Where a Florida master plumber license transfers

Florida has no license called 'master plumber'. The highest person-held plumbing credential is the certificate of competency as a Certified Plumbing Contractor (occupation code CF), issued by the Construction Industry Licensing Board within DBPR to an individual who meets the experience requirement of s. 489.111 (typically four years as a worker or foreman with at least one year as a foreman, or a degree plus one year) and passes the two-part Florida exam (Business and Finance, and Plumbing Trade Knowledge) through Professional Testing and Pearson VUE. The certificate belongs to the person, who may then qualify a business, and is valid statewide. Alongside it, counties and municipalities examine and certify their own plumbing contractors (Miami-Dade's Construction Trades Qualifying Board plumbing/master cards), whose holders register with DBPR as Registered Plumbing Contractors (RF) and may work only in the jurisdictions that issued the local card, which is why this level is marked Hybrid. Florida's only contractor reciprocity agreements (Louisiana, North Carolina and Mississippi) cover General, Building and Residential licenses; CILB 32 is not offered under Plumbing. Out-of-state plumbing contractors use endorsement on Form CILB 10 under s. 489.115(3): the Board may waive the Florida exam if the origin exam or licensing criteria are found substantially equivalent (a route the form calls 'very stringent and rarely approved'), or waives it for a same-or-similar license held at least 10 years. Everyone else sits the Florida exams. Certified plumbing licenses renew at $205 plus $50 per qualified business, expire August 31 of even years, and require 14 hours of continuing education per biennium.