute quoted above was taken from its text, not from memory. Two of the candidate's citations were corrected against that read: the six-year term comes from AS 18.62.020(a), not 8 AAC 90.180(c), and the military/vocational hours come from the packet's own FAQ, not from 8 AAC 90.160.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Labor Standards and Safety, Mechanical Inspection Section","url":"https://labor.alaska.gov/lss/mihome.htm"},"summary":"The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development's Mechanical Inspection Section added a requirement sentence to each of its five programs. The two on electrical work state that a state-issued certificate of fitness is required to perform construction work subject to the National Electrical Code in all parts of Alaska, and that an Electrician and Power Lineman Trainee certificate of fitness is required to earn hours toward a journeyman certificate. Neither sentence was on the page on August 12, 2026; both were there on September 9, 2026, and the Department's own record of when the page last changed gives August 31, 2026.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ak-2026-08-31-mi-cof-statewide-and-trainee-required-for-hours","who_is_affected":"Two groups, and the second is the one that can lose years. First, anyone doing code-covered electrical construction anywhere in Alaska, including inside the Municipality of Anchorage: the Municipality does the inspecting under a memorandum of agreement, but the Department says the state certificate is still required in all parts of Alaska. Who inspects the work and who certifies the worker are different questions. Second, apprentices. The trainee certificate is not a convenience - it is what makes Alaska hours countable toward the 8,000 needed for an Electrician Journeyman certificate or the 4,000 for a Residential Wireman. Getting one requires indenture in a United States Department of Labor registered apprenticeship program, and the Department asks for a Davis Bacon Letter from the RAPIDS system with the application. Hours earned under another state's credential still count on their own terms, as do the classroom, apprenticeship, military and vocational substitutions the regulations allow, so the requirement bites on hours worked in Alaska."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ok-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/ok-electrician/"},{"id":"ok-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/ok-hvac/"}],"after":"An alert on the electrical industry page reads 'Please see 2027 Proposed Amendments to Administrative Rules with Required Filings' and links to the Board's Rules/Laws page, which states: 'Public comments on the 2027 Administrative Rules will be accepted by phone, in person, or by email at stephanieb@cib.ok.gov through September 18, 2026, at 4:30 p.m. A public hearing on the 2027 Administrative Rules will be held on September 23, 2026, at 1:30 p.m. in the CIB Board Room.' Eight per-chapter documents are posted, among them the Chapter 40 (electrical) and Chapter 50 (mechanical) proposals. Their Rule Impact Statements say the amendments are needed 'to update rules to reflect recent legislation, SB1732 and HB 3673' and that SB1732 requires 'a fee increase effective 7-1-2028'. The Board's own table gives the electrical figures as Apprentice $20.00 to $32.00, Journeyman initial $50.00 to $80.00, Journeyman renewal $75.00 to $120.00, Contractor initial $300.00 to $480.00 and Contractor renewal $200.00 to $320.00, with the mechanical figures identical; the Board notes 'there has been no increase to fees since 2009.' None of this is law yet: the proposals are open for comment, and the statutory fee change is dated July 1, 2028.","before":"The Board's electrical industry page carried no rulemaking notice, and the Board's Rules/Laws page listed only the permanent rules in force for each chapter.","credential":"Oklahoma Construction Industries Board electrical licenses and registrations (apprentice, journeyman, contractor) and mechanical licenses and registrations (apprentice, journeyman, contractor)","date":"2026-08-31","date_kind":"proposed","date_kind_label":"proposed — not in force","detected":"2026-08-31","detected_at":"https://oklahoma.gov/cib/your-industry/electrical.html","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Oklahoma's Construction Industries Board posted proposed 2027 rule amendments for the electrical and mechanical chapters - comments close September 18, 2026 and a public hearing is set for September 23","id":"ok-2026-08-31-cib-2027-rules-proposed","instrument":"Proposed amendments to Oklahoma Administrative Code Title 158, Chapter 40 (Electrical Industry Regulations) and Chapter 50 (Mechanical Industry Regulations), with Rule Impact Statements, implementing SB1732 and HB3673 (59 O.S. 1000.4, 1681, 1850.3)","jurisdiction":"Oklahoma","occupations":["electrician","hvac"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-08-24 capture of the Board's electrical industry page has no alert; the 2026-08-31 capture opens with the banner text verbatim. Both per-chapter documents were read directly on 2026-09-02 and confirmed as genuine PDFs, and the notice, the comment deadline and the hearing date were re-read on the Board's Rules/Laws page the same day."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed. The Oklahoma Construction Industries Board's 2027 proposals (electrical and mechanical chapters, fee increases effective July 1, 2028 under SB 1732) are proposed only; comments close September 18 and the hearing is September 23, 2026. ok-electrician and ok-hvac state the current fees.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Oklahoma Construction Industries Board","url":"https://oklahoma.gov/cib/rules-and-laws.html"},"summary":"The Construction Industries Board has published proposed 2027 amendments to Title 158 of the Oklahoma Administrative Code, including Chapter 40 (Electrical Industry Regulations) and Chapter 50 (Mechanical Industry Regulations). The proposals implement SB1732, which raises electrical and mechanical licensing fees effective July 1, 2028, and HB3673 on license renewals; the amendments strike the dollar figures out of the rules and point readers to the statute instead. Public comment is open through September 18, 2026 at 4:30 p.m., with a public hearing on September 23, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. Nothing is adopted and no fee has changed yet.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ok-2026-08-31-cib-2027-rules-proposed","who_is_affected":"Anyone holding or applying for an Oklahoma electrical or mechanical apprentice registration, journeyman license or contractor license, plus continuing-education providers. Two separate things to act on: comment or attend if you want to be heard, by September 18 and September 23, 2026 respectively; and budget for the higher license fees the Legislature set for July 1, 2028, printed in the Board's own impact statements. Fees payable today are unchanged."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"mo-cna","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/cna/mo-cna/"}],"after":"The section carries a new subsection 6: 'In lieu of any inspection required by sections 198.003 to 198.186 or sections 198.525 to 198.528 for residential care facilities and assisted living facilities, the department may accept, in whole or in part, written reports of the survey of any state or federal agency, or of any professional accrediting agency, if such survey is: (a) Comparable in scope and method to the department's surveys; and (b) Conducted in accordance with Title XVIII of the Social Security Act.' Losing accredited status returns the facility to inspection under section 198.525; the accreditation report must be given to the department for publication under section 198.030; complaints or reports of suspected abuse or neglect made to the accrediting entity must be forwarded to the department under section 198.070; and a facility exempted from an annual inspection that violates a class I standard is still subject to a full state survey. The catchline now ends 'compliance history may be requested - written reports accepted, when.'","before":"The version of section 198.022 in force until August 28, 2026 ended at subsection 5, which lets the department request five years of out-of-state compliance history from an operator not previously licensed in Missouri. It contained no provision allowing another body's survey to stand in for a departmental inspection. That version, stamped '198.022 8/28/2022', was still published alongside the amended text as late as August 25, 2026.","credential":"Missouri long-term care facility license (residential care facility and assisted living facility) issued by the Department of Health and Senior Services under the Omnibus Nursing Home Act - not the certified nurse assistant credential","date":"2026-08-28","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-08-31","detected_at":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/ViewChapter.aspx?chapter=198","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Missouri may now accept an accreditation survey instead of its own inspection of a residential care or assisted living facility - section 198.022, RSMo, as amended, took effect August 28, 2026","id":"mo-2026-08-28-rsmo-198-022-accreditation-survey-in-lieu-of-inspection","instrument":"Section 198.022, RSMo, as amended by 2026 H.B. 2372 (new subsection 6)","jurisdiction":"Missouri","occupations":["residential care facility operator","assisted living facility operator"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-08-25 capture of chapter 198 carries BOTH texts of section 198.022 - the amended one stamped 8/28/2026 and the superseded one stamped 8/28/2022 - so the amendment can be diffed against the law it replaced without relying on any outside summary. The 2026-08-31 capture carries only the amended text. A direct live re-fetch on 2026-09-02 returned 280,012 characters matching the later capture."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed. mo-cna cites Chapter 198 for the nursing-assistant training provisions in section 198.082, which H.B. 2372 did not amend; the new section 198.022 subsection 6 concerns accreditation surveys of residential care and assisted living facilities and touches nothing the page states.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Missouri Revisor of Statutes","url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/ViewChapter.aspx?chapter=198"},"summary":"Missouri's 2026 House Bill 2372 added a new subsection 6 to section 198.022, RSMo, letting the Department of Health and Senior Services accept, in whole or in part, written survey reports from another state or federal agency or from a professional accrediting agency in lieu of an inspection of a residential care facility or an assisted living facility, provided the survey is comparable in scope and method and is conducted in accordance with Title XVIII of the Social Security Act. The amended section took effect August 28, 2026, and the Revisor of Statutes has now retired the earlier version.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#mo-2026-08-28-rsmo-198-022-accreditation-survey-in-lieu-of-inspection","who_is_affected":"Operators of Missouri residential care facilities and assisted living facilities, and the accrediting bodies whose surveys they rely on. Nothing here changes any requirement for a certified nurse assistant: training, testing, registry listing and renewal continue to sit in section 198.082, RSMo and in 19 CSR 30-84.010, neither of which was touched."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"nv-contractor","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/contractor/nv-contractor/"},{"id":"nv-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/nv-electrician/"},{"id":"nv-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/nv-hvac/"}],"after":"The board has published an industry bulletin and survey stating that it 'is seeking input from small businesses regarding the potential economic impact of proposed amendments to NAC 624.130, which would affect contractor renewal fees' and that it 'is proposing to raise license renewal fees no more than $150.00 per year for each license.' Completed surveys are due 'no later than 4:00 p.m. on September 3, 2026', by email, mail or in person at the Las Vegas or Reno office, with the questionnaire hosted online. This is the economic-impact step the Administrative Procedure Act requires before rulemaking; no amended text has been published, no hearing has been noticed, and the fee in NAC 624.130 is unchanged.","before":"NAC 624.130 charges '$600 to issue or renew a license', a figure the board says has not been raised in more than 25 years, and licenses run two years under NRS 624.283(1).","credential":"Nevada State Contractors Board licenses in every classification, including C-2 electrical contracting and the mechanical classifications - the renewal fee in NAC 624.130 applies to all of them","date":"2026-08-27","date_kind":"proposed","date_kind_label":"proposed — not in force","detected":"2026-08-31","detected_at":"https://nvcontractorsboard.com/how-to-become-a-licensed-contractor/","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Nevada's State Contractors Board is proposing to raise contractor license renewal fees by up to $150 a year - small-business responses close 4:00 p.m. September 3, 2026","id":"nv-2026-08-27-nac-624-130-renewal-fee-proposed","instrument":"Proposed amendments to NAC 624.130 (Fees), at the small-business economic impact stage required by NRS Chapter 233B","jurisdiction":"Nevada","occupations":["electrician","hvac","contractor"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"board-bulletin","note":"The bulletin is dated 27 August 2026 in the board's own '2026 Industry Bulletins' listing and its attached survey is a genuine one-page PDF read on 2026-09-02. The current fee it would amend was confirmed the same day against NAC 624.130 on the Nevada Legislature's site, which reads 'To issue or renew a license .... 600'. An earlier bulletin under the same title is dated 21 August 2026 and was not opened."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed. The Nevada State Contractors Board is at the pre-rulemaking stage (small-business impact survey) on renewal-fee increases of up to $150 per year; NAC 624.130 is unchanged and our Nevada pages state the current fee. Re-read when a notice of adoption is posted.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Nevada State Contractors Board","url":"https://www.nvcontractorsboard.com/small-business-impact-survey-proposed-amendments-to-nac-624-130-nevada-state-contractors-board-2/"},"summary":"The Nevada State Contractors Board has issued a small-business impact survey on proposed amendments to NAC 624.130, the rule that sets its fees. The board says it 'is proposing to raise license renewal fees no more than $150.00 per year for each license', after more than 25 years without an increase. The rule currently charges $600 to issue or renew a license, and Nevada contractor licenses run two years. The survey is a required step before rulemaking under NRS Chapter 233B; responses are due by 4:00 p.m. on September 3, 2026. Nothing is adopted and no fee has changed.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#nv-2026-08-27-nac-624-130-renewal-fee-proposed","who_is_affected":"Every holder of a Nevada contractor license, in any classification - electrical (C-2), mechanical, general building and the rest - since NAC 624.130's issue-or-renew fee is charged across all of them. If you run a small contracting business, the survey is your chance to be counted before the rule is drafted, and it closes at 4:00 p.m. on September 3, 2026. If you are budgeting a renewal, note that today's fee is unchanged and the board has published only a ceiling on the increase it is considering, not a new figure."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"nh-food-handler","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/food-handler/nh-food-handler/"}],"after":"The readopted He-P 2303.02(a) lists twenty categories and ends 'or (20) Category I-1, food pantries.' The licensing-category table in the readopted He-P 2304.04 carries the matching 'Class I, Category I-1, food pantries'. Everything else in He-P 2303.02 is carried over, with 'food establishment' rewritten as 'food service establishment or retail food store'.","before":"He-P 2303.02(a) listed nineteen establishment categories exempt from the certified food protection manager requirement, ending at 'Category G-8, food processing plants that manufacturer or package non-TCS food.' That version was in force from August 5, 2022.","credential":"New Hampshire certified food protection manager - the manager-level, one-per-establishment credential that is the state's only statewide food personnel requirement; there is no individual food handler card","date":"2026-08-25","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"New Hampshire exempted food pantries from its food protection manager requirement when it readopted He-P 2300 on August 25, 2026","id":"nh-2026-08-25-he-p-2300-food-pantries-exempt","instrument":"New Hampshire adopted rule #14678 (Notice NN 2026-107), readopting with amendment He-P 2301.01, 2303.02, 2304.01, 2304.04, 2304.05, 2304.12, 2310.01 and 2311.01 through 2311.06","jurisdiction":"New Hampshire","occupations":["food-handler","food-manager"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"rule","note":"The state's online chapter text for He-P 2300, read on 2026-09-02, still carries the nineteen-item list with the source line '#12852, eff 8-20-19; ss by #13428, eff 8-5-22' - the version in force before this readoption. The adopted-rule document itself is stamped '#14678 (eff 8-25-26)' on every page and prints the twenty-item list in full, which is what the two versions were compared on."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-02-A014"],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"Corrected the same day. nh-food-handler's list of categories exempt from the manager-certification requirement now carries all twenty categories of He-P 2303.02(a) as readopted August 25, 2026, including the new 'Category I-1, food pantries', with the nineteen-item history dated; the adopted-rule filing is cited alongside the online chapter, which still served the old text.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"New Hampshire Office of Legislative Services, Administrative Rules","url":"https://gc.nh.gov/rules/adoptions/adoptions/Effective%20Adopted%20Rules%20as%20Filed%20-%20Awaiting%20Certification/14678%20%28NN%202026-107%29%20Sanitary%20Production%20and%20Distribution%20of%20Food%20He-P%202300%20various%20eff%208-25-26.pdf"},"summary":"Adopted rule #14678 readopts nine provisions of He-P 2300, Sanitary Production and Distribution of Food. The list of establishment categories exempt from the certified food protection manager requirement in He-P 2303.02(a) grows from nineteen categories to twenty, adding 'Category I-1, food pantries'. The chapter still incorporates the 2017 FDA Food Code, and the 45-day, 90-day and five-or-fewer-employee provisions are carried over unchanged. New Hampshire still has no individual food handler card.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#nh-2026-08-25-he-p-2300-food-pantries-exempt","who_is_affected":"New Hampshire food pantries, which no longer need a certified food protection manager on staff. Every other licensed food service establishment or retail food store is where it was: at least one certified food protection manager, within 45 days of the initial licensing inspection, 90 days to replace one who leaves, and only one required where five or fewer food employees are on duty. No individual worker gains or loses a credential, because New Hampshire issues no food handler card."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ca-contractor","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/contractor/ca-contractor/"}],"after":"The bulletin states: 'CSLB is pleased to announce that its online sole owner license application is now available for applicants to complete and submit electronically... One key feature is the ability for applicants to pay for their application online. Please note there is a 2.3% fee for paying through this method.' and 'This online application is only for sole owner applications applying for their original contractor license. This form should not be used for an existing license looking to add a classification or replace the qualifying individual.' The application landing page puts it as: 'Non-refundable application fee of $450 due as well as a 2.3% fee added by the credit card company when this form is submitted online.'","before":"An original contractor license application had to be completed on the board's downloadable Application for Original Contractor License, form 13A-1, and submitted to the board with payment; the board published no online application for it.","credential":"California contractor license issued by the Contractors State License Board - the original license application for a sole owner, in any A, B, B-2 or C classification","date":"2026-08-24","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"California opened an online contractor license application for sole owners on August 24, 2026, with a 2.3% card fee for paying online","id":"ca-2026-08-24-cslb-online-sole-owner-application","instrument":"CSLB Industry Bulletin 26-04, August 24, 2026, and the board's 'Apply for a Sole Owner license' application landing page. Operational: no fee regulation, statute or licensing requirement was amended.","jurisdiction":"California","occupations":["contractor"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"board-publication","note":"The board's 2026 bulletin index lists the announcement as the most recent entry, dated 8/24/2026, above 'Additional Resources for Contractors Managing Treated Wood Waste' of 7/9/2026. The bulletin document carries the reference 'CSLB #26-04' beside its date, and the 2.3% figure is repeated independently on the board's own application landing page, so the fee is corroborated by two board publications rather than by the announcement alone."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed. ca-contractor directs readers to CSLB's official application page and quotes CSLB's own fees, which the bulletin does not change; the new online sole-owner application and its 2.3% card-processing charge are published here as reader-relevant information.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"California Contractors State License Board (Department of Consumer Affairs)","url":"https://www.cslb.ca.gov/Resources/IndustryBulletins/2026/Online%20Sole%20Owner%20App.FINAL.pdf"},"summary":"The Contractors State License Board announced in Industry Bulletin 26-04 that sole owners applying for an original contractor license can now complete and submit the application electronically and pay for it online. The board states a 2.3% fee is added by the credit card company on that payment route. The online form is limited to sole owners seeking an original license; the existing downloadable application remains the route for every other entity type.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ca-2026-08-24-cslb-online-sole-owner-application","who_is_affected":"Anyone applying for a California contractor license as a sole owner. It is an added option, not a replacement: the $450 application fee and the $200 initial license fee are unchanged, the board's published totals are unchanged, and the downloadable form remains the route for partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies and joint ventures, and for anyone adding a classification or replacing a qualifying individual. The 2.3% is charged by the card processor only if the applicant pays online, so it is avoidable by using the paper route. Applicants are pointed to the frequently asked questions on the application landing page before starting."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"nh-cna","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/cna/nh-cna/"}],"after":"The same line reads \"Nur 608 - Nurse Externs - Effective August 24, 2026\". Everything else on the page is unchanged, including \"Nur 700 - Nursing Assistants - Public comment period closed March 5, 2026\" under Proposed Rules.","before":"The Board listed the rule under Recently Adopted Rules without a date: \"Nur 608 - Nurse Externs - Effective\".","credential":"Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) - New Hampshire's name for the certified nursing assistant credential, licensed by the Board of Nursing under RSA 326-B","date":"2026-08-24","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-08-31","detected_at":"https://www.oplc.nh.gov/board-nursing-laws-and-rules","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"New Hampshire's Board of Nursing adopted its nurse-extern rule effective August 24, 2026 - and the nursing-assistant chapter everyone is waiting on is still only proposed","id":"nh-2026-08-24-nur-608-nurse-externs","instrument":"N.H. Code Admin. R. Nur 608, Nurse Externs, adopted effective August 24, 2026 (Chapter Nur 600, nursing education). Related and NOT adopted: Nur 700, Nursing Assistants, proposed with comment closed March 5, 2026; Nur 400, Continued Status, proposed with comment closed April 30, 2026.","jurisdiction":"New Hampshire","occupations":["cna"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-08-25 capture of the Board's laws-and-rules page ends the Nur 608 line at the word \"Effective\"; the 2026-08-31 capture completes it with \"August 24, 2026\". That sixteen-character insertion is the only difference between the two captures. The effective date rests on this one official source: New Hampshire's General Court rules site, where the filed rule would provide independent confirmation, refuses connections from our vantage, so no second source was obtainable."},"review":{"on":"2026-09-01","outcome":"Read directly from the Board's own laws-and-rules page on 2026-09-01; the text returned is identical to the copy we held when the change was detected. Scope checked deliberately, because the rule number is easy to misread as a nursing-assistant rule: Nur 608 belongs to Chapter Nur 600, nursing education, while nursing assistants are Chapter Nur 700, which the same page still lists as proposed. NO LICENSINGATLAS PAGE WAS FALSIFIED - nh-cna already named Nur 608 and its August 24, 2026 effective date, correctly scoped to nurse externs, and already recorded Nur 700 as expired April 14, 2024 with readoption proposed November 20, 2025.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"New Hampshire Office of Professional Licensure and Certification, Board of Nursing","url":"https://www.oplc.nh.gov/board-nursing-laws-and-rules"},"summary":"The Board of Nursing's laws-and-rules page now lists Nur 608, Nurse Externs, as a recently adopted rule effective August 24, 2026; Chapter Nur 700, Nursing Assistants - the chapter that governs the Licensed Nursing Assistant credential - remains under Proposed Rules with its public comment period closed since March 5, 2026.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#nh-2026-08-24-nur-608-nurse-externs","who_is_affected":"Nursing students working as nurse externs in New Hampshire, and the facilities that employ them - not Licensed Nursing Assistants. Nur 608 sits in the Board's nursing-education chapter and governs a status distinct from the LNA license. Nothing about becoming, renewing or reinstating an LNA changed: the continuing-education duty at Nur 403.02, the active-practice condition, the competency test and the fees all stand. The rule to watch for LNAs is Nur 700, which expired on April 14, 2024 and whose readoption has been proposed but not adopted."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"co-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/co-electrician/"},{"id":"co-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/co-hvac/"}],"after":"The same section now carries: 'Electrical Renewal is now open. Licenses expire on 9/30/2026 and can be renewed through 11/30/2026. Select this box to access the DPO Online Services Renewal System.' The banner appeared between the Aug 17 and Aug 24 sweeps and was re-confirmed on the live page 2026-08-27.","before":"The board homepage's Continuing Education section ended at the CE calendar link with no renewal notice (as the page stood on August 17, 2026).","credential":"Colorado electrician licenses (Residential Wireman, Journeyman Electrician, Master Electrician) - the triennial license period ends 9/30/2026","date":"2026-08-24","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-08-24","detected_at":"https://dpo.colorado.gov/Electrical","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Colorado's Electrical Board opened the 2026 renewal window - all electrical licenses expire September 30, 2026 and can be renewed through November 30, 2026","id":"co-2026-08-24-electrical-renewal-window-open","instrument":"Colorado State Electrical Board homepage renewal notice (operational; the underlying renewal and grace-period rule is 3 CCR 710-1, Rule 1.13, promulgated under 12-115-110, C.R.S.)","jurisdiction":"Colorado","occupations":["electrician","hvac"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-08-17 capture of the board homepage has no renewal notice; the 2026-08-24 capture carries the banner verbatim. A direct live re-fetch on 2026-08-27 confirms the banner is serving; note the page serves a ~555-char shell to some non-US automated clients and a render without the banner via one proxy renderer - the direct US-vantage capture and the impersonated fetch agree."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-08-27","outcome":"No correction needed. co-electrician states the triennial cycle and the 60-day post-expiration grace with delinquency fee (3 CCR 710-1, Rule 1.13) without asserting specific calendar dates, and the banner's dates are consistent with those facts (expiration 9/30/2026, renewal through 11/30/2026). The event is published as reader-relevant, dated, operational information. If a future banner shows a window inconsistent with the stated 60-day grace, the renewal section of the Colorado electrician page reopens.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Colorado Division of Professions and Occupations (Department of Regulatory Agencies)","url":"https://dpo.colorado.gov/Electrical"},"summary":"The State Electrical Board added a renewal banner to its homepage: 'Electrical Renewal is now open. Licenses expire on 9/30/2026 and can be renewed through 11/30/2026', pointing licensees to the DPO Online Services Renewal System.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#co-2026-08-24-electrical-renewal-window-open","who_is_affected":"Every actively licensed Colorado Residential Wireman, Journeyman and Master Electrician: renewal is open now, all licenses expire 9/30/2026, and the renewal system accepts renewals through 11/30/2026 (the post-expiration span matching Rule 1.13's 60-day grace period, during which a delinquency fee applies). HVAC contractors who hold Colorado electrical licenses for their electrical work are on the same clock."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ne-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/ne-electrician/"}],"after":"The exam page states that the examination 'will cover, but is not limited to the following: National Electrical Code - 2023, Basic Electricity - Theory, Nebraska State Electrical Act, Emergency Circuits - Including Fire Alarm Circuits'. Neither the exam page nor the apprentice page any longer tells holders of an expired apprentice card to apply on paper. The reciprocal page now gives the division's online application portal address in place of the mail-only sentence, with the mail-in form still linked beside it.","before":"The exam page stated that the examination 'will cover, but is not limited to the following: National Electrical Code - 2023, Basic Electricity - Theory, Nebraska State Electrical Act, Blueprint Reading, Emergency Circuits - Including Fire Alarm Circuits'. The same page carried 'Reminder: if your Apprentice Card is expired, please use the mail-in application', the apprentice page carried 'IF YOU HAD PREVIOUSLY HELD AN APPRENTICE CARD THAT HAS EXPIRED, YOU WILL NEED TO PRINT OFF THE APPLICATION AND MAIL IT IN', and the reciprocal page stated 'All reciprocal applications must be mailed in with the proper fees.'","credential":"Nebraska state electrician licenses and apprentice registration issued by the State Electrical Board - journeyman, residential wireman, electrical contractor, the specialty licenses, and apprentice registration","date":"2026-08-24","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-08-24","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Nebraska dropped blueprint reading from its published electrician exam outline and opened online filing for reciprocal and expired-apprentice applications","id":"ne-2026-08-nsed-exam-outline-and-online-filing","instrument":"Nebraska State Electrical Division published pages: Exam Information and Licensing Applications, Apprentice Electrician, and Reciprocal Information. Operational: no statute or administrative rule was amended, and the division published no notice explaining the change.","jurisdiction":"Nebraska","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"page-capture","note":"Three of the division's pages were rewritten in the same week, which is what distinguishes this from an editing slip on one page: the exam page and the apprentice page both lost the instruction to file on paper after an apprentice card expires, and the reciprocal page swapped its mail-only sentence for the portal address. All three changes were still in place when the pages were read again on September 5, 2026. The division publishes no revision date on these pages and no announcement of the change, and no archived copy of the exam page exists after May 2026, so the earlier wording survives only in the weekly captures taken on July 20 and August 24, 2026."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-05-A008"],"on":"2026-09-05","outcome":"Corrected the same day: ne-electrician listed Blueprint Reading among the examination topics in three places and the division's outline no longer includes it; the topic was removed (ledger D-2026-09-05-A008). No 'no longer examined' claim was added, because the division's list is expressly not exhaustive. The online filing route for reciprocal and expired-apprentice applications is recorded here; the page continues to point applicants to the division's application page.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Nebraska State Electrical Division","url":"https://electrical.nebraska.gov/exam-information-and-licensing-applications"},"summary":"The Nebraska State Electrical Division rewrote its exam and application pages in August 2026. The published list of what the licensing examination covers went from five topics to four: blueprint reading is no longer named. At the same time the division removed its instructions that an expired apprentice card had to be re-applied for on paper, and replaced 'All reciprocal applications must be mailed in with the proper fees' with a link to its online application portal. The mail-in forms remain available alongside the online route.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ne-2026-08-nsed-exam-outline-and-online-filing","who_is_affected":"Anyone preparing for a Nebraska electrician examination, anyone whose apprentice registration has lapsed, and anyone applying to Nebraska by reciprocity. Two limits are worth stating. First, the division's own sentence says the examination 'is not limited to' the topics listed, so a shorter list is not a promise that blueprint reading will not appear - it is what the division now publishes. Second, the change to the outline is undated: the division published no notice, and the only fixed points are that the longer list was still up on July 20, 2026 and the shorter one was up by August 24, 2026. Fees were not touched: apprentice registration remains $35.00 in an even-numbered year and $70.00 in an odd-numbered year, and the site's note about April 1, 2026 fee increases refers to permit fees."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"nm-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/nm-electrician/"},{"id":"nm-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/nm-hvac/"}],"after":"The notice reads: 'RECIPROCAL JOURNEYMAN IN NEW MEXICO  The Construction Industries Division is experiencing an influx in inquiries regarding reciprocal journeyman certificates. The only journeyman classification reciprocated in New Mexico is EE-98J, residential and commercial electrical with 8,000 hours of experience. EE-98J reciprocity is accepted from Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming. To apply for journeyman reciprocity, you must submit the application for journeyman certificate with a copy of your license from the reciprocal state and $75 to PSI. Forms can be found on PSI's website.'","before":"The division published its journeyman reciprocity terms only on its Continuing Education page, under the Electrical heading: 'New Mexico has reciprocal licensing agreements, for a journeyman certificate/license only, with the following states: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming', with the filing described as 'a completed State of New Mexico Application for Journeyman Certificate, the nonrefundable application processing fee, and a copy of their qualifying certificate/license'. It did not say anywhere that electrical was the only trade covered, and it did not give the fee as a figure in that instruction.","credential":"New Mexico journeyman certificate of competence issued by the Regulation and Licensing Department's Construction Industries Division - specifically the EE-98J residential and commercial electrical journeyman certificate, and by exclusion the mechanical journeyman certificates such as JR refrigeration and JSM sheet metal","date":"2026-08-24","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-08-24","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"New Mexico says electrical is the only trade with journeyman reciprocity - and names the ten states and the $75 filing","id":"nm-2026-08-24-cid-reciprocal-journeyman-ee98j-notice","instrument":"A notice published by the Construction Industries Division on its Apply for a Construction Industries License page, its division home page and its Electrical Bureau page. Informational: no rule of 14.6 NMAC and no section of the Construction Industries Licensing Act was amended by it.","jurisdiction":"New Mexico","occupations":["electrician","hvac"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"board-publication","note":"The ten-state list is not new. The division's Continuing Education page has carried it, in the same order, as 'reciprocal licensing agreements, for a journeyman certificate/license only'. The classification code is set by rule: 14.6.6 NMAC provides 'C. Journeyman classifications. (1) EE-98J. Journeyman residential and commercial electrical. Requires four years' experience.' The fee matches the division's published schedule, 'All Journeyman Certificate Fees - $75.00'. Three separate division publications therefore corroborate the notice, which is why it is recorded as a clarification the division chose to publish rather than as a change in what New Mexico requires."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-05","outcome":"No correction needed. nm-hvac already stated that New Mexico's published reciprocity covers the electrical journeyman only; nm-electrician now carries the division's own statement — EE-98J is the only reciprocated journeyman classification, the ten states, and the $75 filing with the journeyman application — with the experience figure attributed to both instruments where they differ (the notice says 8,000 hours; the classification rule says four years).","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, Construction Industries Division","url":"https://www.rld.nm.gov/construction-industries/find-a-bureau/bureaus/electrical-bureau/"},"summary":"The Construction Industries Division has posted a notice across its licensing pages stating that EE-98J, residential and commercial electrical, is the only journeyman classification New Mexico reciprocates, that it accepts EE-98J reciprocity from ten named states, and that an applicant files the journeyman certificate application with a copy of the out-of-state license and $75 to PSI. The division says it is answering a rise in enquiries. No rule was amended: the ten-state list and the $75 certificate fee were already published elsewhere on the division's site, and EE-98J is defined in the classification rule. What is new is that the division states plainly, in one place, that the pathway is limited to the electrical trade.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#nm-2026-08-24-cid-reciprocal-journeyman-ee98j-notice","who_is_affected":"Journeymen licensed in another state who want to work in New Mexico. For electricians holding a journeyman certificate in one of the ten named states, the notice is a route: file the New Mexico journeyman certificate application, attach a copy of the out-of-state license, pay $75 to PSI. For everyone else it is a closed door stated out loud - a plumbing, mechanical or refrigeration journeyman from another state has no reciprocal pathway and takes the ordinary experience-and-examination route. Nothing here changes what a New Mexico journeyman certificate costs or requires: the classification rule already sets EE-98J at four years' experience, which the notice expresses as 8,000 hours, and the division's fee page already lists all journeyman certificate fees at $75.00."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"fl-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/fl-hvac/"}],"after":"The current edition is the 2026 Florida Statutes. Section 455.213 has no subsection (16); its history line now ends 's. 29, ch. 2025-156; s. 10, ch. 2026-13'. Section 489.105 adds '(20) \"Subcontractor\" has the same meaning as in s. 558.002. (21) \"Supplier\" has the same meaning as in s. 558.002.', and its history line now ends 's. 1, ch. 2025-40; s. 18, ch. 2026-3'. Section 489.117 replaces 'record making' with 'recordmaking' in its fee sentence. Sections 489.103, 489.111, 489.113 and 489.115 are unchanged.","before":"The current edition was the 2025 Florida Statutes. Section 455.213 ended with subsection (16): 'For the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 fiscal years, the department shall waive 50 percent of the initial licensing fee for an applicant applying for an initial license for a profession under this chapter, with such waiver limited to a maximum of $200 per year per license. The department shall waive 50 percent of a licensee's license renewal fee for a profession under this chapter, with such waiver limited to a maximum of $200 per year per license.' Section 489.105's definitions ran to (19) 'Initial issuance'.","credential":"Florida certified and registered air-conditioning contractor licenses issued by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation through the Construction Industry Licensing Board","date":"2026-08-24","date_kind":"version-expired","date_kind_label":"statute version expired","detected":"2026-08-24","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Florida published its 2026 statutes in August 2026, dropping a lapsed licensing-fee waiver from chapter 455 and adding two definitions to the contracting chapter","id":"fl-2026-08-24-2026-statutes-edition-455-213-489-105","instrument":"The 2026 edition of the Florida Statutes, chapters 455 and 489. The two textual changes carry the history citations s. 10, ch. 2026-13 (455.213) and s. 18, ch. 2026-3 (489.105).","jurisdiction":"Florida","occupations":["hvac"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-08-10 capture of all seven cited sections still showed the 2025 edition's quick-link labels; the 2026-08-24 capture showed 2026 on every one of them, which brackets the publication to that fortnight. Both editions of each section were then read side by side on 2026-09-05 at their permanent addresses, and the two textual differences were confirmed against the sections' own history lines."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-10-A014"],"on":"2026-09-10","outcome":"All eight flsenate.gov citations on fl-hvac (455.213, 489.103, 489.105, 489.111, 489.113, 489.115, 489.117, Chapter489/PART_I; 15 links) re-pinned from the 2025 to the 2026 edition. Each 2026 URL was opened on 2026-09-10 and returned the section text; the judge's Sept-5 read established the quoted text of all seven sections and Part I is identical across editions. No sentence rewritten; the page keeps its last-verified date of July 22, 2026, because the sections were not re-read in full today.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"The Florida Senate","url":"https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2026/455.213"},"summary":"The Florida Senate's statute site rolled from the 2025 edition to the 2026 edition between August 10 and August 24, 2026. Two of the sections behind Florida air-conditioning contractor licensing changed. Section 455.213 lost subsection (16), a 50 percent licensing-fee waiver that applied only to the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 fiscal years and had already lapsed by its own terms. Section 489.105 gained definitions of 'Subcontractor' and 'Supplier'. The military-veteran fee waiver at 455.213(13), the Class A and Class B scope definitions, the examination and registration provisions and the insurance and fingerprint requirements are unchanged word for word.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#fl-2026-08-24-2026-statutes-edition-455-213-489-105","who_is_affected":"Anyone applying for or holding a Florida air-conditioning contractor certificate or registration, and anyone reading Florida contracting law generally. Nothing an applicant pays or must do has changed: the deleted fee waiver covered two fiscal years that ended before this edition and could not be claimed today, and the veteran fee waiver at 455.213(13), which does still apply, is untouched. The two new definitions matter to anyone reading chapter 489's rules about subcontractors and suppliers, which now borrow their meanings from section 558.002. Readers following a link to a year-numbered statute page should check the year in the address: the Florida Senate keeps each edition at its own permanent address and shows no warning that an older one has been superseded."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"or-cna","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/cna/or-cna/"}],"after":"OAR 851-002-0040(9) reads 'Surcharge to Support the Workforce Data Analysis Fund at Renewal - $8', so a two-year CNA renewal comes to $68. The Board's filing notice explains the driver: the Oregon Health Authority is raising the health care workforce reporting fee 'from $2 per license year to $4 per license year', and states the effect on licensees as '$2 per year more for renewing their license'.","before":"OAR 851-002-0040(9) read 'Surcharge to Support the Workforce Data Analysis Fund at Renewal - $4', so a two-year CNA renewal came to $64 - the $60 renewal fee plus $4.","credential":"Oregon Nursing Assistant certificate (CNA) renewal, and Oregon RN and LPN license renewal under the parallel schedule","date":"2026-08-22","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Oregon doubled the workforce data surcharge on nursing and nursing assistant renewals from $4 to $8, effective August 22, 2026","id":"or-2026-08-22-workforce-data-surcharge-8","instrument":"Permanent Administrative Order BN 3-2026, Oregon State Board of Nursing, amending OAR 851-002-0010 and 851-002-0040, implementing the Oregon Health Authority's amendment of OAR 409-026-0130 under ORS 676.410","jurisdiction":"Oregon","occupations":["cna"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"document","note":"The Board's own rule filing notice, filed 07/08/2026 with the Secretary of State and linked from its rulemaking page, carries the amendment in strike-and-insert form on both schedules and states the driver and the per-licensee effect. An Internet Archive capture of the chapter 851 fee division from 2025-11-23 shows the $4 figure, and our record's reading of 2026-08-16 shows $4 as well. Our first capture of this fee page is dated 2026-08-24, two days after the increase took effect, so it already reads $8 and no comparison against an earlier capture was possible."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-02-A011"],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"Corrected the same day. or-cna stated the $4 surcharge in three places; it now states $8 with the August 22, 2026 effective date and the pass-through reason, so an Oregon CNA renewal reads as $68.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Oregon Secretary of State, Oregon Administrative Rules Database (Oregon State Board of Nursing, chapter 851)","url":"https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=851-002-0040"},"summary":"Permanent Administrative Order BN 3-2026, filed August 21, 2026 and effective August 22, 2026, amends the Oregon State Board of Nursing's fee schedules so that item (9) of OAR 851-002-0040 (Nursing Assistant Schedule of Fees) now reads 'Surcharge to Support the Workforce Data Analysis Fund at Renewal - $8', up from $4; the nurse schedule at OAR 851-002-0010(4) moves the same way. The increase passes through the Oregon Health Authority's change to the health care workforce reporting fee, from $2 to $4 per license year, which the Authority attributes to program revenue not covering expenses since 2021. A two-year Oregon CNA renewal therefore now costs $68 rather than $64.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#or-2026-08-22-workforce-data-surcharge-8","who_is_affected":"Every Oregon CNA renewing a certificate on or after August 22, 2026, and every Oregon RN and LPN renewing under the parallel schedule. The surcharge is collected with the renewal fee, so there is no separate step - only a higher total. Anyone quoting $64 for an Oregon CNA renewal from a page written before late August 2026 is quoting the old figure."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"az-food-handler","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/food-handler/az-food-handler/"}],"after":"The county serves the same chapter as pages 148 to 150 of the consolidated Environmental Health Code, every page headed \"Maricopa County - Environmental Services Department - Rev 08/19/2026\" and carrying an accessibility notice. The per-regulation revision dates are gone. The regulatory text is unchanged: the 30-day deadline for a food employee to be trained; \"Each food establishment shall replace the Certified Food Protection Manager within ninety (90) days of separation\"; the manager test standard \"as described in the 2017 FDA Food Code, section 2-102.20\"; \"A Certified Food Protection Manager Certificate shall expire five (5) years from the date of successful completion of a Certified Food Protection Manager test\"; \"A certificate issued under paragraphs 2 and 3 of Regulation 4 shall expire three (3) years from the date of issue\"; the ASTM E2659-09 training standard; and Regulation 6's exemption of establishments serving only non-time/temperature-control foods from the manager requirement.","before":"The county served Chapter VII as a four-page standalone extract, its pages numbered 7-1 to 7-4, each page footer carrying that regulation's own revision date: \"R. 4-12-2017\", \"R. 10-6-2021\", \"R. 4-8-2015\".","credential":"Maricopa County Food Employee Certificate (the county food handler card) and the Certified Food Protection Manager certificate required of establishments","date":"2026-08-19","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-08-24","detected_at":"https://www.maricopa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/5475/Chapter-7---Food-Employees-Certified-Food-Protection-Managers","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Maricopa County reissued the food-employee chapter of its health code with an August 19, 2026 revision stamp - and did not change a word of what it requires","id":"az-2026-08-19-maricopa-health-code-reissue","instrument":"Maricopa County Environmental Health Code, Chapter VII (Food Employees / Certified Food Protection Managers), Regulations 1 to 6, as republished with revision stamp 08/19/2026","jurisdiction":"Maricopa County, Arizona","occupations":["food-handler"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-07-11 capture holds the standalone chapter with the per-page \"R.\" revision footers; the 2026-08-24 capture holds the consolidated version with the \"Rev 08/19/2026\" header. Comparing the two word by word, every difference falls into three groups: the footer-to-header swap, spacing changes from a change in how documents of this type are read, and one hyphen. The document's own embedded creation and modification date is August 20, 2026, which is what establishes that the file itself was regenerated rather than merely re-read."},"review":{"on":"2026-09-01","outcome":"The document was read directly from the county on 2026-09-01; the text returned matches the copy we held when the change was detected, exactly, so the county has not revised it again. Every operative clause was compared against the version we held before the reissue and none differs. NO LICENSINGATLAS PAGE WAS FALSIFIED: az-food-handler's five-year manager certificate and three-year employee certificate both re-check against the reissued text, and the page already keeps the two apart. Reported as a republication with no change to requirements, not as a rule change.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Maricopa County Environmental Services Department","url":"https://www.maricopa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/5475/Chapter-7---Food-Employees-Certified-Food-Protection-Managers"},"summary":"The county republished Chapter VII of the Maricopa County Environmental Health Code on August 20, 2026, stamped \"Rev 08/19/2026\", as pages 148 to 150 of a consolidated 211-page code rather than as a standalone chapter; the certified food protection manager rules, the certificate validity periods and the exemptions are identical, clause for clause, to the version published before it.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#az-2026-08-19-maricopa-health-code-reissue","who_is_affected":"Food employees and food establishments in Maricopa County, whose obligations are unchanged. This is published because a reader who opens the county's own document today sees an August 19, 2026 revision stamp on every page of a food-safety chapter and has no way to tell whether the rules moved. They did not. One limit is worth stating: the revision stamp belongs to the whole 211-page code, and only Chapter VII is verified here, so this event says nothing about the other chapters of the same reissue."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"mn-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/mn-electrician/"}],"after":"Quoting the Department: 'The Board of Electricity has adopted the 2026 National Electrical Code (NEC) with an effective date of Aug. 17, 2026.' Permits filed before August 17, 2026 'must comply with the 2023 NEC'; permits filed on or after that date 'must comply with the 2026 NEC'. Separately, 'Electrical licensing exams will transition to the 2026 NEC beginning Sept. 8, 2026.'","before":"Minnesota's electrical code was the 2023 National Electrical Code, and licensing exams were written to that edition.","credential":"Journeyworker, master and registered electrician licenses - code edition for exams and permits","date":"2026-08-17","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Minnesota moved to the 2026 NEC - permits since August 17, licensing exams from September 8","id":"mn-2026-08-17-2026-nec-adoption","instrument":"Minnesota Electrical Code - adoption of NFPA 70 (2026 National Electrical Code) by the Board of Electricity; Minn. R. ch. 1315 of the Minnesota State Building Code","jurisdiction":"Minnesota","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our offline capture of the same Department page from the 2026-08-10 crawl already carries all four sentences, including the September 8 exam date, so the dates were announced in advance rather than applied retroactively."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed - mn-electrician named no code edition. A dated note was added to the exam text: the 2026 NEC governs permits filed on or after Aug. 17, 2026 and licensing exams from Sept. 8, 2026, with the 2023 NEC applying before those dates; the DLI codes-and-standards page is now cited and monitored.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry - Board of Electricity","url":"https://www.dli.mn.gov/business/electrical-contractors/electrical-codes-and-standards"},"summary":"The Minnesota Board of Electricity adopted the 2026 National Electrical Code with an effective date of August 17, 2026. The Department of Labor and Industry states that electrical permits filed before that date must comply with the 2023 NEC and permits filed on or after it must comply with the 2026 NEC. The same notice sets a separate date for candidates: electrical licensing exams transition to the 2026 NEC beginning September 8, 2026, so exams taken before that day are still based on the 2023 edition. The Department has published a 2026 NEC FAQ, last revised August 24, 2026, and a 2026 residential inspection checklist, and has kept the 2023 checklist available.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#mn-2026-08-17-2026-nec-adoption","who_is_affected":"Anyone sitting a Minnesota journeyworker, master, or power-limited technician exam, whose test edition changes on September 8, 2026 - a candidate studying from a 2023 NEC codebook for a test on or after that date is studying the wrong edition. Also every electrician and electrical contractor pulling permits, for whom the 2026 NEC has already governed since August 17, 2026. Continuing-education hours are unaffected: Minnesota requires 12 of the 16 hours to relate to the National Electrical Code without naming an edition."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"co-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/co-hvac/"}],"after":"Rule 1.2 adopts 'the IPC, 2024 edition promulgated by the International Code Council 1st printing (June 2023)', 'the IRC, 2024 edition, promulgated by the International Code Council, 1st printing (May 2024)' and 'the IFGC, 2024 edition, promulgated by the International Code Council, 1st printing (October 2023)', and its IRC cross-references move with the new edition's numbering to Section R313.1 exceptions 1 and 2 and Section R326. The rule keeps its standing limit that the Colorado Plumbing Code and Colorado Fuel Gas Code 'do not include any later amendments to or editions of' the incorporated provisions.","before":"Rule 1.2 adopted 'the IPC, 2021 edition promulgated by the International Code Council 1st printing (March 2020)', 'the IRC, 2021 edition ... 1st printing (January 2021)' and 'the IFGC, 2021 edition ... 1st printing (August 2020)', and pointed at IRC Section R305.1 exceptions 1 and 2 and Section R306.","credential":"Colorado plumbing licenses issued by the State Plumbing Board under the Plumbing Practice Act, Title 12, Article 155, C.R.S. (Residential Plumber, Journeyworker Plumber, Master Plumber and plumbing contractor registration). The codes adopted in Rule 1.2 are the technical standard those licensees build to, and also govern the plumbing and fuel-gas portions of mechanical work performed by others.","date":"2026-08-14","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Colorado's plumbing and fuel-gas codes moved to the 2024 editions on August 14, 2026","id":"co-2026-08-14-plumbing-2024-code-editions","instrument":"3 CCR 720-1 PLUMBING RULES AND REGULATIONS, Rule 1.2 STANDARDS, as adopted by the Colorado State Plumbing Board; permanent rule published in the Colorado Register of July 25, 2026, Attorney General opinion July 13, 2026, effective August 14, 2026.","jurisdiction":"Colorado","occupations":["plumber","hvac"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"rule-text","note":"The superseded rule version, effective February 14, 2026, was read in full and carries the 2021 editions of the IPC, IFGC and IRC throughout Rule 1.2. The Board's own page had announced the predicate rulemaking hearing of June 24, 2026 on 'proposed revisions to Rule 1.2 - STANDARDS' whose purpose was 'to implement the new International Plumbing Code, Fuel Gas Code, and International Residential Code'. The adopted text, the Attorney General clearance date and the effective date all come from the Colorado Register issue of July 25, 2026."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed. co-hvac names no plumbing, fuel-gas or residential code edition. The State Plumbing Board's Rule 1.2 moved from the 2021 to the 2024 IPC, IFGC and IRC effective August 14, 2026 per the Colorado Register; the Secretary of State's rule-version page still showed the superseded rule as current nineteen days later.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Colorado Secretary of State, Code of Colorado Regulations (official publication of the state administrative rules under 24-4-103(11), C.R.S.), for the Department of Regulatory Agencies, Division of Professions and Occupations - State Plumbing Board","url":"https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/Upload/AGORequest/AdoptedRules02026-00212.docx"},"summary":"The Colorado State Plumbing Board adopted revisions to Rule 1.2 of 3 CCR 720-1 that replace the 2021 editions of the International Plumbing Code, International Fuel Gas Code and International Residential Code with the 2024 editions. The rule was published in the Colorado Register of July 25, 2026 as a permanent rule adopted, cleared by the Attorney General on July 13, 2026, and took effect on August 14, 2026, changing the technical standard for every plumbing and fuel-gas installation in the state.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#co-2026-08-14-plumbing-2024-code-editions","who_is_affected":"Every Colorado Residential, Journeyworker and Master Plumber and every plumbing contractor, plus anyone whose work touches fuel-gas piping - including heating and air-conditioning contractors, whose gas-line and plumbing connections fall under the same Plumbing Practice Act. The change is to the technical code, not to who may hold a license: no license class, fee, examination or continuing-education requirement was altered. Anyone working to a 2021-edition code book, or preparing for an examination from one, should confirm the current edition with the Board. Note that the Board's rule-version listing still displayed the superseded February 2026 rule as current more than two weeks after the new rule took effect, so the Colorado Register is the better place to confirm the date."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"al-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/al-electrician/"}],"after":"The chapter contents page lists \"303-X-A Appendices (Repealed 8/14/2026)\", and the publication history on the chapter's own page reads \"Certified Repealed Chapter 303-X-A - Effective Aug 14, 2026\", with the certification and proposal filings published alongside it. All four appendices carry the same repeal marker. The substantive chapters - 303-X-1 Definitions through 303-X-6 Disciplinary and Compliance Proceedings, including 303-X-3 Licensing and Fees - stand unchanged. The Board publishes its current application and renewal forms on its own website, which is where our Alabama page has always pointed.","before":"The Board's chapter of the Administrative Code carried an appendices sub-chapter, 303-X-A, publishing its official forms as rules: 303-X-AA Application Forms, 303-X-AB Petition for Declaratory Ruling Form, 303-X-AC Renewal Forms, and 303-X-AD Change in Company Affiliation Form. The chapter contents page listed \"303-X-A Appendices\" with no repeal marker.","credential":"Electrical Contractor and Journeyman Electrician licenses (Alabama State Board of Electrical Contractors)","date":"2026-08-14","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-08-17","detected_at":"https://admincode.legislature.state.al.us/administrative-code/303","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Alabama's electrical board repealed its rule-book appendices - the four official forms are out of the Administrative Code, and nothing else moved","id":"al-2026-08-14-electrical-board-appendices-repealed","instrument":"Ala. Admin. Code ch. 303-X-A (Appendices: 303-X-AA Application Forms, 303-X-AB Petition for Declaratory Ruling Form, 303-X-AC Renewal Forms, 303-X-AD Change in Company Affiliation Form) - certified repealed effective August 14, 2026","jurisdiction":"Alabama","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our dated capture of the chapter contents page from 2026-08-10 lists \"303-X-A Appendices\" with no repeal marker; the 2026-08-17 capture carries \"(Repealed 8/14/2026)\". The chapter's own publication history, read live on 2026-08-17, dates the certified repeal to August 14, 2026, which is the date used here."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-08-17","outcome":"No correction needed. The Alabama electrician page's facts cite the Board's own fee schedule and exam-application documents, not the appendices, and its one reference to the Administrative Code is to Chapter 303-X as a whole, whose substantive sub-chapters stand. Verified against the live chapter page and its publication history the day the repeal marker was detected.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Alabama Legislative Services Agency (official publisher of the Alabama Administrative Code)","url":"https://admincode.legislature.state.al.us/administrative-code/303-X-A"},"summary":"Effective August 14, 2026, the Alabama Legislative Services Agency certified the repeal of Chapter 303-X-A of the Alabama Administrative Code - the appendices to the State Board of Electrical Contractors' rules, which carried the Board's four official forms (application forms, renewal forms, the petition for a declaratory ruling, and the change-in-company-affiliation form). The six substantive rule chapters, including 303-X-3 Licensing and Fees, were not touched.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#al-2026-08-14-electrical-board-appendices-repealed","who_is_affected":"Alabama electrical contractor and journeyman applicants and licensees. Nothing substantive changed: no fee, experience requirement, or renewal rule moved. The practical effect is on citations - anyone citing 303-X-AA through 303-X-AD for a form is now citing a repealed rule, and the current forms come from the Board's website, not the Administrative Code. Removing forms from the rule book is routine housekeeping that lets a board revise a form without a rulemaking, but the date matters: a form kept on file that cites the appendices predates August 14, 2026."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"tx-plumber","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/plumber/tx-plumber/"}],"after":"A proposed amendment to the same section is listed on the Board's proposed-rule-amendments page. We are not restating its contents as requirements, because a proposal is not a rule; the Board's page publishes the proposal documents in full.","before":"22 TAC 367.2 as currently adopted remains in force; our Texas plumber page states the rule as adopted.","credential":"Plumber licensing rules","date":"2026-08-14","date_kind":"proposed","date_kind_label":"proposed — not in force","detected":"2026-08-10","detected_at":"https://tsbpe.texas.gov/proposedruleamendments/","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Texas has PROPOSED an amendment to its plumbing license rule — not yet law","id":"tx-2026-08-14-tsbpe-367-2-proposed","instrument":"22 TAC 367.2 (proposed amendment)","jurisdiction":"Texas","occupations":["plumber"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"The section number appeared on the Board's proposed-amendments listing between our dated captures; the listing itself is the evidence, and adoption is a separate, later event."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-08-11","outcome":"No page changed. Recorded as pending, with an adoption check scheduled.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners","url":"https://tsbpe.texas.gov/proposedruleamendments/"},"summary":"The Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners published a proposed amendment to 22 TAC 367.2, listed on its proposed-rule-amendments page under August 14, 2026. It is a proposal: nothing in it is in force, and we are watching for adoption.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#tx-2026-08-14-tsbpe-367-2-proposed","who_is_affected":"Texas plumbers and applicants — as advance notice only. Nothing to do yet; if the amendment is adopted, the requirements page changes and this page will carry the adopted version."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"nd-alcohol-server","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/alcohol-server/nd-alcohol-server/"}],"after":"The library page serves the August 11, 2026 version (Supp. No. 14, Update 4), 'Codified through Ordinance No. 5551, adopted July 6, 2026', and the adopted-but-not-yet-codified list is empty.","before":"The library page served the July 13, 2026 version (Supp. No. 14, Update 3), codified through Ordinance No. 5550 (adopted June 22, 2026), and listed Ordinance No. 5551 - 'AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1-0305A, OF ARTICLE 1-03, OF CHAPTER 1, OF THE FARGO MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO CLASSIFICATION OF ORDINANCE VIOLATIONS', adopted 7/6/26 - under 'Adopted Ordinances Not Yet Codified'.","credential":"Fargo mandatory alcohol server training certificate (city ordinance; North Dakota has no statewide server card)","date":"2026-08-11","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-08-17","detected_at":"https://library.municode.com/nd/fargo","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Fargo's municipal code rolled to Supplement 14 Update 4 - the one newly codified ordinance amends Chapter 1's violation-classification section, not the server-training rules","id":"nd-2026-08-11-fargo-municode-supp14u4","instrument":"Fargo, N.D., Municipal Code - Supp. No. 14, Update 4 (online content updated August 11, 2026), codified through Ordinance No. 5551 (adopted July 6, 2026), amending ch. 1, art. 1-03, Sec. 1-0305A (classification of ordinance violations)","jurisdiction":"North Dakota","occupations":["alcohol-server"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-08-10 capture holds the July 13, 2026 version with Ordinance No. 5551 listed as adopted-not-yet-codified, its title naming Sec. 1-0305A; the 2026-08-17 capture holds the rolled August 11, 2026 version codified through that ordinance with the pending list cleared. The diff between the two captures is the whole event."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-08-21","outcome":"No correction needed. nd-alcohol-server's Fargo facts - mandatory training completed before employment under Ordinance No. 5378, the 3-year card, the North Dakota Safety Council online-only course, and the $500 administrative penalty on the license holder - cite the server-training ordinance and the alcohol-licensing provisions, and the page states no fact derived from Chapter 1's violation classes. If a later read of Sec. 1-0305A shows reclassified penalty amounts that the alcohol chapter incorporates by reference, this review reopens.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Municode Library (code publisher for the City of Fargo, N.D.)","url":"https://library.municode.com/nd/fargo"},"summary":"Municode published Supplement No. 14, Update 4 of the Fargo Municipal Code (online August 11, 2026), codifying Ordinance No. 5551 (adopted July 6, 2026), which amends ch. 1, art. 1-03, Sec. 1-0305A - the classification of ordinance violations - and nothing in the alcohol server-training provisions.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#nd-2026-08-11-fargo-municode-supp14u4","who_is_affected":"Fargo alcohol servers and licensees, unaffected on the current evidence: Ordinance No. 5551 amends the general classification of ordinance violations in Chapter 1, while Fargo's server-training mandate rests on Ordinance No. 5378 (adopted December 27, 2022) and the alcohol-licensing chapter's administrative fees - neither of which the codification notice names. Caveat stated plainly: the amendment's inner text is not readable by automation (the Municode section pages are an application shell and the city's July 6, 2026 commission minutes were not reachable), so this review attests what the codification notice says the ordinance touches, not the amendment's full text."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"il-food-handler","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/food-handler/il-food-handler/"}],"after":"\"...food handlers employed in nursing homes, licensed early care and education homes and locations, hospitals, schools, and long-term care facilities must renew their training every 3 years.\"","before":"\"...food handlers employed in nursing homes, licensed day care homes and facilities, hospitals, schools and long-term care facilities must renew their training every 3 years.\"","credential":"Food handler training — renewal categories","date":"2026-08-10","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-08-10","detected_at":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1578\u0026ChapterID=35","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Illinois renamed the child-care category in its food-handler training statute","id":"il-2026-08-10-early-care-and-education","instrument":"410 ILCS 625/3.06(b), Food Handling Regulation Enforcement Act","jurisdiction":"Illinois","occupations":["food-handler"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"We are dating this to the day the General Assembly's published text was observed to change, not to an effective date: the amending public act is not identified on the section as published, so asserting one would go beyond what the source shows."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-08-11-A002"],"on":"2026-08-11","outcome":"Our Illinois food-handler page had been quoting the superseded wording as the current statute and was corrected.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Illinois General Assembly","url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1578\u0026ChapterID=35"},"summary":"410 ILCS 625/3.06(b) now requires renewal every three years for food handlers employed in \"nursing homes, licensed early care and education homes and locations, hospitals, schools, and long-term care facilities\" — the category formerly written as \"licensed day care homes and facilities\".","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#il-2026-08-10-early-care-and-education","who_is_affected":"Illinois food handlers in child-care settings and the employers who classify them — the duty is unchanged, but a reader searching the statute for \"day care\" will no longer find the category under that name."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"la-alcohol-server","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/alcohol-server/la-alcohol-server/"}],"after":"A block at the top of the page reads: 'Online Printing availability of your Responsible Vendor (RV) permits is currently unavailable. To obtain a copy of your ATC RV Server card, you may submit a public records request or send the request directly to [the address ATC gives on the page]. In order for ATC to process the request, you MUST in your email the following information: your full name (the name as provided to your provider), your date of birth, and last four (4) digits of your social security number. Failure to provide all required information, or submitting your request to ATC's complaint line will be rejected or further delay processing of your request.' The page also gained a standing link, 'How to Request A Copy of your RV Server Card?'. The print address the handbook names now redirects to the ATC home page. Confirmed still in place on 2026-09-02.","before":"The Responsible Vendor Information page went straight from its heading to the provider list with no notice about card copies, and the agency's Responsible Vendor Handbook told servers their card would be on the ATC website 7-10 days after the course and could be printed from a dedicated page at atc.la.gov.","credential":"Louisiana Responsible Vendor server permit (the RV 'bar card'), required of every server within 45 days of hire and valid four years","date":"2026-08-10","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-08-10","detected_at":"https://atc.louisiana.gov/responsible-vendors/responsible-vendor-information/","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Louisiana ATC turned off online printing of Responsible Vendor server cards - servers must now request a copy by email or public records request","id":"la-2026-08-10-rv-card-online-printing-unavailable","instrument":"Notice published on the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control's Responsible Vendor Information page (operational; no change to R.S. 26:932-936 or to LAC 55:VII)","jurisdiction":"Louisiana","occupations":["alcohol-server"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-08-03 capture of the Responsible Vendor Information page has no such block - it runs from the page heading directly into the provider list, as does the 2026-07-11 baseline. The 2026-08-10 capture carries the block verbatim, and the 2026-08-17, 08-24 and 08-31 captures all keep it while the page's separate rotating alert strip changed underneath it four times. A direct read on 2026-09-02 returns the block unchanged, and the print address quoted in ATC's Responsible Vendor Handbook (2021 edition, still published) now redirects to the ATC home page."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-02-A001"],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"Corrected the same day. la-alcohol-server said the RV card 'is available to print from the ATC website about 7-10 days later'; it now carries both official sources with dates - the 2021 handbook's 7-10-day online statement and the program page's notice, read 2026-09-02, that online printing is currently unavailable and a copy must be requested by public records request or email with the three identifiers ATC names. A watch on the phrase 'currently unavailable' catches the restoration.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control (ATC)","url":"https://atc.louisiana.gov/responsible-vendors/responsible-vendor-information/"},"summary":"The Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control added a notice to the top of its Responsible Vendor Information page: online printing of RV permits is unavailable, and a server who needs a copy of the card must submit a public records request or email ATC with their full name as given to the training provider, date of birth, and the last four digits of their social security number. Requests missing any of that, or sent to ATC's complaint line, are rejected or delayed.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#la-2026-08-10-rv-card-online-printing-unavailable","who_is_affected":"Every Louisiana alcohol server and seller who holds, or has just earned, a Responsible Vendor permit and needs the card itself - most immediately anyone who has just finished an approved course and expected to print the card, and anyone who has lost a card and must produce it for an ATC agent. The requirement to hold the permit within 45 days of hire, the four-year term, the $25 course cap and the $5 replacement fee are unchanged; only the way to obtain a copy of the card has changed. Note that ATC's own handbook still describes self-service printing, so the two official sources disagree and both are stated here."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"nc-plumber","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/plumber/nc-plumber/"}],"after":"The Board's Applicant Information page reads \"The course is currently being offered and you may get additional information here,\" and a new Trade Talk item headed \"NEW! - Residential Fire Sprinkler Installation Contractor licensing course offered\" states that \"Eligible licensees must submit an application and complete the self-study coursework before October 15, 2026 in order to attend the classroom course and take the examination on November 19, 2026.\" The Board's own information sheet for the license instead states that the applicant \"must complete the one-day in-person course in Statesville, NC on November 10, 2026, and pass the examination given at the conclusion of the course,\" and prices the application at \"the $150 application fee before October 15, 2026.\" Both are the Board's own publications and both are live, so both dates are given here rather than one being chosen. Eligibility did not move: 21 NCAC 50 .0306(h) still requires an active Plumbing Class I or Class II Contractor license held for at least two years plus \"a 16-hour course approved by the Board ... covering NFPA 13D.\"","before":"The Board published the course as forthcoming and told licensees to wait to be contacted: \"The course will be offered in the Fall of 2026. All eligible plumbing contractors will be notified by email, and information will be published on the Board's website and in the Board's newsletter.\" With no course on offer, the license could not in practice be obtained.","credential":"Residential Fire Sprinkler Installation Contractor license (add-on to a Plumbing Class I or Class II Contractor license)","date":"2026-08-06","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-08-11","detected_at":"https://nclicensing.org/trade-talk/","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"North Carolina finally opened the one course that unlocks its residential fire-sprinkler license — and set an October 15 deadline to apply","id":"nc-2026-08-06-rfsic-course-offered","instrument":"21 NCAC 50 .0306(h) — the 16-hour Board-approved NFPA 13D course requirement (unchanged); the Board's Residential Fire Sprinkler Installation Contractor information sheet, RFSIC-2026","jurisdiction":"North Carolina","occupations":["plumber"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our dated captures of the Board's Applicant Information and Trade Talk pages from 2026-08-03 carry the old wording — the course \"will be offered in the Fall of 2026\" — and carry no Trade Talk item about the course; the captures from 2026-08-11 carry both the revised sentence and the new item. The Board's information sheet for the license was published at /wp-content/uploads/2026/08/RFSIC-2026.pdf and its server reports it last modified 6 August 2026, which is the date used here."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-08-12-A002"],"on":"2026-08-12","outcome":"Corrected the same day. nc-plumber had attributed to the Board a sentence it has retracted — that the required 16-hour course would be \"offered in the Fall of 2026\" — and that quotation was replaced with the Board's current wording. The record's own tripwire on the old phrasing was closed and re-armed on the new October 15, 2026 deadline. No requirement stated on the page was wrong. The two Board pages that disagree about the classroom date are both carried and both attributed; we did not pick one.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"North Carolina State Board of Examiners of Plumbing, Heating, and Fire Sprinkler Contractors","url":"https://nclicensing.org/trade-talk/"},"summary":"The NC State Board of Examiners of Plumbing, Heating and Fire Sprinkler Contractors published on August 6, 2026 that the 16-hour Board-approved course required for the Residential Fire Sprinkler Installation Contractor license is now being offered; the license requirement itself is unchanged, but applications and the self-study work are due before October 15, 2026, and the Board's two published pages give different dates for the classroom day and exam.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#nc-2026-08-06-rfsic-course-offered","who_is_affected":"North Carolina plumbing contractors who have held a Class I or Class II license for at least two years and want to install multipurpose fire sprinkler systems in one- and two-family dwellings. Nothing about their eligibility changed — but the course they were told to wait for is open now, the application and self-study work are due before October 15, 2026, and anyone still expecting an email announcement in the autumn is working from a sentence the Board has replaced. Anyone booking travel should confirm the classroom date with the Board, because its two published pages disagree."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"mn-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/mn-hvac/"}],"after":"Quoting the City: \"You must provide a surety bond with your application. HVAC Class A and B requires a State of MN $25,000 bond.\" The Class A and Class B scope definitions are unchanged — Class A covers install, repair and cleaning; Class B is cleaning only.","before":"Class B (cleaning only) required a $10,000 bond from the City, alongside a State of Minnesota $25,000 bond for Class A.","credential":"Minneapolis HVAC Class A / Class B contractor license","date":"2026-08-06","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-08-10","detected_at":"https://www.minneapolismn.gov/business-services/licenses-permits-inspections/business-licenses/contractors/trades/hvac-class-ab/","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Minneapolis dropped its separate $10,000 city bond for HVAC Class B contractors","id":"mn-2026-08-06-minneapolis-hvac-bond","instrument":"City of Minneapolis HVAC Class A and B licensing requirements","jurisdiction":"Minneapolis, Minnesota","occupations":["hvac"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our dated capture from before the revision carries the two-bond rule, including the $10,000 City bond for Class B."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-08-11-A001"],"on":"2026-08-11","outcome":"Our Minnesota HVAC page stated the old two-bond rule in two separate fields and was corrected against the live City page.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"City of Minneapolis","url":"https://www.minneapolismn.gov/business-services/licenses-permits-inspections/business-licenses/contractors/trades/hvac-class-ab/"},"summary":"The City of Minneapolis revised its HVAC Class A/B licensing page on August 6, 2026 to a single bond rule covering both classes — a State of Minnesota $25,000 bond — removing the $10,000 City bond that had applied to Class B.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#mn-2026-08-06-minneapolis-hvac-bond","who_is_affected":"Anyone applying for a Minneapolis HVAC Class B license, who would otherwise budget for and try to obtain a City bond instrument the City no longer requires."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"nm-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/nm-hvac/"},{"id":"nm-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/nm-electrician/"}],"after":"From August 1, 2026 New Mexico applies the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code and the 2024 Uniform Mechanical Code, and has separate 2024 codes for swimming pools, spas and hot tubs, for medical gas, and for boilers. MM-2 and MM-4 are repealed. MM-3 is now 'Heating, ventilation \u0026 air conditioning (HVAC), hydronics, fuel gas piping systems, and process piping' and its scope is stated as 'mechanical systems' - ventilation, exhaust, ducts, combustion air, chimneys and vents, specific appliances, boilers and pressure vessels, refrigeration, hydronics, fuel gas piping, process piping, solar and geothermal energy systems and ambient temperature loops - with control wiring allowed up to 48 volts instead of 24. MM-98 now indicates licensure in MM-1 and MM-3 and covers MS-3 and MS-6 only. The JR conflict is resolved: both rules now say a JR may work under an MM-3 or MM-98. MS-12 is renamed Automatic Fire Sprinkler Systems and MS-14 Chemical Suppression Systems, and their 24-volt control-wiring limits also rise to 48 volts. The medical gas installer qualification and three-year recertification standard (ASSE 6010, a division-approved 32-hour course) moves into 14.6.4 NMAC, and journeyman medical gas (JMG) is added to the classifications that must meet the 16-hour continuing-education requirement. The word 'unregistered' is struck from the apprentice supervision ratios, which stay at one journeyman to two apprentices on commercial or industrial work and one to three on residential work. Electrical classifications and their experience requirements are unchanged.","before":"The 2021 New Mexico Plumbing Code (2021 Uniform Plumbing Code) and 2021 New Mexico Mechanical Code (2021 Uniform Mechanical Code) governed contracting work. The mechanical contractor classifications ran MM-1 through MM-4, MM-98 indicated licensure in MM-1 through MM-4 and covered the MS-3, MS-6, MS-12 and MS-14 scopes, and the MM-3 HVAC scope was written as a list of equipment with control wiring limited to 24 volts. A journeyman refrigeration (JR) certificate holder was told by 14.6.4.8(F)(5) NMAC that they could work under an MM-3, MM-4, MM-98 or JSM license, while 14.6.6.11(D)(5) NMAC said MM-3 or MM-98 only. The medical gas installer standard sat in 14.9.5 NMAC.","credential":"New Mexico Construction Industries Division contractor licenses (MM-1, MM-3, MM-98 and the MS specialty classes) and journeyman certificates of competence (JR refrigeration, JSM sheet metal, JP, JG, JPG, JPF, JW, JMG, and the electrical EE-98J, ER-1J, EL-1J and ES classes)","date":"2026-08-01","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"New Mexico adopted the 2024 Plumbing and Mechanical Codes and rewrote its mechanical contractor classifications on August 1, 2026 - the MM-2 and MM-4 licenses are repealed and the MM-3 HVAC scope is replaced","id":"nm-2026-08-01-cid-2024-codes-and-journeyman-classification-amendments","instrument":"14.6.4 NMAC (Journeyman Certification), 14.6.5 NMAC (Inspectors) and 14.6.6 NMAC (Classifications and Scopes), as amended; 14.8.2 and 14.9.2 NMAC repealed and replaced by the 2024 New Mexico Plumbing Code and 2024 New Mexico Mechanical Code; 14.8.3, 14.8.4 and 14.9.4 NMAC new; 14.9.5 NMAC repealed","jurisdiction":"New Mexico","occupations":["hvac","electrician","plumber"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"official-text","note":"The codified rules at srca.nm.gov still serve the pre-amendment text: 14.8.2 NMAC is still headed '2021 NEW MEXICO PLUMBING CODE' and adopts the 2021 UPC, 14.9.2 NMAC is still headed '2021 NEW MEXICO MECHANICAL CODE' and adopts the 2021 UMC, and 14.6.4 NMAC's newest history entry is 'A, 01/13/2023'. That is the codification lagging the Register, not the amendment failing - the adopted text carries the effective date 08/01/2026 in each section's own history line."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-02-A009"],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"Corrected the same day. nm-hvac quoted four passages of 14.6.6.11 NMAC that the August 1, 2026 amendment replaced - the MM-3 scope, the MM-98 composition, the JR two-source note and the apprentice-ratio wording - and now carries the amended text with the effective date. nm-electrician states nothing the amendment touched.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"New Mexico Commission of Public Records, Administrative Law Division (New Mexico Register, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12, June 23, 2026), for the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, Construction Industries Division","url":"https://www.srca.nm.gov/nmac-home/new-mexico-register/volume-xxxvii-issue-12/"},"summary":"The Construction Industries Division of the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department repealed and replaced 14.8.2 NMAC (New Mexico Plumbing Code) and 14.9.2 NMAC (New Mexico Mechanical Code) with 2024 editions adopting the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code and 2024 Uniform Mechanical Code, adopted new 14.8.3 NMAC (2024 Swimming Pool, Spa and Hot Tub Code), 14.8.4 NMAC (2024 Medical Gas Code) and 14.9.4 NMAC (Boilers), repealed 14.9.5 NMAC, and amended 14.6.4 NMAC (Journeyman Certification), 14.6.5 NMAC (Inspectors) and 14.6.6 NMAC (Classifications and Scopes). All were published in the New Mexico Register on June 23, 2026 and took effect August 1, 2026. The mechanical contractor classifications MM-2 (natural gas fitting) and MM-4 (heating, cooling and process piping) are repealed; the MM-3 HVAC scope is rewritten; and the journeyman classifications that referenced the repealed licenses are conformed.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#nm-2026-08-01-cid-2024-codes-and-journeyman-classification-amendments","who_is_affected":"New Mexico HVAC, plumbing and mechanical contractors and journeymen. Anyone holding or relying on an MM-2 or MM-4 license should contact the Mechanical Plumbing Bureau, because those classifications no longer exist. HVAC contractors gain a broader written MM-3 scope and a higher control-wiring threshold. Electricians and electrical journeymen are not affected: 14.6.6.10 NMAC's classifications and experience requirements and 14.6.4 NMAC's certification process, examination and continuing-education rules are unchanged for them."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"nc-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/nc-electrician/"}],"after":"Quoting the rule as amended: \"(4) Persons acting as independent contractors, consultants, or subcontractors, or paid in cash without tax withholding, or issued a 1099 form, are not bona fide employees.\" Supervision must come from a listed qualified individual \"issued a w-2 by the employing licensee\", and a new (a)(5) governs employees shared with a labor supplier, which now requires a written contract allocating payroll and tax withholding to the supplier while control and supervision stay with the listed qualified individual and the licensed firm.","before":"The exemption was stated without conditions: an individual electrician working as an employee of a licensed electrical contractor needed no license of their own.","credential":"Electrical contractor license — bona fide employee exemption","date":"2026-08-01","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-08-11","detected_at":"https://www.ncbeec.org/title-21-ncac-18b/","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"North Carolina narrowed who counts as a licensee's 'bona fide employee' — 1099 and cash-paid electricians no longer qualify","id":"nc-2026-08-01-bona-fide-employee","instrument":"21 NCAC 18B .0306 (authority G.S. 87-42; exemption at G.S. 87-43.1(3))","jurisdiction":"North Carolina","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our dated capture of the Board's Title 21 page from before the amendment carried the rule without subsections (a)(4) and (a)(5); the amendment is recorded in the rule's own history note as \"Amended Eff. August 1, 2026\", the only 2026 amendment date on the page."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-08-11-A003"],"on":"2026-08-11","outcome":"Our North Carolina electrician page stated the exemption categorically and was corrected the same day.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"North Carolina State Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors","url":"https://www.ncbeec.org/title-21-ncac-18b/"},"summary":"The NC Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors amended 21 NCAC 18B .0306 effective August 1, 2026, adding express conditions to the employee exemption in G.S. 87-43.1(3): the supervising qualified individual must be issued a W-2 by the employing licensee, and anyone working as an independent contractor, consultant or subcontractor — or paid in cash without tax withholding, or issued a 1099 — is not a bona fide employee.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#nc-2026-08-01-bona-fide-employee","who_is_affected":"Electricians in North Carolina who are paid on a 1099, in cash without withholding, or as subcontractors while relying on an employer's license. Under the amended rule they are not covered by the employee exemption; the Board treats an individual whose paperwork does not substantiate employment as an independent contractor subject to Chapter 87, Article 4."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"me-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/me-electrician/"}],"after":"Quoting §3475(3): a customer may install systems \"with a combined inverter output of up to 420 watts, measured in alternating current, per service address\", and may install systems \"exceeding 420 watts, but no more than 1,200 watts, per service address, as long as each system is installed by an electrician licensed in the State and uses a dedicated circuit with a single outlet\" plus notice to the transmission and distribution utility within 30 days of installation. Systems installed under §3475 may not be used for net energy billing. Two official texts describe the outlet slightly differently and we state both: the statute says \"a dedicated circuit with a single outlet\", while the Board's notice says \"a dedicated circuit with a single receptable outlet\". Separately, and NOT yet law: the Board has PROPOSED to amend its Chapter 160, Power Generation Systems as Electrical Installations, to define what the law's \"standard electrical outlet\" means by pointing to \"receptacle outlet\" as defined in Article 100 of the National Electrical Code the Board has adopted, and to state that installing these portable plug-in systems is not itself an electrical installation — while any related work that does meet the statutory definition of an electrical installation still carries the Board's licensing, permit and standards rules. Comments on that proposal close Friday, August 14, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. If it is adopted, the definition of the qualifying outlet moves into rule; until then only the statute governs.","before":"Maine statute had no provision for plug-in photovoltaic or plug-in battery systems at all — the act enacting §3475 states that the section \"is enacted to read\", so there was no prior version of it — and the Electricians' Examining Board's page said nothing about them.","credential":"Maine electrician license — work reserved to licensed electricians","date":"2026-07-29","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-07-27","detected_at":"https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/electricians","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Maine now reserves plug-in solar and battery installs above 420 watts to licensed electricians","id":"me-2026-07-29-plug-in-solar-licensed-electrician","instrument":"35-A M.R.S. §3475, as enacted by P.L. 2025, c. 644 (LD 1730 / S.P. 676)","jurisdiction":"Maine","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our dated captures of the Board's page bracket the notice: the July 11 capture carries only the Chapter 120 (2026 NEC) adoption notice, and the July 27 capture carries the plug-in rulemaking notice ahead of it, with the rest of the page unchanged word for word."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-08-12","outcome":"No correction was needed: our Maine electrician page states license classes, experience hours, exams, fees, renewal and continuing education, none of which the act touches. The effective date was confirmed against the Legislature's own digest rather than taken from the Board's summary, and the proposed Chapter 160 amendment is recorded as a proposal with an adoption check due after comments close on August 14, 2026.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Maine State Legislature (LD 1730 / S.P. 676, enacted and signed April 6, 2026, Public Law chapter 644)","url":"https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?LD=1730\u0026snum=132"},"summary":"P.L. 2025, c. 644 (LD 1730, signed April 6, 2026) enacted 35-A M.R.S. §3475 effective July 29, 2026: a Maine household may put in plug-in photovoltaic or plug-in battery systems totalling up to 420 watts of inverter output itself, but anything above 420 watts and up to 1,200 watts per service address must be installed by an electrician licensed in the State, on a dedicated circuit with a single outlet, with notice to the utility within 30 days.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#me-2026-07-29-plug-in-solar-licensed-electrician","who_is_affected":"Maine licensed electricians — the 420-to-1,200-watt band is work only they may perform — and Maine households buying plug-in solar or battery kits, who may self-install only up to 420 watts of combined inverter output per service address."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"de-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/de-electrician/"}],"after":"The same two sections each carry an added sentence: '(It is important to note, For authentication purposes, the Verification of Employment form must be submitted directly by the supervisor – forms forwarded or submitted by the applicant cannot be accepted.)' The general third-party instruction is still there, unchanged, above it.","before":"The page told applicants only that 'If you have not completed a registered/approved Apprenticeship program and you are applying for Master, Limited or any Special license, submit a Verification of Employment form from each employer. This form must show your years of full-time experience under the supervision of a licensed master or limited electrician.' Who put the form in front of the Board was governed by the page's general instruction on third-party documents, which is permissive: 'Forms requiring a supervisor signature, seal, or notary may have to be MAILED to the Board office directly UNLESS the document specifically indicates to UPLOAD the document.'","credential":"Delaware electrician licenses issued by the Board of Electrical Examiners within the Division of Professional Regulation – Master Electrician, Limited Electrician, Master Electrician Special and Limited Electrician Special, whether applied for by examination or by reciprocity","date":"2026-07-28","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-08-03","detected_at":"https://dpr.delaware.gov/boards/electrician/newlicense/","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Delaware will no longer accept an electrician's experience form from the applicant – the supervisor has to send it in","id":"de-2026-07-28-electrician-employment-verification-supervisor-only","instrument":"Application instructions published by the Delaware Board of Electrical Examiners, Division of Professional Regulation, on its 'Apply for a New License' page. This is a published instruction rather than a rule amendment: the codified rule, 24 DE Admin Code 1400, was not re-read for this item, so whether the codified text was amended to match is not established.","jurisdiction":"Delaware","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our record of this page dated 2026-07-11 does not contain the sentence anywhere in its 12,985 characters; our record dated 2026-08-03 contains it twice, and the 410-character difference between the two records is those two insertions and nothing else. The page's own published modification date, read on 2026-09-09, is July 28, 2026 and places the edit inside that window. The Internet Archive holds no copy of this address between June and September 2026, so no independent third-party record of the earlier wording was available; the date rests on the Board's own modification stamp."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-10-A007"],"on":"2026-09-10","outcome":"Nothing on de-electrician was false - a search of the record for 'Verification of Employment', 'VOE', 'third-party' and 'supervisor' returned nothing, so this was an omission, and an applicant following our page could have filed a form the Board will refuse. I added one requirements entry, 'Experience proof - the supervisor must send the form', beside the existing DELPROS application-system entry. It quotes the Board's new sentence in full, and carries the three things that stop it overstating the bar: apprenticeship-certificate holders file only 'a copy of your Certificate of Completion of Apprenticeship' and no form at all; the unchanged W-2-plus-letter fallback at the Board's discretion; and Schedule C for periods of self-employment on the reciprocity side. It also names the 45-day documentation deadline the form has to beat. Verified live on 2026-09-10: dpr.delaware.gov/boards/electrician/newlicense/ returned returned the page to a plain browser-class request from this vantage, and '(It is important to note, For authentication purposes, the Verification of Employment form must be submitted directly by the supervisor - forms forwarded or submitted by the applicant cannot be accepted.)' is present twice, once after the experience-tier lead-in and once after the seventeen not-substantially-similar states. Every fallback sentence quoted was read from the same live page.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Delaware Division of Professional Regulation, Board of Electrical Examiners","url":"https://dpr.delaware.gov/boards/electrician/newlicense/"},"summary":"The Board of Electrical Examiners added a note to its new-license instructions on July 28, 2026, in two places, telling applicants that the Verification of Employment form proving their experience 'must be submitted directly by the supervisor' and that 'forms forwarded or submitted by the applicant cannot be accepted.' It applies both to first-time applicants proving experience without an apprenticeship certificate and to reciprocity applicants from the seventeen states Delaware has found not substantially similar. The existing fallback for an applicant who cannot obtain the form at all – W-2s plus a letter, accepted at the Board's discretion – is unchanged.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#de-2026-07-28-electrician-employment-verification-supervisor-only","who_is_affected":"Two groups of Delaware electrician applicants, and their supervisors. First, anyone applying for a Master, Limited, Master Electrician Special or Limited Electrician Special license who is proving experience rather than filing a Certificate of Completion of Apprenticeship: their Verification of Employment form now has to travel from the supervisor to the Board, and a form the applicant forwards will be refused. Second, reciprocity applicants currently licensed in Arkansas, Colorado, D.C., Florida, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Vermont, Virginia or Wyoming, who must prove at least five years after licensure the same way. Two things this does NOT change: an applicant with an apprenticeship completion certificate files the certificate and no employment-verification form at all; and an applicant who genuinely cannot obtain the form still has the page's long-standing alternative – 'submit tax form W-2 showing full-time employment and a letter explaining why you cannot obtain the form', with 'Acceptance of proof other than the Verification of Employment form ... at the discretion of the Board', and Schedule C for periods of self-employment on the reciprocity side. The practical effect is on timing: the form now depends on a third party acting, so it should be requested early, and the Board's separate instruction to have supporting documentation in at least 45 days before a scheduled test date is the deadline it has to beat."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"dc-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/dc-hvac/"}],"after":"The same list now reads 'Operating and Steam Engineer License Renewal Notice / Refrigeration \u0026 Air Conditioning Mechanic License Renewal Notice / New Licensure Reciprocity for Maryland Plumbing Professionals in DC ...'. The notice it links, issued 2026-07-27, states: 'License renewal applications must be submitted by September 30, 2026, expiration date. Your license can be renewed online using this link: https://govservices.dcra.dc.gov/oplarenewallicense. If you do not already have one, you will need to create an Access DC account first.' A companion notice issued 2026-07-24 sets the same September 30 deadline for Operating and Steam Engineers.","before":"The board page's Important Updates list ran 'Operating and Steam Engineer License Renewal Notice / New Licensure Reciprocity for Maryland Plumbing Professionals in DC ...' with no refrigeration notice (as the page stood on July 27, 2026).","credential":"District of Columbia refrigeration and air conditioning licenses (Apprentice, Journeyman, Master, Master Limited, and Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Contractor) - the two-year term ends September 30, 2026","date":"2026-07-27","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-08-03","detected_at":"https://dlcp.dc.gov/page/board-industrial-trades1","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"DC's Board of Industrial Trades issued the 2026 renewal notice for refrigeration and air conditioning mechanics - licenses expire September 30, 2026","id":"dc-2026-07-27-refrigeration-renewal-notice","instrument":"DLCP Board of Industrial Trades licensee renewal notice (operational; the two-year term itself rests on D.C. Official Code 47-2853.12(l) and 17 DCMR 3306.1, and the September 30 / even-year date on DLCP's published License Renewal table)","jurisdiction":"District of Columbia","occupations":["hvac"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-07-27 capture of the Board of Industrial Trades page lists no refrigeration renewal notice; the 2026-08-03 capture adds it and nothing else. The following capture, 2026-08-25, changes only a staff name. A direct read of the board page and of both linked notices on 2026-09-02 confirms all of it is still serving, and each notice carries its own send date on its face."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed - dc-hvac already stated the fixed September 30, even-year expiration. The July 27, 2026 renewal notice and the renewal portal address were added, dated, so the page names the cycle now in play and the correct portal (the renewal address differs from the new-application address).","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"District of Columbia Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection, Board of Industrial Trades","url":"https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/DCWASH/bulletins/421fd22"},"summary":"The Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection published a Refrigeration \u0026 Air Conditioning Mechanic License Renewal Notice telling licensees that renewal applications must be submitted by the September 30, 2026 expiration date, filed through the District's occupational and professional renewal system with an Access DC account. September 30 of even-numbered years is the refrigeration and steam-engineer date only - DC electricians renew November 30 of odd-numbered years and plumbers and gasfitters March 31 of even-numbered years.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#dc-2026-07-27-refrigeration-renewal-notice","who_is_affected":"Every actively licensed District refrigeration and air conditioning mechanic and contractor: the current two-year term ends September 30, 2026, and renewal is filed through the District's occupational and professional renewal system with an Access DC account. A master who is the designated master of a refrigeration and air conditioning contractor company must file a $5,000 bond for the master and a separate $5,000 bond for the company. DC's new BOSS platform, live since August 10, 2026, does not handle this renewal - DLCP's own customer guide limits BOSS to corporate registration, basic business licenses, vending, short-term rentals, special events and weights-and-measures devices. DC electricians are not on this clock: their licenses expire November 30 of odd-numbered years, next on November 30, 2027."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"nd-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/nd-electrician/"}],"after":"The board inserted, immediately after the approval-and-invite paragraph: '**Any cancellation or no-show for the exam will be required to file another application and fee.' The sentence appeared between our July 20 and July 27, 2026 readings of the page and was re-read on the live page on September 2, 2026, unchanged. The board's application (exam) fees are $50.00 for Master, $40.00 for Class B and $25.00 for Journeyman, so a cancellation or no-show now costs a fresh application at one of those amounts.","before":"The exam page set out the re-application route only for candidates who had already tested: 'If you have taken the exam and did not receive a passing score, you must follow these steps. Re-apply once your waiting period is up ... Submit a re-exam application and appropriate fee to our office for processing.' Nothing was said about cancelling or missing a scheduled exam.","credential":"North Dakota electrician licenses examined by the State Electrical Board - Master, Journeyman, Class B and Power Limited Electrician","date":"2026-07-27","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-07-27","detected_at":"https://www.ndseb.com/licensing/exam-dates-information/","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"North Dakota's State Electrical Board now requires a cancelled or missed electrician exam to be re-applied for, with another fee","id":"nd-2026-07-27-electrical-exam-no-show-reapplication","instrument":"North Dakota State Electrical Board exam information page (operational board policy; the board's examination authority is N.D.C.C. ch. 43-09)","jurisdiction":"North Dakota","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-07-20 capture of the exam page does not contain the sentence; the 2026-07-27 capture contains it verbatim, and it is present in every capture since. A live read on 2026-09-02 returns text byte-identical to the most recent stored capture."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed. nd-electrician does not describe the exam cancellation or no-show consequence; the Board's new sentence that a cancellation or no-show requires a new application and fee is published here as reader-relevant information.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"North Dakota State Electrical Board","url":"https://www.ndseb.com/licensing/exam-dates-information/"},"summary":"The North Dakota State Electrical Board added a line to its exam information page: a candidate who cancels a scheduled electrician licensing exam, or fails to appear for it, must file another application and pay another fee before testing. The page previously described a new application and fee only for candidates who sat the exam and failed. Application (exam) fees are $50.00 for the master exam, $40.00 for Class B and $25.00 for journeyman.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#nd-2026-07-27-electrical-exam-no-show-reapplication","who_is_affected":"Anyone approved to sit a North Dakota Master, Journeyman, Class B or Power Limited electrician examination. You must still apply and be approved before you can pick a date, and you must test within six months of receiving an invite; now, if you cancel or do not show up, the invite is not simply rescheduled - you file a new application and pay again. Candidates who sit and fail are unchanged: they re-apply after the waiting period set by their score (none for 60-69, three months for 50-59, six months for 0-49)."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"il-notary","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/notary/il-notary/"}],"after":"Subsections (a) and (b) are unchanged, and a new subsection sits between (b) and (c): '(b-5) The fee under subsection (b) shall be waived and shall not be paid or collected. This subsection is inoperative on and after the date 2 years after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly.' The section's source line now reads '(Source: P.A. 104-621, eff. 7-24-26.)'","before":"Section 2-103 set two fees and waived neither: '(a) Every applicant for appointment and commission as a notary public shall pay to the Secretary of State a fee of $15. Ten dollars from each applicant fee shall be deposited in the General Revenue Fund. Five dollars from each applicant fee shall be deposited in the Electronic Notarization Fund. (b) Every applicant for a commission as an electronic notary public shall pay to the Secretary of State a fee of $25. This fee is in addition to the fee proscribed for a commission as a notary public and shall be deposited in the Electronic Notarization Fund.' The section's source line read '(Source: P.A. 102-160, eff. 7-1-22.)'","credential":"Illinois electronic notary public commission - the separate commission a notary public must hold to perform electronic notarial acts, including remote online notarization by audio-video communication","date":"2026-07-24","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-08-24","detected_at":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=107\u0026ChapterID=2","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Illinois stopped collecting the $25 electronic notary fee on July 24, 2026 - for two years","id":"il-2026-07-24-electronic-notary-fee-waived","instrument":"Public Act 104-621, which added subsection (b-5) to Section 2-103 of the Illinois Notary Public Act (5 ILCS 312/2-103)","jurisdiction":"Illinois","occupations":["notary"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our record of the Notary Public Act text dated 2026-08-17 contains no subsection (b-5) anywhere in Section 2-103 and gives the section's source line as P.A. 102-160, effective 7-1-22. Our record of the same text dated 2026-08-24 contains the new subsection and the new source line, and those 40 words plus that one line are the only difference between the two across the Act's whole 107 KB. The Act text read afresh on 2026-09-10 still carries both, so the amendment stands. Public Act 104-621's own text could not be read: two published addresses for it on the General Assembly's site both fail on the server's certificate chain for every non-browser client, the Internet Archive holds neither, and the citation and effective date here rest on the Illinois Compiled Statutes' own source line for the section."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-10-A008"],"on":"2026-09-10","outcome":"The August 25 repair had put the waiver in the fee section, the cost FAQ and the legal-basis section, but two sentences on the same page still told a reader to pay the $25 Illinois is not collecting: step 6 of the step-by-step ('$25 more for an electronic notary public commission') and the electronic-commission row of the license-types table ('It carries its own $25 fee'). I rewrote both to keep the $25 that subsection (b) still prescribes and to say it is waived - step 6 now quotes 2-103(b-5) and states that both commissions together cost $15 in state fees today, and the license-types row now reads 'its own $25 fee under 5 ILCS 312/2-103(b) - currently waived by 2-103(b-5) until 2028-07-24'. Nothing true was deleted, and the $25 notarial-fee ceilings under 3-102/3-104 were deliberately left alone: different fee, different section, untouched by P.A. 104-621. Verified live on 2026-09-10: ilga.gov refused this vantage's egress on a TCP connect timeout and the offline corpus has no copy, so the Act text was read from a US-vantage runner (run 34491952980, returned the page, 107,747 characters). Section 2-103 carries (a) $15, (b) $25 unrepealed, the new (b-5) 'The fee under subsection (b) shall be waived and shall not be paid or collected. This subsection is inoperative on and after the date 2 years after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly.', and the source line '(Source: P.A. 104-621, eff. 7-24-26.)' The 2028-07-24 sunset is derived from that effective date, and the page now says so.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Illinois General Assembly (Illinois Compiled Statutes)","url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=107\u0026ChapterID=2"},"summary":"Public Act 104-621 added subsection (b-5) to Section 2-103 of the Illinois Notary Public Act, waiving the $25 fee for an electronic notary public commission and barring the State from collecting it. The waiver took effect on July 24, 2026 and is written to become inoperative two years later, on July 24, 2028. The $25 was not repealed - subsection (b) still prescribes it - so it returns on that date unless the General Assembly acts again.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#il-2026-07-24-electronic-notary-fee-waived","who_is_affected":"Anyone applying for or renewing an Illinois electronic notary public commission, and any notary deciding whether to add electronic notarial acts. While the waiver holds, a person who wants to notarize electronically pays $15 in state fees rather than $40 - the $15 appointment fee alone. Three cautions follow from how the waiver is written. It suspends the fee rather than repealing it, so subsection (b) still prescribes $25 and a form or table quoting $25 is not wrong, merely superseded for now. Its end date is stated as a formula, 'two years after the effective date of this amendatory Act', which works out to July 24, 2028 from the effective date the statute itself gives. And it reaches only the electronic-commission fee: the $15 appointment fee under subsection (a) is unchanged, as are the private costs the State does not set - the surety bond, the required course and examination, and the seal."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ne-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/ne-electrician/"}],"after":"Renewal October 1 to November 30 of even-numbered years; late renewal December 1-31 with a flat 10% penalty; after that the license or registration has expired and a new one must be obtained. LB 889 also added a family exemption at 81-2143(2), covering unlicensed electrical work performed for a parent, stepparent, spouse, descendant, grandparent, sibling, cousin, uncle or aunt, including relationships of the half blood, adoption or marriage.","before":"A license could be renewed up to three months after expiration at a penalty of 10% per month, after which the applicant had to re-take the examination.","credential":"Electrician licenses and registrations","date":"2026-07-18","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-07-20","detected_at":"https://electrical.nebraska.gov/","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Nebraska replaced its electrician renewal and late-renewal scheme, and removed the grace period","id":"ne-2026-07-18-lb889-renewal","instrument":"Neb. Rev. Stat. 81-2118 and 81-2143(2), as amended by LB 889 (2026)","jurisdiction":"Nebraska","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"wayback","note":"The pre-amendment renewal scheme was confirmed against public 2025 archive captures of the Division's renewal page during the repair."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-07-20-A001","D-2026-07-20-A002"],"on":"2026-07-20","outcome":"Our Nebraska electrician page was corrected two days after the amendment took effect. The Division's own renewal page still described the superseded scheme at the time, so our page attributes the conflict rather than silently picking a side.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Nebraska State Electrical Division","url":"https://electrical.nebraska.gov/"},"summary":"LB 889, adopted April 18, 2026 and effective July 18, 2026, amended Neb. Rev. Stat. 81-2118: renewal now runs October 1 to November 30 of even-numbered years, late renewal is December 1-31 at a flat 10% penalty, and a license not renewed by then expires with no grace period.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ne-2026-07-18-lb889-renewal","who_is_affected":"Nebraska electricians renewing in an even-numbered year, anyone who let a license lapse expecting a three-month window, and homeowners' relatives doing electrical work for family."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ky-food-handler","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/food-handler/ky-food-handler/"}],"after":"That URL redirects to an error page. The current version was checked against the superseded one: the numbering and the substance of the definitions we rely on are unchanged. Only the citation rotted.","before":"The citation pointed at the statute version marked effective until July 15, 2026.","credential":"Food service establishment definitions","date":"2026-07-15","date_kind":"version-expired","date_kind_label":"statute version expired","detected":"2026-07-15","detected_at":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=57381","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"A Kentucky statute version expired and its citation URL stopped resolving","id":"ky-2026-07-15-krs-217-015-version","instrument":"KRS 217.015 (definitions, incl. (21) food service establishment and (40) retail food store exclusions)","jurisdiction":"Kentucky","occupations":["food-handler"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"The superseded version was compared against the current one line by line for the definitions we cite before the citation was repointed."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-07-15-A001"],"on":"2026-07-15","outcome":"The citation was repointed to the current version. No stated fact changed.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Kentucky Legislative Research Commission","url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=57381"},"summary":"The version of KRS 217.015 we cited was published as effective until July 15, 2026; on that date it expired and the versioned URL began redirecting to an \"Invalid Statute\" error page.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ky-2026-07-15-krs-217-015-version","who_is_affected":"Nobody's obligations changed. It is published because a reader — or an AI system — following our citation would have hit an error page, and because a citation that resolves to nothing is a defect in the record even when the underlying fact is right."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ct-notary","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/notary/ct-notary/"}],"after":"Section 13 of Public Act 26-81 substitutes a new Sec. 3-95: the fee 'shall not exceed ten dollars plus an additional rate for each mile of travel not exceeding the business standard mileage rate determined by the Internal Revenue Service.' The General Assembly's Office of Legislative Research describes the change as increasing the maximum fee from $5 to $10 and tying mileage to the IRS business standard rate, which it gives as 72.5 cents for 2026.","before":"Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 3-95 read: 'The fee for any act performed by a notary public in accordance with the provisions of the general statutes shall not exceed five dollars plus an additional thirty-five cents for each mile of travel.' Those amounts had stood since July 1, 2000, when P.A. 00-138 set them.","credential":"Connecticut notary public commission - the statutory ceiling on what a commissioned notary may charge for a notarial act and for travel","date":"2026-07-01","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Connecticut doubled the maximum notary fee to $10 an act on July 1, 2026 and replaced the flat 35-cent mileage charge with the IRS rate","id":"ct-2026-07-01-notary-fee-cap-ten-dollars","instrument":"Connecticut Public Act 26-81 (Substitute Senate Bill No. 294), Section 13, amending Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 3-95","jurisdiction":"Connecticut","occupations":["notary"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"statute","note":"Two Connecticut sources still print the superseded ceiling and both were read on 2026-09-02: the General Assembly's compiled chapter 33, which is revised to January 1, 2026 and whose own header directs readers to the 2026 Supplement for statutes amended during the 2025 sessions, still shows 'five dollars plus an additional thirty-five cents'; and the Secretary of the State's Notary Public Manual, still Rev. 2023-2, whose section 5.8 still shows 'five dollars ($5.00) plus an additional thirty-five cents ($.35) for each mile traveled'. A 2026-session act reaches the compiled statutes only at the next revision, so the enrolled Public Act is the governing text in the meantime. Re-read September 22, 2026: the Secretary of the State has reissued the manual as Rev. 2026-1, whose section 5.8 now states the ten-dollar ceiling effective July 1, 2026; the compiled chapter 33 still prints the old figure."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-02-A013","D-2026-09-22-A002"],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"Corrected the same day. ct-notary stated the $5.00-plus-35-cents ceiling in three places; it now states the $10.00 ceiling and the IRS-mileage travel rate under Public Act 26-81, Section 13, effective July 1, 2026, dates the old figures, and names the two official sources that still print them - the compiled chapter (revised to January 1, 2026) and the Secretary of the State's manual (Rev. 2023-2). Updated 2026-09-22: the manual (now Rev. 2026-1) prints the $10 ceiling, so the page names only the compiled chapter as still carrying the old figure (corrections record D-2026-09-22-A002).","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Connecticut General Assembly","url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00081-R00SB-00294-PA.PDF"},"summary":"Public Act 26-81, Section 13, rewrote Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 3-95 so that the fee for any notarial act may not exceed ten dollars, plus a per-mile travel charge that may not exceed the business standard mileage rate determined by the Internal Revenue Service. The Governor approved the act on May 26, 2026 and Section 13 took effect July 1, 2026. The same act also revised how the Secretary of the State issues apostilles and authentications, permitting them in electronic format at the same fee as paper, effective on passage.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ct-2026-07-01-notary-fee-cap-ten-dollars","who_is_affected":"Every commissioned Connecticut notary public, and everyone who pays one. A notary may now charge up to $10 for a notarial act instead of $5, and may charge travel at up to the IRS business standard mileage rate instead of a flat 35 cents a mile. State police notaries appointed under Sec. 3-94e still charge nothing, and a notary still may not unreasonably refuse service to anyone who tenders the statutory fee."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"wy-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/wy-electrician/"}],"after":"The notice reads: 'The following codes apply: 2024 International Fire Code / 2024 International Building Code / 2024 International Fuel \u0026 Gas Code / 2024 International Mechanical Code / 2024 International Existing Building Code / 2023 edition of the National Electrical Code / 2026 edition of the National Electrical Code', followed by 'Effective July 1, 2026 the 2026 edition of the National Electrical Code will be in effect.' The superseded 2023 line was not removed when the 2026 line was added (as read September 2, 2026). Re-read September 22, 2026: the list now reads '... 2024 International Existing Building Code / 2026 National Electrical Code', with no 2023 line and no 'Effective July 1, 2026' sentence.","before":"The same notice, as captured by the Internet Archive on June 9, 2026, listed one edition of the National Electrical Code and read: 'Effective July 1, 2023 the 2023 edition of the National Electrical Code will be in effect.'","credential":"Wyoming electrical licenses issued by the Department of Fire Prevention and Electrical Safety (State Fire Marshal's Office) - Apprentice Electrician, Low Voltage/Limited Technician, Journeyman Electrician, Master Electrician, and the Electrical and Low Voltage/Limited Contractor licenses those individuals qualify","date":"2026-07-01","date_kind":"rule-effective","date_kind_label":"rule effective","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Wyoming put the 2026 National Electrical Code in effect on July 1, 2026","id":"wy-2026-07-01-nec-2026-edition-effective","instrument":"State of Wyoming adopted-codes notice published by the Department of Fire Prevention and Electrical Safety. Wyoming adopts the National Electrical Code by rule rather than by statute - W.S. 35-9-120(a) requires electrical installations to meet 'the applicable minimum requirements of the National Electrical Code' without naming an edition, and the Council on Fire Prevention and Electrical Safety rules incorporate the 2024 International Codes but not the National Electrical Code. The Electrical Board's own rules document, where the edition is set, is published as a scanned image and its adoption section could not be read or quoted.","jurisdiction":"Wyoming","occupations":["electrician"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"archive","note":"The Internet Archive holds the same notice on June 9, 2026 with a single National Electrical Code line dated 2023, and on July 13, 2026 with both lines and the July 1, 2026 sentence, so the edit falls between those two dates. Our own stored captures of the two Wyoming pages we watch cannot corroborate it: the notice renders inside a bottom section our capture discards before storing, which is why the change produced no signal on our side and why this watch has to be read by hand."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-22-A003"],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"No correction needed. wy-electrician states that examinations are based on the current edition of the National Electrical Code, which is what the licensing page says; the Fire Marshal's adopted-codes notice now names the 2026 edition effective July 1, 2026, alongside a superseded 2023 line the site left in its footer. The notice sits in page chrome our monitor strips, so it is recorded here from a hand read. Updated 2026-09-22: the notice has since dropped the 2023 line; the headline and summary no longer describe it as present (corrections record D-2026-09-22-A003).","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Wyoming Department of Fire Prevention and Electrical Safety (State Fire Marshal's Office)","url":"https://wsfm.wyo.gov/electrical-safety/rules-statutes-and-jurisdictions"},"summary":"The Wyoming State Fire Marshal's adopted-codes notice stated that the 2026 edition of the National Electrical Code took effect on July 1, 2026, replacing the 2023 edition that had been in effect since July 1, 2023. When we read it on September 2, 2026 the notice still listed the 2023 edition alongside the 2026 edition; by September 22, 2026 the 2023 line had been removed and the notice lists only the 2026 National Electrical Code. The state's electrical licensing page continues to say only that examinations are based on 'the current edition' without naming one.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#wy-2026-07-01-nec-2026-edition-effective","who_is_affected":"Every Wyoming electrician sitting a licensing examination, and every contractor, journeyman and master doing installation work in the state. Wyoming adopts the National Electrical Code without modification, so the edition sets the installation standard statewide. Two practical cautions follow from the notice's own wording. First, the licensing page says only that 'the examinations for licenses are based on the current edition of the National Electrical Code' and names no edition, so anyone buying a code book for an examination should confirm the edition with the Electrical Board first. Second, the board's renewal requirement still asks master and journeyman electricians for eight of their sixteen continuing-education hours in a '2020 or 2023 code update' course, which had not been restated for the 2026 edition when read on September 2, 2026."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"la-contractor","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/contractor/la-contractor/"}],"after":"The same list marks both 'Trade Exam': 'Water Well Drilling S.14 Trade Exam Requires Louisiana Department of Natural Resources licensure and refers to the drilling of water wells for potable water systems and other water needs' and 'Environmental Wells S.17 Trade Exam Requires Louisiana Department of Natural Resources licensure and refers to the drilling of environmental wells'. The statute behind it, La. R.S. 37:2156.5(B), reads: 'A water well contractor and environmental well or hold contractor shall pass the appropriate examination, be registered with the State Licensing Board for Contractors, be in good standing with the Department of Conservation and Energy and meet all other licensure requirements of a contractor pursuant to this Chapter.'","before":"The board's classification list marked both specialty classifications 'Credential' - the value it uses, in its own legend, for 'A classification that requires a certification or license from an outside agency or organization, and/or other documents' - so the published requirement for S.14 and S.17 was the outside license alone, with no board examination named.","credential":"Louisiana commercial specialty contractor classifications S.14 Water Well Drilling and S.17 Environmental Wells, issued by the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors","date":"2026-07-01","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-08-31","detected_at":"https://lslbc.gov/exams-classifications/","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Louisiana now requires a contractor examination for water well and environmental well work, and the licensing board's classification list has been updated to match","id":"la-2026-07-01-water-well-environmental-well-exam","instrument":"La. R.S. 37:2156.5 (Water well drilling), enacted by Acts 481 and 757 of the 2026 Regular Session, as noticed by the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors in its memorandum of July 13, 2026 and reflected in the board's Exams/Classifications list","jurisdiction":"Louisiana","occupations":["contractor"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our capture of the board's classification list dated 2026-08-25 marks S.14 and S.17 'Credential'; the 2026-08-31 capture marks both 'Trade Exam', with no other word altered anywhere in the 35,454-character document - the two documents are the same length, because 'Credential' and 'Trade Exam' are both ten characters. An independent web-archive capture of the same page dated 2026-08-14 also reads 'Credential', as does one dated 2026-05-19. A direct read of the live page on 2026-09-02 reads 'Trade Exam' for both, and the count of 'Trade Exam' cells across the whole table moves 66 to 68 while 'Credential' moves 14 to 12. The board's own memorandum of July 13, 2026 and the board's compilation of the licensing law both carry the statutory text quoted above."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-02-A002"],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"Corrected the same day. la-contractor described S.14 Water Well Drilling and S.17 Environmental Wells as 'Credential' classifications; the board re-marked both 'Trade Exam' after La. R.S. 37:2156.5(B) took effect July 1, 2026, and the page now says so, keeps the board's Department of Natural Resources licensure note, and carries the statute's own agency name alongside it.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors","url":"https://lslbc.gov/exams-classifications/"},"summary":"La. R.S. 37:2156.5, added by Acts 481 and 757 of the 2026 Regular Session and effective July 1, 2026, requires a water well or environmental well contractor to pass the appropriate examination, register with the State Licensing Board for Contractors, stay in good standing with the Department of Conservation and Energy, and complete five hours of board-approved continuing education a year - on any project worth one dollar or more. The board's published classification list, which had marked specialty classifications S.14 Water Well Drilling and S.17 Environmental Wells 'Credential', now marks both 'Trade Exam'.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#la-2026-07-01-water-well-environmental-well-exam","who_is_affected":"Anyone applying for, or already holding, Louisiana specialty classification S.14 Water Well Drilling or S.17 Environmental Wells, and any contractor doing water-well or environmental-well work. Since July 1, 2026 the license threshold for that work is a project value of one dollar or more; the contractor must pass the appropriate examination, be registered with the board, be in good standing with the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy, complete five hours of board-approved continuing education every year, and maintain well registration. Separately, from August 1, 2026 the residential subcontractor exemption no longer covers water-well work, so a subcontractor doing water-well work for a residential construction license holder needs the license and classification in their own name."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"ga-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/ga-electrician/"},{"id":"ga-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/ga-hvac/"}],"after":"Under the chapter as re-enacted: display of licenses is 43-14-18 and 43-14-13 is the plumbing-contractor licensing section; 43-14-19(c)(3) carries a proviso letting a tier 2 local exchange company (O.C.G.A. 46-5-162) perform low-voltage interior wiring without an electrical contractor license, solely as needed for its own telecommunications systems and network infrastructure; and the re-enacted chapter contains no professional-engineer exemption from continuing education — 43-14-6 is now the Division of Electrical Contractors' qualification section.","before":"Chapter 43-14 as amended by SB 125 (2025): display of licenses sat at 43-14-13; 43-14-19(c)(3) made interior wiring non-exempt without qualification; and a continuing-education exemption for licensed conditioned air contractors who are registered professional engineers was cited to 43-14-6(d)(5).","credential":"Electrical contractor and conditioned air contractor licenses","date":"2026-07-01","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-07-29","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Georgia repealed and re-enacted its entire electrical, plumbing and conditioned-air licensing chapter — and no board page said so","id":"ga-2026-07-01-sb553-chapter-43-14","instrument":"O.C.G.A. ch. 43-14, as repealed and re-enacted by SB 553 (2026)","jurisdiction":"Georgia","occupations":["electrician","hvac"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our captures of the board's rule pages are unchanged across the period — which is the finding: the board never conformed its rules to the re-enacted chapter, so a monitor watching board pages could not see the statute move."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-07-29-A001","D-2026-07-29-A002","D-2026-07-29-A003"],"on":"2026-07-29","outcome":"Both Georgia pages were corrected. One claim we had earlier flagged as unsupported — that applicants have had to sit the exam since September 30, 1983 — was restored after being found verbatim in the statute; it stands.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"unmonitorable":true,"why":"Georgia's statute source sits behind an automated-access challenge, so it cannot be machine-monitored. The change was verified against the Governor-signed act during the repair, and the facts on our pages now rest on sources we can re-verify. This is a hole in our monitoring, and it is the reason this event was found by an audit seven weeks late rather than by the weekly check."},"summary":"SB 553 (2026) repealed O.C.G.A. chapter 43-14 and re-enacted it effective July 1, 2026, renumbering sections and changing substantive law; the licensing board's own rule pages were never conformed, so nothing in the monitored source set moved when the chapter underneath them was rewritten.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#ga-2026-07-01-sb553-chapter-43-14","who_is_affected":"Georgia electrical and conditioned air contractors, and anyone who relied on a section number from chapter 43-14 between July 1 and late July 2026 — including readers of any reference that had not re-read the chapter itself."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"tn-electrician","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/electrician/tn-electrician/"},{"id":"tn-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/tn-hvac/"}],"after":"The same requirement reads 'Trade Exam: Administered through Prov' (as the page stood on July 20, 2026, re-confirmed live on September 2, 2026). The Board's home page and Exam Information page state the transition in full: 'Beginning July 1, 2026, Prov will serve as the Board's new trade exam provider. Candidates may schedule trade exam appointments through Prov for exams administered on or after July 1. Candidates who are already scheduled with PSI for an exam date after July 1 may either keep their existing PSI appointment or schedule through Prov instead. PSI will continue administering currently scheduled exams through September.' The Exam Information page adds: 'New exam scheduling beginning July 1 should be completed through Prov.'","before":"The Board's Limited Licensed Electrician page listed the requirement as 'Trade Exam: Administered through PSI' (as the page stood on July 11, 2026).","credential":"Tennessee Contractor licenses by classification (Electrical CE, HVAC CMC-C, full Mechanical CMC, plumbing CMC-A) and the individual Limited Licensed Electrician (LLE) and Limited Licensed Plumber (LLP) licenses - every credential whose trade exam the Board administers","date":"2026-07-01","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-07-20","detected_at":"https://www.tn.gov/commerce/regboards/contractors/license/get/lle.html","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Tennessee's Board for Licensing Contractors moved its trade exams from PSI to Prov on July 1, 2026, with PSI finishing already-booked exams through September","id":"tn-2026-07-01-contractor-trade-exam-provider-prov","instrument":"Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors 'Trade Exam Provider Update' notice, published on the Board's home page and its Exam Information page (operational vendor change; no rule in Tenn. Comp. R. \u0026 Regs. chapter 0680-01 names an exam vendor)","jurisdiction":"Tennessee","occupations":["electrician","hvac","plumber","contractor"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-07-11 capture of the Board's Limited Licensed Electrician page says the trade exam is administered through PSI; the 2026-07-20 capture says Prov, with the rest of the page byte-identical. A live read on 2026-09-02 of the LLE page, the Exam Information page and the Board home page confirms Prov and the quoted transition wording are still serving, and that the Board still lists a PSI candidate bulletin among its resources while the wind-down runs."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-02-A008"],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"Corrected the same day. tn-hvac already stated the July 1, 2026 transition to Prov with PSI finishing scheduled exams through September; tn-electrician's LLE bullet still read 'administered via PSI/Prov' and now carries the Board's own wording and both dates.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Department of Commerce and Insurance (Regulatory Boards Division)","url":"https://www.tn.gov/commerce/regboards/contractors/license/exam-info.html"},"summary":"The Board for Licensing Contractors named Prov its trade exam provider for exams administered on or after July 1, 2026, and told candidates that all new exam scheduling from that date goes through Prov. Candidates already booked with PSI for a date after July 1 could keep that appointment or rebook with Prov, and PSI is administering only those already-scheduled exams, through September. The change covers every Tennessee trade exam the Board sets - the Electrical (CE), HVAC (CMC-C), full Mechanical (CMC) and plumbing (CMC-A) trade exams, the Limited Licensed Electrician exam and the Limited Licensed Plumber exam - and the Business and Law exam alongside them.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#tn-2026-07-01-contractor-trade-exam-provider-prov","who_is_affected":"Anyone sitting a Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors exam from July 1, 2026: the Qualifying Agent taking the Business and Law exam and a trade exam for a contractor classification, and any individual taking the Limited Licensed Electrician or Limited Licensed Plumber trade exam. New appointments are booked with Prov. Anyone who already held a PSI booking for a date after July 1 could keep it or move it to Prov, and PSI is running only those pre-booked sittings, through September 2026. Nothing else about the exams changed - they remain open-book and the Board still treats a pass as valid for about two years, and the $50 pre-approval the Board requires before the plumbing CMC-A or full mechanical CMC exam is unaffected."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"de-alcohol-server","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/alcohol-server/de-alcohol-server/"}],"after":"The section is headed \"Wine auctions and spirits auctions\". The Commissioner may grant \"a wine auction license, a spirits auction license, or a wine and spirits auction license\". A \"spirits auction\" is defined as a person, partnership or corporation \"that sells rare or collectable spirits obtained from private collections at public auction to those persons who are of legal age to purchase such items\", and the wine definition now also reaches wines \"obtained from private collections\" rather than only wines held on consignment. The cap became \"no more than 12 wine auctions... and no more than 12 spirits auctions may be conducted within a calendar year, with a maximum of 3 days per auction event. Auctions may be conducted in person or online; both formats count towards the total auctions permitted in a calendar year.\" ON THE DATE, TWO OFFICIAL SOURCES DIFFER AND WE STATE BOTH: the General Assembly's record for Senate Bill 141 gives the effective date as 6/24/26, the day the Governor signed it, and the enacted act itself contains no delayed effective-date provision; Delaware Code Online, for part of July and August, labelled the amendment \"[Effective Aug. 23, 2026]\" while showing the old text alongside it, cited no act for that date, and now publishes the amended section as the only current version with no label at all. We date this to enactment and record the Code publisher's label rather than adopting it.","before":"Section 512D was headed \"Wine auctions\" and authorised one license: the Commissioner \"may grant a wine auction license to each qualified applicant therefor\", covering a business that \"sells rare or fine wines on consignment from the owners of said wines at public auction\". Spirits were not mentioned. The whole section allowed \"no more than 12 auctions... within a calendar year\", with no limit on the length of an event and no mention of online sales.","credential":"Alcoholic beverage auction licenses - wine, spirits, and wine and spirits","date":"2026-06-24","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-07-27","detected_at":"https://delcode.delaware.gov/title4/c005/sc02/index.html","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Delaware created a spirits auction license, and let auctions run online","id":"de-2026-06-24-sb141-spirits-auction","instrument":"4 Del. C. 512D, as amended by Senate Bill 141 (153rd General Assembly), 85 Del. Laws c. 316, 1","jurisdiction":"Delaware","occupations":["alcohol-server"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our dated captures of this subchapter carry the pre-amendment section, headed \"Wine auctions\" with the single 12-auction cap, and then the amended text arriving alongside it. Those captures are also why the effective-date label is reported rather than relied on: the label appeared in some captures and not others while the section's substance stayed the same, so the date it carried was never as stable as the amendment it described."},"review":{"ledger":[],"on":"2026-08-12","outcome":"No page changed. Our Delaware alcohol-server page describes the server training card and the license types exempt from it; comparing every copy we took between July 13 and August 12, 2026 (the review date), the only section of this subchapter that moved is 512D, and the exemption sections it relies on did not. The page was correct before this amendment and is correct after it.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Delaware Code Online, State of Delaware","url":"https://delcode.delaware.gov/title4/c005/sc02/index.html"},"summary":"Senate Bill 141, as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1 and enacted as 85 Del. Laws c. 316, rewrote 4 Del. C. 512D: the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commissioner may now grant a spirits auction license or a combined wine and spirits auction license alongside the existing wine auction license, auctions may be held online as well as in person, and each trade is capped at 12 auctions a calendar year with a maximum of three days per event.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#de-2026-06-24-sb141-spirits-auction","who_is_affected":"Delaware auction houses and nonprofits that hold alcohol auctions, who can now be licensed for spirits and can run an auction online. It does NOT change the Delaware Server Training Card: nothing in this amendment touches 4 Del. C. ch. 12, and the sections of this subchapter that carry the server-training exemptions - gathering licenses under 514 and package-store tasting licenses under 525 - are word-for-word unchanged."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"az-notary","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/notary/az-notary/"}],"after":"The same page carries three exam statements at once and has withdrawn none of them. Above the original block sits a notice: 'Due to a technical issue, the option to take the Notary Exam remotely has had to be temporarily suspended... In the meantime, the exam can still be taken at any one of Prometric's 12 statewide testing sites (Flagstaff, Goodyear, Phoenix, Tempe, Tucson, Yuma.) If you have already registered with Prometric and paid to take a Notary Public exam remotely, please contact Prometric for options.' Between that notice and the original block, a newer paragraph now reads: 'The examination can be taken remotely or at any of Pearson's testing sites. A $35 cost will be assessed for every proctored examination... The examination can be taken 3 times, after the 3rd fail, you will be required to wait 30 days to reschedule.' The office has not said which of the three governs.","before":"The Secretary of State's notary page carried a single exam announcement, stamped March 25, 2025: the examination is 'proctored by Prometric', 'can be taken at any of Prometric's ten testing sites in Arizona or taken remotely', and 'A $46.75 cost will be assessed for every proctored examination.' Remote sittings were offered without qualification.","credential":"Arizona notary public commission - the competency examination required of all new and renewing notaries since July 1, 2025 under A.R.S. § 41-270","date":"2026-06-12","date_kind":"page-revised","date_kind_label":"official page revised","detected":"2026-09-02","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Arizona's Secretary of State says remote notary exam sittings are suspended - while the same page still tells candidates the exam can be taken remotely","id":"az-2026-06-12-notary-exam-remote-option-suspended","instrument":"Notice published by the Arizona Secretary of State, Business Services Division, on its notary public page","jurisdiction":"Arizona","occupations":["notary"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Internet Archive captures of the same URL, each read on 2026-09-02, establish the sequence: 2025-12-13 and 2026-01-31 carry only the Prometric/$46.75 announcement, with no suspension notice and no mention of Pearson anywhere on the page; 2026-06-12 and 2026-07-10 carry the suspension notice, still with no mention of Pearson; our own 2026-08-17 capture and the live page on 2026-09-02 carry all three blocks, the Pearson/$35 paragraph having been inserted above the Prometric one, which was left unedited and still ends with the page's 'Mar 25, 2025' stamp. So the suspension notice appeared between 2026-01-31 and 2026-06-12, and the Pearson paragraph between 2026-07-10 and 2026-08-17."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-02-A010"],"on":"2026-09-02","outcome":"Corrected the same day. az-notary had listed 'remote option available' among the facts every official source agreed on and framed the vendor conflict as website-versus-manual; it now reports the three exam statements the Secretary of State's own page publishes at once - the remote-suspension notice, the Pearson/$35 block and the Prometric/$46.75 block - with their dates, deletes nothing, and tells the reader to confirm the vendor, fee and remote option before paying.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Arizona Secretary of State, Business Services Division","url":"https://azsos.gov/business/notary"},"summary":"The Secretary of State's notary page added a notice stating that 'the option to take the Notary Exam remotely has had to be temporarily suspended', directing candidates to in-person testing at 12 statewide sites and telling anyone already registered and paid for a remote exam to contact the vendor. The notice was absent from the page on January 31, 2026 and present by June 12, 2026. It has not been withdrawn, but the office has since added a second exam block above the page's original one, naming a different vendor and a different fee and saying the exam can be taken remotely.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#az-2026-06-12-notary-exam-remote-option-suspended","who_is_affected":"Every Arizona notary applicant and every notary renewing a commission, all of whom must pass the examination before filing. A candidate planning a remote sitting, or budgeting the fee, cannot get one answer from the Secretary of State's page: the vendor is given as Pearson in one place and Prometric in two, the fee as $35 in one place and $46.75 in two, and remote availability is both withdrawn and offered."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"wy-food-handler","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/food-handler/wy-food-handler/"}],"after":"Ch.1 §11(a): 'The person in charge, as defined in Chapter 1, Section 9, shall be a Certified Food Protection Manager who has shown proficiency of required information through passing a test that is part of an accredited program.' Ch.1 §9(a) requires the license holder to be or designate a person in charge and to 'ensure that a person in charge is present at the establishment or processing plant during all hours of operation.' New §11(b): Certified Food Protection Managers 'who terminate employment shall be replaced within ninety (90) days of such termination.' §11(c) keeps the exception for establishments the regulatory authority deems to 'pose minimal risk of causing, or contributing to, foodborne illness'. The edition is adopted from the Wyoming Department of Agriculture 2012 Food Safety Rule and the 2022 FDA Food Code. DATED HONESTLY: the rule publishes an adoption date and no effective-date or repealer section, so May 19, 2026 is when the Board adopted it and when the edition we had been citing was superseded — we do not assert an effective date the document does not give.","before":"Ch.1 §11(a): 'At least one employee that has supervisory and management responsibility and the authority to direct and control food preparation and service shall be a certified food protection manager who has shown proficiency of required information through passing a test that is part of an accredited program. This provision shall not become effective until January 1, 2015.' The edition was adopted from the Wyoming Department of Agriculture 2012 Food Safety Rule and the 2013 FDA Food Code.","credential":"Certified Food Protection Manager (Teton County) — not a food handler card","date":"2026-05-19","date_kind":"version-expired","date_kind_label":"statute version expired","detected":"2026-08-12","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Teton County rewrote its food rule and moved the manager-certification duty onto whoever is in charge — and published it at a new URL, so our monitor never saw it","id":"wy-teton-2026-05-19-food-rule-2026","instrument":"Teton County, Wyoming Food Safety Rule (FOOD RULE 2026), Ch.1 §9 and §11, adopted by the Teton County Board of Health May 19, 2026, superseding the 2014 rule as amended October 2017","jurisdiction":"Wyoming","occupations":["food-handler"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our snapshot of the monitored document is unchanged across every sweep — and that is the finding, not a gap in it. We monitor DocumentCenter/View/5178, the 2014/Oct-2017 edition, which still responds normally and serves the identical 1,823,121-byte PDF. The county did not edit that document; it published a different one at /View/41690. A version-pinned URL cannot express supersession, so the sweep correctly reported 'no change' about a document that had been replaced. This is the inverse of our standing rule that a URL is monitorable only when the URL determines the content: here the URL over-determines it, pinning one edition forever."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-08-12-A001"],"on":"2026-08-12","outcome":"wy-food-handler was corrected against the 2026 rule the same day, and the county's Regulations index page was added to the page's cited sources so that a future edition change becomes visible to the weekly monitor. The state-level facts were independently re-read on the same day and stand unchanged. The Cheyenne and Laramie County reports were not re-verified and keep their existing hedge.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Teton County, Wyoming — Environmental Health","url":"https://www.tetoncountywy.gov/2708/Regulations"},"summary":"The Teton County Board of Health adopted FOOD RULE 2026 on May 19, 2026, replacing the 2014 rules as amended October 2017. The certified-food-protection-manager duty moved from 'at least one employee that has supervisory and management responsibility' to 'the person in charge' — who must be present during all hours of operation — and a departing manager must now be replaced within ninety days.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#wy-teton-2026-05-19-food-rule-2026","who_is_affected":"Teton County, Wyoming food establishments and the people who run their shifts. Under the superseded rule one certified supervisor satisfied the mandate; the rule now attaches the certification to the person in charge, and a person in charge must be present during all operating hours. Statewide the answer is unchanged: Wyoming requires no individual food handler card, and being a certified food protection manager remains voluntary under the state rule (Wyoming Food Safety Rule Ch.1 §10(a), re-read 2026-08-12)."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"id-food-handler","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/food-handler/id-food-handler/"}],"after":"The Act governs homemade food sold direct to consumers, including 'perishable food' as 37-203(7) defines it (homemade food and drinks that require time or temperature control at 41°F or below or 135°F or above); 37-205 sets the disclosure requirements; and 37-204(3) limits the trade: homemade food may not be used as an ingredient in a food establishment, and dairy and raw-milk sales are allowed only in compliance with their own chapters of title 37.","before":"The exemption was described under the old IDAPA cottage-food rule: non-time/temperature-control-for-safety foods only, sold with a label or placard, with 39-1602(2) stated as carrying the same exclusions.","credential":"Food establishment licensing — homemade food exemption","date":"2026-03-20","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-07-27","detected_at":"https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/health-wellness/community-health/food-safety","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"Idaho replaced its cottage-food rule with a new Direct-to-Consumer Commerce Act","id":"id-2026-03-20-sb1283-cottage-food","instrument":"Idaho Code title 37 ch. 2 (Direct-to-Consumer Commerce Act) and Idaho Code 39-1602, as enacted and amended by SB 1283 (2026 ch. 91)","jurisdiction":"Idaho","occupations":["food-handler"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"The superseded IDAPA rule text remained published after the Act took effect; our page now attributes that lag rather than presenting the rule as current law."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-07-27-A003"],"on":"2026-07-27","outcome":"Our Idaho food-handler exemptions section had been stale since March 20, 2026 — four months — and was rewritten against the Act.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Idaho Department of Health and Welfare","url":"https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/health-wellness/community-health/food-safety"},"summary":"SB 1283 (2026 ch. 91), signed and effective March 20, 2026, enacted the Direct-to-Consumer Commerce Act at Idaho Code title 37 chapter 2, superseding the IDAPA 16.02.19 cottage-food rule, and amended Idaho Code 39-1602 so that producers operating under the new act are excluded from the definition of 'food establishment' (39-1602(2)(h)).","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#id-2026-03-20-sb1283-cottage-food","who_is_affected":"Idahoans selling homemade food direct to consumers, and food establishments that might otherwise buy homemade product as an ingredient."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"sc-alcohol-server","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/alcohol-server/sc-alcohol-server/"}],"after":"The joint resolution reads, in full: \"A JOINT RESOLUTION TO EXTEND THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIVING ALCOHOL SERVER TRAINING AS PROVIDED FOR IN CHAPTER 3, TITLE 61 TO MAY 1, 2026. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: Extension of alcohol server training deadline SECTION 1. The deadline to receive alcohol server training as provided for in Chapter 3, Title 61 is extended to May 1, 2026. Time effective SECTION 2. This joint resolution takes effect upon approval by the Governor. Ratified the 5th day of March, 2026. Approved the 9th day of March, 2026.\"","before":"Alcohol server training became mandatory in South Carolina under 2025 Act No. 42 (H. 3430, the Tort Reform and Liquor Liability act), whose server-training provisions took effect January 1, 2026 and set an earlier compliance date for existing servers.","credential":"South Carolina alcohol server certificate - required of servers and managers at premises licensed or permitted for on-premises consumption, administered by the South Carolina Department of Revenue under S.C. Code Ann. Title 61, Chapter 3","date":"2026-03-09","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-08-24","detected_at":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/5261.htm","detected_by":"monitor","headline":"South Carolina pushed its alcohol server training deadline to May 1, 2026 by joint resolution - and only numbered the act in August","id":"sc-2026-03-09-act-265-server-training-deadline","instrument":"2026 Act No. 265 (Joint Resolution R113, H. 5261), amending the compliance deadline under S.C. Code Ann. Title 61, Chapter 3. Ratified March 5, 2026; approved by the Governor March 9, 2026; effective on approval.","jurisdiction":"South Carolina","occupations":["alcohol-server"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"snapshot","note":"Our 2026-08-03 capture of the bill page carried the enrolled text and the legislative history through \"3/9/2026 Signed By Governor\", with the caption reading \"(R113, H5261)\" and no act number. The 2026-08-25 capture adds \"A265\" to the caption and two history rows: \"3/10/2026 Effective date 03/09/26\" and \"8/19/2026 Act No. 265\". The four-opcode difference between those two captures is the entire change to the page; the resolution's text is identical in both."},"review":{"on":"2026-09-01","outcome":"Read directly from the General Assembly's bill page on 2026-09-01; the text returned is identical to the copy we held when the change was detected. The event is dated from the resolution's own words - \"Approved the 9th day of March, 2026\" together with SECTION 2's \"takes effect upon approval by the Governor\" - and NOT from August 19, which is the day the act number was written onto the page. No LicensingAtlas page was falsified: sc-alcohol-server already stated the May 1, 2026 deadline, the March 9 signature and effective date, and the August 19 act-number assignment.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"South Carolina General Assembly (South Carolina Statehouse), bill page for H. 5261 of the 126th Session","url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/5261.htm"},"summary":"Act No. 265 of 2026, a one-section joint resolution, extended the deadline for receiving alcohol server training under S.C. Code Ann. Title 61, Chapter 3 to May 1, 2026; the Governor approved it on March 9, 2026 and it took effect that day, but the General Assembly's bill page did not carry the act number until August 19, 2026.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#sc-2026-03-09-act-265-server-training-deadline","who_is_affected":"Every alcohol server and manager at a South Carolina business licensed or permitted for on-premises consumption. The extended date has now passed, so the practical position is the steady-state one: a covered worker must hold a Department-approved server certificate, and a worker hired after May 1, 2026 has thirty days from hire to complete the training. The extension is still worth recording because it moved the date on which existing servers fell out of compliance, and because a reader checking the statute today will find the deadline in a separate joint resolution rather than in Chapter 3 itself."},{"affected_pages":[{"id":"mt-hvac","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/hvac/mt-hvac/"}],"after":"The department states: 'Effective January 1, 2026 All construction contractors in the state of Montana are required to be licensed with the Montana Department of Labor \u0026 Industry. Construction Contractors that had an active Montana registration as of December 31, 2025, have been converted to the new license.' It describes the law as having 'comprehensively overhauled construction contractor regulations in the state' and as having 'transitioned the state's construction contractor system from a basic registration framework to an official licensing program managed by the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI).' The statutory purpose is now 'to protect the public health, safety, and welfare of the public through the regulation of construction contractors' (MCA 37-45-101, effective January 1, 2026), and the department has adopted conduct rules for licensees at ARM 24.227.2301. The programme is published at https://boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/construction-contractor/ and the former registration page at erd.dli.mt.gov no longer resolves.","before":"Montana required construction businesses with employees to hold a Construction Contractor Registration, administered by the Department of Labor and Industry's Employment Relations Division and published at erd.dli.mt.gov. The department described it as a workers' compensation compliance credential rather than a competency credential, and its programme page stated that no test was required.","credential":"Montana Construction Contractor License (CCL), formerly Construction Contractor Registration - the credential a construction business with employees must hold, including an HVAC business, since Montana licenses no HVAC trade credential of its own","date":"2026-01-01","date_kind":"statute-effective","date_kind_label":"statute effective","detected":"2026-09-05","detected_at":"","detected_by":"audit","headline":"Montana's contractor registration became a Construction Contractor License on January 1, 2026, and the programme has moved to the Department's licensing portal","id":"mt-2026-01-01-construction-contractor-license","instrument":"House Bill 239, 2025 session (Ch. 644, L. 2025), enacting MCA Title 37, chapter 45; the department's Construction Contractor License (CCL) programme page and its Construction Contractor Program FAQ (REV. 05/19/2026); fees at ARM 24.227.401; conduct rules at ARM 24.227.2301.","jurisdiction":"Montana","occupations":["hvac"],"prior_evidence":{"kind":"board-publication","note":"The move was first visible to us on 2026-08-17, when the department's licensing portal added 'Construction Contractor' and 'Independent Contractor Exemption Certificate (ICEC) Program' to the 'Choose a Board or Program' list that appears on every page of boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov. The programme page and its FAQ corroborate each other on the effective date and the $70 fee, and the FAQ carries its own revision stamp, 'REV. 05/19/2026'. The statutory sections the department reprints - 37-45-101, 37-45-102, 37-45-202 and 37-45-203 - are each marked '(Effective January 1, 2026)'."},"review":{"ledger":["D-2026-09-05-A009"],"on":"2026-09-05","outcome":"Corrected the same day (ledger D-2026-09-05-A009). mt-hvac had said the credential 'changed its name, though not its substance' and quoted the retired registration page's description of the certificate as 'not a license' in five places; the page now states the license, its statutory purpose (MCA 37-45-101), who must hold it and the $70 fee in the department's current words, cites the Business Standards Division programme page and FAQ in place of the URL that now returns 404, and keeps - as a sourced negative - that no examination, education or experience requirement appears in MCA 37-45 or the department's materials. The license term under ARM 24.227 could not be read and is stated as unconfirmed.","status":"reviewed"},"source":{"publisher":"Montana Department of Labor and Industry, Business Standards Division","url":"https://boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/construction-contractor/"},"summary":"House Bill 239 replaced Montana's construction contractor registration with a Construction Contractor License, effective January 1, 2026. Businesses that held an active registration on December 31, 2025 were converted automatically. The programme has moved from the Department of Labor and Industry's Employment Relations Division to its Business Standards Division licensing portal, where the department now publishes the programme page and its FAQ; the old registration page has been retired. The application and renewal fee remains $70.","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/#mt-2026-01-01-construction-contractor-license","who_is_affected":"Any construction business operating in Montana with employees, including corporations and manager-managed limited liability companies whose only employees are their officers or managers - and therefore any HVAC business, because Montana licenses no HVAC, mechanical, heating, air conditioning or refrigeration trade credential. Existing registrants did not have to reapply. The fee did not change: the department's Construction Contractor Program FAQ states 'Fees per 24.227.401 are $70 for application and renewal'. Nothing in the programme page, the FAQ or MCA Title 37 chapter 45 imposes an examination, so the credential still does not test trade competency; what changed is that it is now a license, with the conduct standards and adjudicative process that go with one."}],"generated_from":{"detections_recorded":2547,"first_detection":"2026-07-11","last_detection":"2026-09-28","monitored_source_urls":3426,"sources_changed":1273},"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","name":"LicensingAtlas — reviewed regulatory changes","note":"Only human-reviewed events appear here. The raw detection log on the HTML page is a monitoring feed, not a list of regulatory changes.","publisher":"LicensingAtlas — How to get licensed, state by state","url":"https://licensingatlas.com/changes/"}