Florida Contractor Licenses - DBPR Construction Register

Florida Contractor Licenses - DBPR Construction Register (Board 06)

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) publishes its entire current construction-industry licensee file as a public record under Chapter 119, Florida Statutes - every certified and registered contractor, plus the qualified business organizations behind them - refreshed weekly. This actor turns that register into a charged-per-record lookup and screening tool.

Built for: contractor due diligence - verifying that a contractor actually holds a current Florida license, screening suspended and probationary licenses, corporate / qualifying-individual research, construction-industry onboarding and compliance checks, and statewide market sizing.

What it covers

265,134 rows (current register, operator-refreshed snapshot - 2026-11-06):

Occupation	What it is	Rows
Qualified Business Organization	a business qualified through a qualifying individual (no license number of its own)	128,847
Certified General Contractor	CGC	36,155
Financial Responsible Officer	FRO	19,567
Certified Building Contractor	CBC	18,079
Certified Air Conditioning Contractor	CAC	11,681
Certified Roofing Contractor	CCC	10,487

...plus certified mechanical, pool/spa, residential, sheet metal, utility & excavation, solar, specialty and pollutant-storage contractors, the registered (RA / RB / RC / RF / RG / RM / RP / RR / RS / RU / RX) tier, tank contractors, course providers and CILB courses. Roughly half the file - 128,847 rows - is qualified business organizations, which carry no license number of their own; the other 136,287 rows hold a license number.

Every row carries the licensee / business name, the doing-business-as name, the license number, occupation, class code, mailing address, city, state, ZIP, decoded county, primary status (current / suspended / probation), secondary status (active / inactive), and original-licensure, effective and expiration dates. Dates come through as clean ISO (YYYY-MM-DD).

The register ships as raw codes - Florida's file has no header row, stores the county as a number (not a name), and the license status as a letter. This actor decodes all of it: 23 -> Miami-Dade, C -> Current, S -> Suspended, and a class code like GLZ -> Glass & Glazing Specialty. Out-of-state licensees are resolved to their home state (744 -> Texas).

Typical questions

• "Is this contractor's license current in Florida - and is it suspended or on probation?"
• "Show every certified general contractor in Lee County."
• "Which businesses are qualified under this qualifying individual?"
• "Look up license CBC006261."
• "Find contractors carrying a specialty class - glass & glazing, irrigation, marine, pool."
• "How are licensed contractors distributed across Florida's 67 counties?"

Inputs

Input	What it does
licenseNumber	exact license number -> that contractor's row(s), e.g. CBC006261 (case and punctuation ignored; leading zeros are significant). The bare 7-digit sequence (e.g. 0006261) also matches, but can map to more than one licence across occupations
name	licensee or DBA name substring, case-insensitive
occupation	occupation code (CGC, CBC, CAC, SCC, QB, FRO ...)
classCode	class code (A / B / C, or a specialty code). The same letter means different things in different occupations, so combine it with occupation
county / countyCode	county by decoded name, or by DBPR numeric code
city / state / zipCode	location filters (out-of-state licensees carry their home state)
status	C = Current, S = Suspended, P = Probation
secondaryStatus	A = Active, I = Inactive
licensedOnly	true = only license-holding rows; false = only qualified business organizations
aggregate / groupBy	one summary row per group with a count - occupation / county / status / class
maxResults	cap records (default 200)

Default run = a tiny aggregate (occupation mix) - fast and safe for the daily auto-test, never a surprise full dump. For records, add a name / county / occupation filter or a licenseNumber.

Example inputs

Look up one license number - returns that contractor's row(s); a 7-digit sequence can return more than one licence, so pass the composed number when you have it.

{ "licenseNumber": "CBC006261" }

Certified general contractors in Lee County - 1,746 today; totalMatched on each row shows the full count. Results are the first maxResults matches (max 20,000) - there is no offset paging, so raise maxResults to widen.

{ "occupation": "CGC", "county": "Lee", "maxResults": 50 }

Screen suspended licenses - 225 today; status=S returns them all when maxResults is high enough.

{ "status": "S", "maxResults": 300 }

The occupation mix - one summary row per occupation, across the register.

{ "aggregate": true, "groupBy": "occupation" }

groupBy=county includes out-of-state licence buckets (other states, territories and foreign addresses) alongside Florida's 67 counties; add "state": "FL" to keep only Florida counties.

Low cost

From $0.00005 per record, down to $0.00003 at Gold - billed only for the rows you use, and each record is metered individually.

Florida's register is a 46 MB, headerless flat file with no query server behind it - there is no way to ask the state for "just Lee County general contractors". Rather than make every lookup pay for a full-register download, the register is mirrored by the operator, and each run queries the mirror in a single pass. That mirror is what lets a 265,134-row register behave like a live lookup at per-record pricing. Every user pull checks the corpus header and row total against the register's known shape (the row total recorded by the owner warm - 265,134 at the 2026-11-06 refresh - or a 230,000-row floor when that small record is unavailable), so a truncated, swapped or half-written mirror fails loudly instead of returning a short or empty answer. The snapshot is readable on each record as refreshed; a mirror older than 14 days fails rather than answering with stale licence status. County names are matched case- and punctuation-insensitively (Miami Dade = Miami-Dade).

Example output

licenseNumber=CBC006261 - a certified building contractor:

{
 "platform": "fl-dbpr",
 "source": "fl-dbpr-construction",
 "dataState": "FL",
 "licenseNumber": "CBC006261",
 "licenseSequence": "0006261",
 "occupationCode": "CBC",
 "occupation": "Certified Building Contractor",
 "licenseeName": "ERGLE, GERALD K",
 "dbaName": "",
 "classCode": "",
 "classDescription": "",
 "address1": "3631 SE 12TH PLACE",
 "address2": "",
 "address3": "",
 "city": "OCALA",
 "state": "FL",
 "zipCode": "34471",
 "countyCode": "52",
 "county": "Marion",
 "primaryStatus": "C",
 "primaryStatusMeaning": "Current",
 "secondaryStatus": "I",
 "secondaryStatusMeaning": "Inactive",
 "originalLicensureDate": "",
 "effectiveDate": "2026-08-11",
 "expirationDate": "2028-08-31",
 "refreshed": "2026-11-06",
 "mode": "record",
 "groupKey": "",
 "groupCount": "",
 "groupBy": "",
 "totalMatched": "1"
}

aggregate=true, groupBy=occupation - the register's occupation mix:

Qualified Business Organization            128,847
Certified General Contractor                36,155
Financial Responsible Officer              19,567
Certified Building Contractor               18,079
Certified Air Conditioning Contractor       11,681

Personal data and corrections

Most licensed contractors are individuals: roughly half the rows name a person (LAST, FIRST) rather than a company, and the register includes the mailing address DBPR publishes for the licence. This is the state's own public record under Chapter 119, F.S.; the actor adds no contact details, officers or anything not already in the file. Run metadata (a run id, stage and error type - not the records themselves) is reported to the operator's monitoring endpoint; your result set is never sent anywhere else.

Corrections and removal. The register is published by DBPR. If a record is wrong, or you need an entry suppressed, contact the publisher through the actor's Issues tab; we forward verifiable correction and removal requests to DBPR and reply within 10 working days.

One licence number is not always one row. A licensee can hold several licences, and 140 CRS1 course-provider licence numbers each appear twice in the source itself (280 rows). Use occupationCode and licenseSequence to disambiguate; totalMatched on each row tells you whether your filter matched more than the page you received.

Source

• DBPR Licensee Download Files - the official weekly public extract this actor reads.
• License data is DBPR's own published register; it reflects the state's record as of the refreshedDate on each record.