Florida Contractor License Continuing Education

A Florida certified contractor license renews on completion of 14 hours of continuing education, due on the same biennial cycle as the renewal fee. The DBPR CILB’s Certified Contractors renewal insert states the total. The subject-by-subject breakdown inside that total is set by Board rule and detailed on the DBPR’s own CE Requirements page.

The 14-hour total

The DBPR CILB’s Certified Contractors renewal insert states it in one line: “Continuing Education is required for active renewal; the total requirements are 14 hours.” That line is the whole of what the insert itself specifies for the hour count. It does not itemize the 14 hours by subject. For the subject-by-subject breakdown, the same insert directs a licensee to the DBPR’s CE Requirements page rather than listing the hours itself, and that page is where the current split lives. Nothing in the insert ties a specific hour count to a specific topic — the detail a course seller’s own page most often leaves vague.

When the hours are due

Certified contractor licenses renew by August 31 of even-numbered years. The August 31, 2026 deadline has passed, and the next falls on August 31, 2028. Continuing education sits inside that same cycle: the insert ties the 14 hours to active renewal, so a certified license carries the same August 31 date whether the hours are logged through one course or several. The renewal fee schedule covers what an active, late, or inactive renewal costs at that same deadline.

What a missed cycle looks like on the license record

The DBPR’s own Term Glossary defines the status a license carries once a renewal cycle is missed. Delinquent is defined as “the licensee has not completed a timely renewal of their license.” A license reaches Null & Void status under the same glossary once “the licensee has failed to renew several times”; reinstatement at that point runs through reapplication rather than renewal. Active renewal, the status those completed 14 hours support, is what keeps a license out of that sequence in the first place.

How a course earns Board approval

The CILB form series gives the approval mechanism a name rather than leaving it to a provider to describe. The board behind the CILB form series runs both approvals, and it is the same board whose insert sets the 14-hour total a certified license renews on. CILB 27 is titled “Continuing Education Provider Approval Application”, and CILB 28 is titled “Continuing Education Course Approval Application”, apart from the CILB 5-A licensing application. One form covers the entity offering a course; the other covers the course itself.

Related pages

Continuing education is one piece of the renewal cycle covered in full, fees included, on Florida contractor license renewal. For how the certified classes line up against each other, see Florida contractor license types compared, and for the requirements that apply before a first license is issued, see Florida GC license requirements. For the overview of the whole licensing structure, start at the Florida general contractor license guide.