Texas licenses contractors through the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), whose dataset covers nearly a million records across every credential type TDLR regulates. Within that, 'Electrical Contractor' is a real, distinct, business-level license — a genuine tested credential, confirmed directly against TDLR's own published data.
That's the only trade this site currently lists for Texas, and it's worth explaining exactly why, including a data limitation that's specific to this site rather than a gap in Texas licensing generally. Texas has no statewide general-contractor or plumbing license at all — both are regulated locally, at the city or county level, with requirements that vary by jurisdiction. TDLR does license 'A/C Contractors' statewide, which would normally be the real HVAC business license for Texas — but every A/C Contractor record in TDLR's published data has a completely empty address, city, and ZIP field, listing only a county name. Since this site's entire URL structure is built around city-level pages, a listing with no city can never be reached through this site's design, so Texas HVAC listings aren't included yet — not because the license isn't real, but because the published data isn't structurally compatible with how this site organizes listings.
TDLR also doesn't publish a license status field directly for electrical contractors; status on Texas listings is derived from the license expiration date instead (the same fallback approach used for Florida), which is why you'll see 'active' or 'expired' on Texas profiles even though TDLR's own file doesn't literally say either word.
TDLR's electrical contractor data is fully live and automated, refreshed on a recurring schedule. To verify any Texas electrical contractor directly, TDLR maintains its own license search tool by name or license number — worth checking directly since this site derives status rather than reading it verbatim from the state.
If you're looking for a general contractor, plumber, or HVAC company in Texas, your city or county building department is the right place to check local licensing and permitting requirements, since none of those three have a bulk-verifiable statewide license the way electrical contracting does.
One thing this is worth being transparent about: as Texas's open-data access improves, or if TDLR's A/C Contractor file ever includes usable location data, HVAC coverage for Texas is a natural next addition — the licensing exists, the data access is the current blocker, not the trade itself being unregulated.