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How do you check a mold remediation license in Florida?

Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) licenses and regulates mold remediators and mold assessors. You can look one up on DBPR's Online Services search, by name or by license number, as an optional public-record step. The state text on who needs this license, and who does not, is quoted below.

Source: Florida DBPR, mold-related services page, read 22 October 2026.
Source: Florida DBPR, Online Services license search, read 22 October 2026.

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Who licenses Florida mold remediators, and for what work?

DBPR's mold-related services page, read 22 October 2026, puts it in one line: "The Department of Business and Professional Regulation is responsible for licensing and regulating mold assessors and mold remediators."

Source: Florida DBPR, mold-related services page, read 22 October 2026.

The same page gives a short definition of each license type. For remediators: "MRSR – A “Mold Remediator” means any person who performs mold remediation."

Source: Florida DBPR, mold-related services page, read 22 October 2026.

For assessors: "MRSA – A “Mold Assessor” means any person who performs or directly supervises a mold assessment."

Source: Florida DBPR, mold-related services page, read 22 October 2026.

For the work itself, the Florida Senate's copy of the 2026 Florida Statutes, read 22 October 2026, gives the definitions in section 468.8411, F.S. Subsection (5) reads: "“Mold remediation” means the removal, cleaning, sanitizing, demolition, or other treatment, including preventive activities, of mold or mold-contaminated matter of greater than 10 square feet that was not purposely grown at that location; however, such removal, cleaning, sanitizing, demolition, or other treatment, including preventive activities, may not be work that requires a license under chapter 489 unless performed by a person who is licensed under that chapter or the work complies with that chapter."

Source: The Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 468.8411, read 22 October 2026.

Subsection (6) of the same section reads: "A mold remediator may not perform any work that requires a license under chapter 489 unless the mold remediator is also licensed under that chapter or complies with that chapter."

Source: The Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 468.8411, read 22 October 2026.

What may a Florida mold remediator not do?

The Senate's copy of section 468.8419, F.S., read 22 October 2026, opens subsection (2) with this lead-in: "A mold remediator, a company that employs a mold remediator, or a company that is controlled by a company that also has a financial interest in a company employing a mold remediator may not:"

Source: The Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 468.8419, read 22 October 2026.

Paragraph (b) reads: "Perform or offer to perform any mold remediation unless the person has complied with the provisions of this part."

Source: The Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 468.8419, read 22 October 2026.

Paragraph (c) reads: "Use the name or title “certified mold remediator,” “registered mold remediator,” “licensed mold remediator,” “mold remediator,” “professional mold remediator,” or any combination thereof unless the person has complied with the provisions of this part."

Source: The Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 468.8419, read 22 October 2026.

Paragraph (d) is about testing and removal on the same structure. Its first sentence reads: "Perform or offer to perform any mold assessment to a structure on which the mold remediator or the mold remediator’s company provided a mold remediation within the last 12 months."

Source: The Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 468.8419, read 22 October 2026.

The next sentence of paragraph (d) reads: "This paragraph does not apply to a certified contractor who is classified in s. 489.105(3) as a Division I contractor."

Source: The Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 468.8419, read 22 October 2026.

On contracts, the Senate's copy of section 468.8422, F.S., read the same day, reads: "A contract to perform mold assessment or mold remediation shall be in a document or electronic record, signed or otherwise authenticated by the parties."

Source: The Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 468.8422, read 22 October 2026.

Who can do mold remediation without a Florida mold license?

The exemptions sit in section 468.841, F.S., in the same Senate copy, read 22 October 2026. Subsection (2) opens: "The following persons are not required to comply with any provisions of this part relating to mold remediation:"

Source: The Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 468.841, read 22 October 2026.

Paragraph (a) reads: "A residential property owner who performs mold remediation on his or her own property."

Source: The Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 468.841, read 22 October 2026.

Paragraph (d) reads: "Persons or business organizations that are acting within the scope of the respective licenses required under chapter 471, part I of chapter 481, chapter 482, chapter 489, or part XV of this chapter, are acting on behalf of an insurer under part VI of chapter 626, or are persons in the manufactured housing industry who are licensed under chapter 320, except when any such persons or business organizations hold themselves out for hire to the public as a “certified mold remediator,” “registered mold remediator,” “licensed mold remediator,” “mold remediator,” “professional mold remediator,” or any combination thereof stating or implying licensure under this part."

Source: The Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 468.841, read 22 October 2026.

How do you search a Florida mold remediator on DBPR's site?

The DBPR license search page, read 22 October 2026, asks you to pick a search type first. Two of them fit here: Search by License Number, when you have a number in writing, and Search by Name, when you only have the name the remediator works under.

Source: Florida DBPR, Online Services license search, read 22 October 2026.

DBPR describes what the site holds: "The DBPR Online Services website provides information about applicants and licensed individuals for those professions and businesses that are regulated by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation."

Source: Florida DBPR, Online Services license search, read 22 October 2026.

So a name in the results may belong to an applicant, not only to a license holder. And a person covered by one of the exemptions quoted above may hold no mold license at all, so a search for one can come back empty.

Source: The Florida Senate, 2026 Florida Statutes, section 468.841, read 22 October 2026.
Source: Florida DBPR, Online Services license search, read 22 October 2026.

For complaints, DBPR's mold-related services page says: "The Division of Regulation is responsible for complaint analysis and investigations, and the Office of the General Counsel provides prosecutorial services for disciplinary cases."

Source: Florida DBPR, mold-related services page, read 22 October 2026.

What should you ask a Florida mold remediator before work starts?

These are practical suggestions, not DBPR rules; the contract and same-structure points come from the statute text quoted above.

  1. Ask for the remediator's license number and the name it is issued under, in writing.
  2. Run Search by License Number on DBPR's Online Services; if you only have a name, run Search by Name.
  3. Ask whether the same company did a mold assessment on your home within the period in paragraph (d), quoted above.
  4. Get the contract as a signed document or electronic record before work starts.
  5. Keep a note of each search you ran with your contract.

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