General contractor license requirements, cited to the statute
CredentialGC documents what it actually takes to get and keep a general contractor license — fees, exams, experience, insurance, and continuing-education rules — with every fact linked to the statute, board rule, or official form it comes from, and a last-verified date. Where course providers are worth comparing, we compare them neutrally, including vendors that pay us nothing.
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State guides
Florida general contractor license requirements
The anchor guide: Certified (CGC) requirements, how HB 735 narrowed (not closed) the registered path, 14-hour biennial CE with mandatory topics, and renewal fees from the DBPR insert.
Georgia general contractor license requirements
Tiers and net worth from the Board rules — including the Limited-Tier $1M correction — plus the fact most CE vendors won't tell you: commercial GCs owe zero CE hours.
North Carolina general contractor license requirements
The strictest CE state here: 8 hours every year, a Board-produced 2-hour course, tier/bond table, and the NASCLA exam shortcut.
Tennessee general contractor license requirements
No fixed tiers — your monetary limit is 10× the lesser of working capital and net worth, straight from the Board's formula. Plus the $25,000 bidding threshold and why CE here is residential-only.
Four states for now — Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. If these guides prove useful, more states follow; we'd rather publish a few verified pages than fifty thin ones.
State data last verified 2026-07-02.
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