Moving to Utah as a journeyman HVAC technician: every state's rule
Utah does not issue a statewide journeyman HVAC technician license, so there is no reciprocity to speak of. Here is what that means in practice.
Utah journeyman HVAC technician
No individual license at this level
Issued by Utah Division of Professional Licensing (contractor licensing only)
Utah does not issue a journeyman HVAC or HVAC technician license. The Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL) licenses journeyman and master electricians and plumbers, but for heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration it licenses only the contractor (the H100 HVAC classification, formerly listed as S350), which is issued to a business and qualified by a named individual. HVAC technicians work as employees of a licensed HVAC contractor without any personal state license, so an out-of-state journeyman or technician license has nothing to transfer to and is neither required nor recognized for employment. A journeyman who wants to contract independently must obtain an H100 contractor license (see the master level). Anyone handling refrigerants must hold federal EPA Section 608 certification, which Utah does not administer.