Do you need a mold inspector license in Louisiana?

Louisiana licenses mold remediation and not mold assessment, and the single statutory duty it places on an assessment report is that the report exists and reaches the person who paid for it.

Who needs a Louisiana license

Mold remediation is a licensed contractor classification administered by the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors under the contractor licensing law. The license is required where the value of the remediation work exceeds $7,500, and the board's classification also requires twenty-four hours of approved training in mold remediation and assessment.

There is no separate Louisiana mold-assessor license. An inspector who assesses, samples and writes a protocol — and does not perform the remediation — is not licensed under this regime, and typically carries a voluntary IICRC or ACAC certification instead.

Cited: La. R.S. 37:2150.1 et seq. (Mold Remediation)

The one report duty Louisiana imposes

R.S. 37:2187(A), in full: "A person who performs mold assessment services shall provide a written report to each person for whom he performs such services for compensation."

That is a delivery duty, not a contents list. Louisiana requires the report to be written and to be given to the client, and says nothing about what goes in it. Note also its reach: by its own terms it binds any person who performs mold assessment services for compensation, which is a wider set than the people who need a Louisiana license.

So the practical Louisiana failure is not an incomplete report. It is a verbal walkthrough, a photograph text thread, or an invoice with findings in the description line — none of which is a written report provided to the client.

Cited: La. R.S. 37:2187(A)

You may not clear your own work

R.S. 37:2187(B) bars the same licensee from performing both the mold assessment and the mold remediation on the same property, and extends the bar to commonly owned businesses so it cannot be satisfied by routing the second half of the job through a second entity.

Louisiana arrives at the same place as Texas, New York, the District and Florida by a different route. Every US jurisdiction that regulates mold work at all has decided that the party who removed the material may not be the party who certifies the removal succeeded.

Cited: La. R.S. 37:2187(B)

What MoldMind does about it

MoldMind's compliance checklist shows nothing on a Louisiana job, because Louisiana prescribes no report contents and asserting otherwise would be inventing law. What the product does supply is the thing R.S. 37:2187(A) actually asks for: a written report, per visit, ready to send to the client from the job it belongs to.

Nothing here certifies your work, and no software can. Compliance is a legal conclusion; the checklist catches omissions, and the judgment and the signature stay yours.

Statutes on this page were read at the issuing authority on August 7, 2026. Rules change; verify before relying on any of it.

Licensing summary

Louisiana licenses mold remediation contractors through the State Licensing Board for Contractors under the contractor-licensing law (La. R.S. 37:2150.1 et seq.). The requirement attaches to remediation work whose value exceeds $7,500; Louisiana does not maintain a separate mold-ASSESSOR license, so an inspector who only assesses and samples (and does not perform remediation) is not licensed under this regime. Assessors typically carry a voluntary IICRC or ACAC certification instead.

Is a license required?

Louisiana does not license mold inspectors or assessors at the state level. Mold remediation is a licensed contractor classification with the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors where the value of the work exceeds $7,500, and the classification requires twenty-four hours of board-approved training in mold remediation and assessment. Assessment itself carries no Louisiana license. Under La. R.S. 37:2158(A)(23) it is a violation for a mold remediation CONTRACTOR to perform both mold assessment and mold remediation on the same property, to own an interest in both the assessing and the remediating entity, or to fail to give a written report to each person it serves for compensation — so a remediation contractor cannot clear its own work, though the prohibition runs to the licensed contractor rather than to an independent assessor.

Regulating authority: Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors (Mold Remediation) (La. R.S. 37:2150.1 et seq. (Mold Remediation)).

Official source

Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors (Mold Remediation)

Common questions

Do you need a license to be a mold inspector in Louisiana?

Louisiana issues no state mold-inspector license, so there is no state exam to sit — but that does not mean no credential is required. Mold remediation is a licensed contractor classification with the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors where the value of the work exceeds $7,500, and the classification requires twenty-four hours of board-approved training in mold remediation and assessment. Assessment itself carries no Louisiana license. Under La. R.S. 37:2158(A)(23) it is a violation for a mold remediation CONTRACTOR to perform both mold assessment and mold remediation on the same property, to own an interest in both the assessing and the remediating entity, or to fail to give a written report to each person it serves for compensation — so a remediation contractor cannot clear its own work, though the prohibition runs to the licensed contractor rather than to an independent assessor.

Who regulates mold inspection in Louisiana?

Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors (Mold Remediation) administers the program; official guidance is published at https://www.lslbc.louisiana.gov/.