How to Verify a Florida Mold License

General information, not legal, medical, engineering or insurance advice.

Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) licenses mold assessors and mold remediators. Checking a license takes a couple of minutes and is free. Here's how to do it, what the results mean, and what else Florida law requires of licensees.

The two license types

Mold Assessor (MRSA): a person who performs or directly supervises a mold assessment.^1,2
Mold Remediator (MRSR): a person who performs mold remediation.^1,2

License numbers begin with the type code, for example MRSA followed by digits for an assessor and MRSR followed by digits for a remediator. Licenses are issued to individuals, not companies,³ so look up the person who will do or supervise the work, and ask for their license number.

How to look up a license

Go to the DBPR license search on myfloridalicense.com.
Search by the person's name or by license number.
Open the result and check the license type (Mold Assessor or Mold Remediator), the status and the expiration date.
Make sure the name matches the person named in your quote or contract, and that the license type fits the job you're hiring for.

DBPR also publishes a downloadable file of mold-related services licensees on its public records page. Our directory is built from that file, and every listing links back to the lookup.

What “current” and “active” mean

A current, active license is one that has been renewed and isn't inactive, suspended or revoked. We list only licenses that were current and active, and unexpired, in the file we used. Some things to know:

Renewal: licenses renew every two years.⁴ DBPR says mold assessor and remediator licenses expire July 31 of every even-numbered year.² Renewal requires at least 14 hours of continuing education in the two years before renewal.⁵
Inactive: a licensee can ask DBPR to place a license in inactive status.⁶Practicing on a revoked, suspended, inactive or delinquent license is grounds for discipline.⁷
Discipline: DBPR can reprimand, fine, put on probation, restrict, suspend or revoke a license.⁷

Who doesn't need a mold license

Section 468.841, Florida Statutes, exempts some people from the licensing rules, including:⁹

A residential property owner doing mold assessment or remediation on their own property.
People working on property owned, leased or managed by themselves or their employer (or an affiliate), unless they offer the service to the public.
An employee of a licensed assessor or remediator while directly supervised by that licensee.
People acting within the scope of certain other licenses (including chapter 489 construction contractors, chapter 471 engineers, part I of chapter 481 architects and chapter 482 pest control), people acting for an insurer under part VI of chapter 626, and some manufactured housing licensees, except when they hold themselves out to the public with a mold assessor or remediator title.
Government and school employees working within the scope of their employment, as long as they don't offer the service to the public.

If someone tells you they're exempt, ask which exemption applies and check the license they rely on. Anyone who calls themselves a mold assessor or mold remediator should hold the matching license.

Insurance Florida requires

Section 468.8421, Florida Statutes, sets minimum insurance for each license type:¹⁰

Mold assessors: general liability and errors and omissions coverage for both preliminary and post-remediation mold assessment, of at least $1 million.
Mold remediators: a general liability policy of not less than $1,000,000 that includes specific coverage for mold-related claims.

Ask for a certificate of insurance before work starts, and check that it's current.

Get the contract in writing

Florida requires a contract for mold assessment or mold remediation to be in a document or electronic record, signed or otherwise authenticated by the parties.¹¹ See our questions to ask before hiring for what to put in it.

Sources

Florida Statutes (2026), section 468.8411, Definitions.
Florida DBPR, Mold-Related Services (license types MRSA and MRSR; “Licenses expire July 31st every even year”).
Florida Statutes (2026), section 468.8418, Certification of partnerships and corporations.
Florida Statutes (2026), section 468.8415, Renewal of license.
Florida Statutes (2026), section 468.8416, Continuing education.
Florida Statutes (2026), section 468.8417, Inactive license.
Florida Statutes (2026), section 468.842, Disciplinary proceedings.
Florida Statutes (2026), section 468.8419, Prohibitions; penalties, paragraphs (1)(c) and (2)(c).
Florida Statutes (2026), section 468.841, Exemptions.
Florida Statutes (2026), section 468.8421, Insurance.
Florida Statutes (2026), section 468.8422, Contracts.
Florida DBPR, license search and mold-related services public records.