{ "name": "USCLI Licensing Ledger entries", "publisher": "United States Council for Law & Investigation", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "homepage": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker", "entries": [ { "state": "Alabama", "id": "act-2026-552", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alabama#act-2026-552", "date": "2027-05-01", "title": "Alabama Personal Data Protection Act", "type": "Act 2026-552 (HB351)", "summary": "Applies to businesses that control or process personal data of more than 25,000 Alabama consumers, or get more than 25 percent of gross revenue from selling personal data. Publicly available information is not personal data, and businesses with fewer than 500 employees that do not sell personal data, FCRA-regulated activity, and others are exempt. Controllers may still investigate, establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.", "forLicensees": "The Act is a consumer privacy law, not a data broker registry, and has no investigator-specific provision.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 2026-552", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2026RS/HB351-enr.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Louisiana", "id": "act-502-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/louisiana#act-502-2026", "date": "2027-01-01", "title": "Louisiana Data Privacy Act takes effect", "type": "Act No. 502 (SB 386), 2026 Regular Session", "summary": "Enacts a consumer data privacy law at La. R.S. 51:1780.1 to 1780.5. It applies only to businesses with annual gross revenue over $25 million, or that each year buy, receive, sell, or share the personal information of 75,000 or more consumers, households, or devices, or that get at least half their revenue from selling personal information (R.S. 51:1780.2(A)). It excludes publicly available information, exempts activity under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and does not limit processing to investigate, establish, exercise, prepare for, or defend legal claims, or to comply with a government inquiry or investigation (51:1780.5(H)). It has no exemption specific to private investigators.", "forLicensees": "The Act has no investigator exemption, but it reaches only firms that meet one of its thresholds; its exclusions for public information, FCRA activity, and legal claims apply to every covered business.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 386", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=26RS&b=SB386" } ] }, { "state": "Oklahoma", "id": "sb-546", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oklahoma#sb-546", "date": "2027-01-01", "title": "Consumer data privacy law", "type": "SB 546 (2026), 75A O.S. 300 and following", "summary": "Applies to businesses that control or process personal data of at least 100,000 Oklahoma consumers a year, or at least 25,000 while getting over 50 percent of gross revenue from selling personal data. Publicly available information, including lawfully available government records, is not personal data. The law does not restrict investigating, establishing, exercising, preparing for, or defending legal claims, or responding to fraud, harassment, or illegal activity (75A O.S. 317). The Attorney General enforces it.", "forLicensees": "The law reaches an investigator firm only if it meets the consumer thresholds.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 546 enrolled", "url": "https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26%20ENR/SB/SB546%20ENR.PDF" } ] }, { "state": "Texas", "id": "ce-proposal-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/texas#ce-proposal-2026", "date": "2026-10-15", "title": "Continuing education rule amendments on the commission agenda", "type": "Public Safety Commission agenda, item VIII.C.5", "summary": "The Public Safety Commission listed “proposed amendments to 37 TAC Section 35.161, concerning Continuing Education Requirements” among rule proposals for publication and public comment. The proposed text has not appeared in the Texas Register as of October 17, 2026, so what would change is not yet known.", "forLicensees": "Continuing education hours or topics may change. A 30-day comment period opens when the proposal is published in the Texas Register.", "sources": [ { "label": "Commission agenda, October 15, 2026", "url": "https://cdn.www3.dps.texas.gov/cdn/ff/z6dWkxLEzaN-QhBowo-wd18EJhE62ffhll8kDIldWQ4/1791236517/public/psc_calendar/2026/PSC%20Meeting%20Agenda%2010152026.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Arkansas", "id": "rule-015-01-26-001", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arkansas#rule-015-01-26-001", "date": "2026-10-14", "title": "Rule amendment: exam retake wait removed, out-of-state temporary work capped", "type": "Final rule, Arkansas Register 015.01.26-001 (17 CAR Part 350)", "summary": "Once in effect, the amendment removes the 5-working-day wait before retaking the investigator exam; the $50 retake fee stays (350-1103(e)). Allows out-of-state investigators only two 10-day temporary authorizations in a calendar year (new 350-1110(c)). Adds terroristic threatening (A.C.A. 5-13-301) to the disqualifying offenses (350-211), ends the automatic voiding of an application when court dispositions are not received within 60 days (350-212(c)), and updates the card rules for electronic licenses (350-302 and 350-402 repealed). Revised 350-506 drops the identification-card exemption for investigators, who must keep their credential, paper or electronic, accessible while working and show it to a police officer on request.", "forLicensees": "Once the rule takes effect, out-of-state investigators can use the 10-day authorization only twice a year.", "sources": [ { "label": "Final rule filing", "url": "https://sos-rules-reg.ark.org/rules/pdf/015.01.26-001F-26544.pdf" }, { "label": "Proposed rule markup", "url": "https://sos-rules-reg.ark.org/rules/pdf/015.01.26-001P-26279.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Ohio", "id": "sb-315", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/ohio#sb-315", "date": "2026-10-06", "title": "Tracking device law gains a Medicaid visit verification exemption", "type": "Senate Bill 315, 136th General Assembly", "summary": "Senate Bill 315, which mainly concerns SNAP and Medicaid program integrity, added one exemption to ORC 2903.216, as new division (D)(10). The tracking device ban does not apply to location verification technology used by the Department of Medicaid, a Medicaid provider, a provider’s employee or contractor, or an electronic visit verification vendor solely to meet electronic visit verification requirements, such as confirming when a covered service begins or ends. The exemption does not cover continuous tracking outside the delivery of Medicaid-covered services. The rest of the section, including the private investigator exemption in division (D)(5) and the penalties, is unchanged.", "forLicensees": "No change for private investigators. The consent and purpose limits on tracking from SB 100 still apply.", "sources": [ { "label": "ORC 2903.216", "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2903.216" }, { "label": "Enrolled text", "url": "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/sb315/05_EN/pdf/" }, { "label": "LSC final analysis", "url": "https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/download?key=28867" }, { "label": "SB 315 status", "url": "https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/sb315" } ] }, { "state": "Alabama", "id": "alea-fee-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alabama#alea-fee-2026", "date": "2026-10-01", "title": "Background check fee rises to $40", "type": "Board application instructions", "summary": "The Board’s 2026 instructions say the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency criminal history fee becomes $40 on October 1, 2026; the 2025 instructions listed $37.", "forLicensees": "New applicants pay $40 for the background check.", "sources": [ { "label": "2026 instructions", "url": "https://apib.alabama.gov/PDF/2026/FinalApplication2026ApplicationInstructionsandChecklistLicensedPrivateInvestigator.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Alabama", "id": "act-2026-535", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alabama#act-2026-535", "date": "2026-10-01", "title": "Repeat second-degree stalking becomes a felony", "type": "Act 2026-535 (SB273)", "summary": "A second or later violation of stalking in the second degree (Code 13A-6-90.1) is a Class C felony; a first violation remains a Class B misdemeanor. The offense elements did not change, and there is no investigator exception.", "forLicensees": "The stalking law has no investigator exception; only the penalty for repeat violations rose.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 2026-535", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2026RS/SB273-enr.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Arkansas", "id": "fbi-fee-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arkansas#fbi-fee-2026", "date": "2026-10-01", "title": "Federal background check fee rises; older application forms rejected", "type": "State Police notice", "summary": "The federal background check fee rose from $10 to $13, and earlier versions of the application forms are no longer accepted.", "forLicensees": "Use only the October 2026 forms.", "sources": [ { "label": "State Police licensing page", "url": "https://dps.arkansas.gov/law-enforcement/arkansas-state-police/services-programs/private-investigators-security-companies-alarm-installation-monitoring/" }, { "label": "Credential application", "url": "https://media.ark.org/dps/PI_Security_Credentialed_Private_Investigator_Application_10012026.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Connecticut", "id": "pa-26-64", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/connecticut#pa-26-64", "date": "2026-10-01", "title": "Data broker registry and statewide deletion mechanism", "type": "Public Act 26-64 (SB 4)", "summary": "Data brokers that sell or license brokered personal data must register with the Department of Consumer Protection by January 1, 2027, for $2,500 a year. The Department must launch a deletion mechanism by July 1, 2028, and from October 1, 2028 brokers must check it at least every 45 days and delete requesters’ data. Data needed to comply with law or a subpoena, or to investigate, establish, exercise, prepare for, or defend a legal claim, is excepted from deletion. Activity regulated by the FCRA or GLBA is exempt, and Public Act 26-100 (approved June 2, 2026) added an exemption for data collected, processed, sold, or disclosed in compliance with the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act. The civil penalty is up to $200 per day per consumer for each violation.", "forLicensees": "People-search vendors must register; no exemption names private detectives.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Act 26-64", "url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00064-R00SB-00004-PA.PDF" }, { "label": "Public Act 26-100", "url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00100-R00HB-05222-PA.PDF" } ] }, { "state": "Connecticut", "id": "pa-26-24", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/connecticut#pa-26-24", "date": "2026-10-01", "title": "Private detectives keep DMV access; vessel records restored", "type": "Public Act 26-24 (SB 413), sections 7 to 9", "summary": "Restates Conn. Gen. Stat. 14-10(f). The DMV may release personal information to a requester who files a signed statement, under penalty of false statement, that the use is permitted, including use by a licensed private detective in an investigation involving matters concerning motor vehicles (14-10(f)(2)(L)). It also restores vessel records to the definition of motor vehicle record, reversing Public Act 24-20, which had removed them effective October 1, 2024.", "forLicensees": "File the sworn permissible-use statement with each request.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Act 26-24", "url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00024-R00SB-00413-PA.PDF" }, { "label": "Public Act 24-20", "url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/2024/ACT/PA/PDF/2024PA-00020-R00SB-00183-PA.PDF" } ] }, { "state": "Connecticut", "id": "pa-26-14", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/connecticut#pa-26-14", "date": "2026-10-01", "title": "Limits on government license plate reader data", "type": "Public Act 26-14 (SB 397), section 13", "summary": "Limits public agencies, law enforcement agencies, and their vendors to listed uses of automated license plate reader data, and bars sharing it except with listed agencies or with an individual asking about a vehicle registered in that individual’s name.", "forLicensees": "Government plate reader data is not available to investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Act 26-14", "url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00014-R00SB-00397-PA.PDF" } ] }, { "state": "Connecticut", "id": "pa-26-73", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/connecticut#pa-26-73", "date": "2026-10-01", "title": "Employer electronic monitoring notice expanded", "type": "Public Act 26-73 (SB 472)", "summary": "Amends Conn. Gen. Stat. 31-48d so the existing written and posted notice of electronic monitoring must also name the specific locations where it may occur, and employees hired on or after October 1, 2026 must get a plain-language statement of what may be monitored without notice. Monitoring without notice remains allowed when the employer has reasonable grounds to believe an employee is breaking the law, violating legal rights, or creating a hostile workplace, and the monitoring may produce evidence.", "forLicensees": "In workplace investigations, have the employer document its reasonable grounds before covert monitoring.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Act 26-73", "url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00073-R00SB-00472-PA.PDF" } ] }, { "state": "Kentucky", "id": "kar-41-040-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/kentucky#kar-41-040-2026", "date": "2026-10-01", "title": "Proposed fee rule: lower late fee, higher reinstatement fee", "type": "Proposed rule", "summary": "The board filed an amendment to its fee regulation. The late renewal fee for individual and company licenses would drop from $250 to $100, and the late window would run from July 1 to September 1 instead of to August 31. The reinstatement fee for a terminated license would rise from $100 to $250. The amendment also states that the company application fee is owed in addition to the individual licensure fee. The $400 initial fee, the $250 renewal fee, and the inactive status fees are unchanged. A public hearing is scheduled for December 21, 2026, and written comments are accepted through December 31, 2026.", "forLicensees": "Nothing changes until the amendment is adopted. If it is, renewing late will cost less, and letting a license terminate will cost more to fix.", "sources": [ { "label": "Proposed amendment", "url": "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/kar/titles/201/041/040/REG/" }, { "label": "Current rule", "url": "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/kar/titles/201/041/040/" } ] }, { "state": "Kentucky", "id": "kar-41-100-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/kentucky#kar-41-100-2026", "date": "2026-10-01", "title": "Proposed background checks for limited employees", "type": "Proposed rule", "summary": "Licensees already must register each limited employee (a person who investigates for a licensee less than 240 hours a year) within five business days of hire, pay $20, keep a daily log of hours, and file an annual report in December. The amendment would also require the registration to include the results of a national background check on the employee. The board’s impact statement estimates the check at about $100 per person. The hearing and comment dates are the same as for the fee rule: December 21 and December 31, 2026.", "forLicensees": "If the amendment is adopted, budget for a national background check before registering a limited employee.", "sources": [ { "label": "Proposed amendment", "url": "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/kar/titles/201/041/100/REG/" }, { "label": "Current rule", "url": "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/kar/titles/201/041/100/2758/" } ] }, { "state": "Maryland", "id": "ch-429-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maryland#ch-429-2026", "date": "2026-10-01", "title": "Stalking becomes a felony in aggravated cases", "type": "Chapter 429 of 2026 (SB 512)", "summary": "Stalking under Criminal Law 3-802, which includes tracking another person by a device without their knowledge or consent, remains a misdemeanor but becomes a felony, punishable by up to 10 years, when the offender is subject to a protective order or court order involving the victim or has a prior stalking conviction (3-802(d)). The definition and the existing exceptions in 3-802(b) did not change.", "forLicensees": "The stalking law’s device-tracking language and its exceptions are unchanged; only the penalties rose.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 429", "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_429_sb0512t.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Maryland", "id": "ch-694-492-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maryland#ch-694-492-2026", "date": "2026-10-01", "title": "Military and Foreign Service families may practice on out-of-state licenses", "type": "Chapter 694 of 2026 (SB 242); Chapters 492 and 493 of 2026 (HB 1120, SB 418)", "summary": "Both laws add State Government subtitles and amend Business Occupations and Professions 13-401(a) so that an active service member, a Foreign Service member, or a spouse who relocates to Maryland and holds another state’s license may provide private detective services without a Maryland certification while the conditions in the new subtitles are met. Practice is limited to the scope of the out-of-state license. The agency license requirement in 13-301 was not changed.", "forLicensees": "The exception covers individual certification only; an agency license is still required.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 694", "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_694_sb0242e.pdf" }, { "label": "Chapter 492", "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_492_hb1120t.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "North Dakota", "id": "fbi-fee-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-dakota#fbi-fee-2026", "date": "2026-10-01", "title": "Criminal history check fee rises to $43", "type": "Board notice", "summary": "The FBI fingerprint fee rose by $3, so the criminal history record check now totals $43 and a new registration application $88. New forms must be used.", "forLicensees": "Use the new forms. For applications already submitted on the old page 2 form, the Board says it will work with applicants by email to update them.", "sources": [ { "label": "Board notice", "url": "https://www.pisb.nd.gov/news/new-fee-criminal-history-record-check-fbi-october-1st-2026" } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "sb-1190", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#sb-1190", "date": "2026-09-30", "title": "A PI license does not cover transport escort services for minors", "type": "Senate Bill 1190, Chapter 1015, Statutes of 2026", "summary": "Adds Business and Professions Code 7539.2. A PI license or registration is not a permit to operate a transport escort service, as defined in Health and Safety Code 1596.653. A transport escort service does not need a PI license just because it transports or accompanies a minor, but one that performs investigative work requiring a license must hold a PI license for that work.", "forLicensees": "From January 1, 2027, a PI license does not authorize running a transport escort service; a PI who offers one must meet the Health and Safety Code rules for those services.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 1190", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1190" } ] }, { "state": "Ohio", "id": "rapback-fees", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/ohio#rapback-fees", "date": "2026-09-30", "title": "Background monitoring fees rise by $3", "type": "Agency notice", "summary": "PISGS announced that the Attorney General’s Office is raising annual RAPBACK enrollment fees by $3. The new fees are $8 for a new registrant or registrant renewal and $16 for a new qualifying agent or qualifying agent renewal. The notice cites ORC 4749.031(B), which requires these fees to be paid with initial and renewal applications.", "forLicensees": "Budget for the higher fee on new registrations and renewals filed on or after October 1, 2026.", "sources": [ { "label": "PISGS Mid-Week Minute, Sep 30, 2026", "url": "https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/OHDPS/bulletins/42c1f06" } ] }, { "state": "Nevada", "id": "eo-2026-003", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/nevada#eo-2026-003", "date": "2026-09-23", "title": "Executive order regulatory review; Board stakeholder meeting", "type": "Executive Order 2026-003; Board stakeholder meeting", "summary": "The order requires every executive branch board to hold a public stakeholder hearing by October 29, 2026, review its regulations, and report to the Governor by December 31, 2026 with 5 to 10 regulations recommended to be streamlined, clarified, reduced, or otherwise improved. The Board held a stakeholder meeting on September 23, 2026, which it said was not formal rulemaking.", "forLicensees": "No regulation changes without separate rulemaking.", "sources": [ { "label": "Executive Order 2026-003", "url": "https://gov.nv.gov/executive-actions/executive-orders/2026-executive-orders/eo-2026-003/" }, { "label": "Stakeholder meeting agenda", "url": "https://pilb.nv.gov/siteassets/pilb.nv.gov/content/boards-commissions/2026/sept-23-stakeholder-meeting-agenda.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Washington", "id": "wsr-26-19-136", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/washington#wsr-26-19-136", "date": "2026-09-23", "title": "Fee increase proposed for 2027", "type": "Proposed rule WSR 26-19-136 (WAC 308-17-150)", "summary": "The proposal adds a separate $25 application fee to each new investigator license, armed endorsement, and agency license; renewal fees stay single fees. An investigator license would rise from $220 to $250 plus the application fee, and renewal from $193 to $241; an agency license including the first exam from $640 to $775 plus the application fee, and renewal from $385 to $481; armed endorsements from $110 to $113 plus the application fee; and the late renewal penalty from $35 to $44. The Department says new fees would take effect January 1, 2027 if adopted.", "forLicensees": "Written comments are due by the October 27, 2026 hearing; nothing changes unless the rule is adopted.", "sources": [ { "label": "WSR 26-19-136", "url": "https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/19/26-19-136.htm" }, { "label": "Department news", "url": "https://dol.wa.gov/professional-licenses/private-investigators/news-and-updates-private-investigators" } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "sb-1311", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#sb-1311", "date": "2026-09-14", "title": "Master agreements need not give start and end dates for each job", "type": "Senate Bill 1311, Chapter 232, Statutes of 2026", "summary": "Amends section 7524(a)(3), the written client agreement rule. A master agreement for services contracted frequently over a set period no longer has to state approximate start and completion dates for the work, if it states its own beginning and termination dates. The rest of section 7524 is unchanged.", "forLicensees": "A standing agreement with a repeat client can give the agreement’s own beginning and termination dates instead of dates for each assignment.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 1311", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1311" }, { "label": "Section 7524", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=7524." } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "sb-1445", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#sb-1445", "date": "2026-09-14", "title": "BSIS no longer required to send licensees copies of the law", "type": "Senate Bill 1445, Chapter 237, Statutes of 2026", "summary": "Repeals section 7519, which requires the Director of Consumer Affairs to give every licensed PI business a free copy of the current licensing law and regulations at least every two years. It also repeals the matching provision for private security services (7581.5) and a similar one for alarm companies (7599.71).", "forLicensees": "From January 1, 2027, use the online versions of the Act and the regulations.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 1445", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1445" } ] }, { "state": "Iowa", "id": "ra-26-276", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/iowa#ra-26-276", "date": "2026-09-02", "title": "Department proposes to rewrite Chapter 121", "type": "Regulatory analysis", "summary": "Under Executive Order 10, the Department of Public Safety published a regulatory analysis proposing to rescind 661 IAC Chapter 121 and adopt a new chapter in its place. A public hearing was scheduled for September 23, 2026, with written comments due the same day. The proposed text keeps the $100 license fee, the $10 identification card fee, and the 12-hour continuing education requirement. It would allow fingerprints to be submitted through a department-approved fingerprint vendor instead of only on FD-258 cards, add a limited liability company form to the application, accept general liability or professional liability coverage on the insurance certificate, and replace definitions with cross-references to Iowa Code 80A.1. It would drop the list of offenses that personal injury insurance must cover, the 2003 letter-of-credit exception, and the requirement that reports and cover letters to clients be personally signed by the licensee or a designee. The department’s Red Tape Review report also lists the campus weapon rule (121.18) and the replacement license rule (121.24) for repeal. As of the October 14, 2026 Bulletin, the Notice of Intended Action had not been published.", "forLicensees": "Nothing has changed yet. Watch for the Notice of Intended Action, which opens a further comment period before any new rules are adopted.", "sources": [ { "label": "Iowa Administrative Bulletin, Sep 2, 2026", "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/aco/bulletin/09-02-2026.pdf" }, { "label": "Regulatory analysis", "url": "https://dps.iowa.gov/media/3279/download?inline" }, { "label": "Red Tape Review report", "url": "https://dps.iowa.gov/media/3229/download?inline" } ] }, { "state": "Kentucky", "id": "kar-41-certification-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/kentucky#kar-41-certification-2026", "date": "2026-09-01", "title": "Board certifies its rules to remain in effect", "type": "Certification", "summary": "Under KRS 13A.3104, Kentucky agencies must periodically review each regulation and certify whether it will be amended or remain in effect. The board filed certification letters stating that 201 KAR 41:020, 41:030, 41:040, 41:060, 41:065, 41:070, and 41:080 (September 1, 2026) and 41:090 and 41:100 (September 14, 2026) remain in effect without amendment. The October 2026 Administrative Register lists the letters.", "forLicensees": "No change to application, exam, renewal, continuing education, complaint, or ethics rules.", "sources": [ { "label": "Administrative Register, October 2026", "url": "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/kar/registers/53Ky_R_2026-27/04_Oct.pdf#page=235" }, { "label": "201 KAR Chapter 41", "url": "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/kar/titles/201/041/" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "dpsst-6-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#dpsst-6-2026", "date": "2026-09-01", "title": "License fee rises to $800; renewal $760", "type": "Final rule, DPSST 6-2026 (OAR 259-061-0010)", "summary": "The new private or provisional investigator license fee rose from $690 to $800, which now includes the application fee previously charged separately as $29. Renewal rose from $690 to $760, the late fee from $35 to $40, and a duplicate license from $24 to $27.", "forLicensees": "A two-year renewal costs $760.", "sources": [ { "label": "OAR 259-061-0010", "url": "https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=259-061-0010" }, { "label": "DPSST renewal page", "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/dpsst/PI/Pages/Renew.aspx" } ] }, { "state": "Utah", "id": "r156-92", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/utah#r156-92", "date": "2026-09-01", "title": "DOPL emergency rule", "type": "R156-92, Filing ID 58199", "summary": "Sets $10,000 bonds, an agent exam passing score of 75%, renewal in August of odd years, continuing education topics, and agency requirements. It requires agent and registrant experience to have been earned as a licensed investigator or government investigator within 10 years (R156-92-303(1)(c), -304(1)(e)).", "forLicensees": "A permanent rule may change these details.", "sources": [ { "label": "R156-92", "url": "https://commerce.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/r156-92-private-investigator-rule-emergency-rule-effective-09.01.2026.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Utah", "id": "sb-149", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/utah#sb-149", "date": "2026-09-01", "title": "Licensing moves from Public Safety to DOPL", "type": "S.B. 149 (2026), Laws of Utah 2026, ch. 44", "summary": "Repeals Title 53, Chapter 9 and enacts the Private Investigation Licensing Act, Title 58, Chapter 92, administered by DOPL. Holders of Public Safety licenses are considered to hold the matching new license (58-92-314). Also amends the tracking-device exception to cover jail release orders in the protective order check, and removes the requirement that process servers wear visible credentials; servers must still print their name and license number on the first page (78B-8-302).", "forLicensees": "Public Safety licenses stay valid until their expiration date; DOPL says you may apply up to 60 days before it.", "sources": [ { "label": "S.B. 149", "url": "https://le.utah.gov/Session/2026/bills/enrolled/SB0149.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Delaware", "id": "hb-322", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/delaware#hb-322", "date": "2026-08-31", "title": "Health-care staff and security may detain people pending police", "type": "HS 1 for HB 322, 85 Del. Laws c. 454", "summary": "Adds 11 Del. C. 1914(b)(2): a person employed by or providing security services for a health-care institution or a licensed medical or dental practice may take a person presenting a security or safety risk into custody and detain the person in a reasonable manner on the premises for a reasonable time to summon a law enforcement officer.", "forLicensees": "This applies to employees of, and security providers for, those facilities, not to investigators generally.", "sources": [ { "label": "HS 1 for HB 322", "url": "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=143345" } ] }, { "state": "Missouri", "id": "sb-1233", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#sb-1233", "date": "2026-08-28", "title": "Temporary license for experienced applicants from states that do not license", "type": "Senate Bill 1233, 103rd General Assembly", "summary": "New RSMo 324.004 applies to any Missouri board or agency that issues occupational or professional licenses, and does not exclude private investigators. A person with at least three years of work experience in a state or the District of Columbia that does not license the occupation may apply for a one-time, nonrenewable two-year temporary license. The board must decide within 45 days and require the state’s licensing exam. Applicants whose license was revoked elsewhere, or who are under investigation, have a complaint pending, or are under disciplinary action, are ineligible; nonresidents must establish Missouri domicile within 60 days, and the license is valid only in Missouri.", "forLicensees": "An investigator from a state without PI licensing can work in Missouri on a temporary license after passing the exam. The temporary license cannot be renewed.", "sources": [ { "label": "RSMo 324.004", "url": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=324.004" }, { "label": "SB 1233 truly agreed text", "url": "https://www.senate.mo.gov/26info/pdf-bill/tat/SB1233.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Missouri", "id": "sb-1421", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#sb-1421", "date": "2026-08-28", "title": "Board renamed and expanded to license bail bond agents", "type": "Senate Bill 1421, 103rd General Assembly", "summary": "The public safety bill amends RSMo 324.1100, 324.1102, 324.1103, 324.1105, 324.1116 and 324.1134 and moves the licensing of professional surety bail bond agents from the Department of Commerce and Insurance to the renamed Board of Private Investigators, Private Fire Investigators, and Professional Surety Bail Bond Agents. The board grows from seven to ten members, adding three members from the bail bond or surety recovery business. Members serving on August 28, 2026 keep their seats. The board’s bail bond duties, and the abolition of the old board, take effect only once the governor appoints and the Senate confirms the bail bond members. Existing rules in 20 CSR 2234 stay in force until the board revises them, and the board fund is renamed.", "forLicensees": "Licensing requirements, fees and continuing education for private investigators do not change. Expect the board’s name, and later its forms and rules, to change once the new members are seated.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 1421 status", "url": "https://www.senate.mo.gov/BillTracking/Bills/BillInformation?billid=8214&year=2026" }, { "label": "Truly agreed text", "url": "https://www.senate.mo.gov/26info/pdf-bill/tat/SB1421.pdf" }, { "label": "RSMo 324.1102", "url": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=324.1102" } ] }, { "state": "Illinois", "id": "pa-104-0852", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/illinois#pa-104-0852", "date": "2026-08-21", "title": "Technical revisions to training sections", "type": "Public Act 104-0852", "summary": "The First 2026 General Revisory Act made technical and stylistic corrections to the alarm contractor and security contractor training sections (225 ILCS 447/20-20 and 25-20). It states that it is not intended to make any substantive change in the law.", "forLicensees": "No action needed by private detectives.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Act text", "url": "https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/publicacts/104/104-0852.htm" }, { "label": "SB 3731 status", "url": "https://www.ilga.gov/ftp/legislation/104/BillStatus/HTML/10400SB3731.html" } ] }, { "state": "New Jersey", "id": "atlas-v-we-inform", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-jersey#atlas-v-we-inform", "date": "2026-08-12", "title": "Supreme Court: Daniel’s Law actual damages need no showing of a mental state", "type": "Atlas Data Privacy Corp. v. We Inform, LLC (A-8-25), Supreme Court of New Jersey", "summary": "Answering a question certified by the Third Circuit, the Court held that Daniel’s Law does not contain a mental state requirement for actual damages liability under N.J.S.A. 56:8-166.1(c)(1).", "forLicensees": "Liability for actual damages (at least $1,000 per violation) for disclosing a covered person’s protected information after a valid notice does not depend on proof of intent or negligence; punitive damages still require willful or reckless disregard of the law.", "sources": [ { "label": "Opinion", "url": "https://www.njcourts.gov/system/files/court-opinions/2026/a_8_25.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Louisiana", "id": "act-965-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/louisiana#act-965-2026", "date": "2026-08-01", "title": "Notice required before recording with camera glasses", "type": "Act No. 965 (HB 410), 2026 Regular Session", "summary": "Adds La. R.S. 9:2790.1 to 2790.4, which bar a participant in a direct conversation from using wearable camera eyeglasses to record or transcribe it unless all participants are notified; a person who is not a participant is not covered. Exceptions include recordings made to preserve evidence related to an actual or anticipated civil or administrative proceeding, or to a criminal act or proceeding (9:2790.3(B)(6)-(7)). The Chapter also does not apply to incidental capture in public places (9:2790.3(D)). The remedy is civil, and the Act does not change the Electronic Surveillance Act.", "forLicensees": "The Act has no provision specific to investigators; its exceptions include recording to preserve evidence for a proceeding.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 410", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=26RS&b=HB410" }, { "label": "Act 965", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1481911" } ] }, { "state": "Louisiana", "id": "act-939-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/louisiana#act-939-2026", "date": "2026-08-01", "title": "Limits on boards recovering attorney fees after a licensee’s offer", "type": "Act No. 939 (SB 131), 2026 Regular Session", "summary": "Adds La. R.S. 37:21(D): when a licensing board’s disciplinary case ends with the licensee as the prevailing party after a written offer of judgment, the board may not collect attorney fees or costs it incurred after the offer, and the subsection overrides any less favorable agency rule (37:21(D)(3)). The PI Board is not excluded.", "forLicensees": "A licensee who prevails after a written offer is not charged the Board’s later fees and costs.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 131", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=26RS&b=SB131" }, { "label": "Act 939", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1481807" } ] }, { "state": "Missouri", "id": "20-csr-2234-3-040-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#20-csr-2234-3-040-2026", "date": "2026-07-30", "title": "Agency employees with an active license can change agencies without reapplying", "type": "Final rule", "summary": "A new application is now required only when an agency investigator employee without an active license moves to a different agency. An employee who holds an active license instead files a Change in Agency Affiliation form and a Verification by Investigator-In-Charge form, both on the board’s website. The proposal was published March 2, 2026, and adopted without changes; no comments were received.", "forLicensees": "When hiring an agency investigator employee who already holds an active Missouri license, use the change of affiliation forms rather than a new application.", "sources": [ { "label": "20 CSR 2234-3", "url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/adrules/csr/current/20csr/20c2234-3.pdf" }, { "label": "Proposed amendment, Missouri Register", "url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/AdRules/moreg/2026/v51n5March1/v51n5.pdf" }, { "label": "Order of rulemaking", "url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/AdRules/moreg/2026/v51n12June15/v51n12.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Maine", "id": "pl-2025-c704", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maine#pl-2025-c704", "date": "2026-07-29", "title": "Board of Licensure of Professional Investigators eliminated", "type": "P.L. 2025, c. 704 (L.D. 2228)", "summary": "Repeals 32 M.R.S. 8103-A, which created the Board of Licensure of Professional Investigators, and removes the board’s role in the Chief’s rulemaking (8116(3)) and in keeping licensees’ home addresses and phone numbers confidential (8124). Licensing qualifications, fees, and terms are unchanged.", "forLicensees": "The Chief regulates without the board; home address and phone confidentiality continues.", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L. 2025, c. 704", "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/ros/LawsOfMaine/breeze/Law/getDocById/?docId=124260" } ] }, { "state": "Maine", "id": "pl-2025-c524", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maine#pl-2025-c524", "date": "2026-07-29", "title": "Employer electronic surveillance of employees regulated", "type": "P.L. 2025, c. 524 (L.D. 61)", "summary": "Enacts 26 M.R.S. 620-A: an employer may not electronically monitor an employee without notice, must disclose monitoring during interviews and give written notice yearly, and may not use audiovisual monitoring in an employee’s home or personal vehicle unless the job requires it. Security cameras and GPS on employer-owned vehicles are excluded.", "forLicensees": "When monitoring for an employer client, confirm the employer has given the required notices.", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L. 2025, c. 524", "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/ros/LawsOfMaine/breeze/Law/getDocById/?docId=121771" } ] }, { "state": "Illinois", "id": "pa-104-0601", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/illinois#pa-104-0601", "date": "2026-07-24", "title": "Licensing board reduced to 11 members", "type": "Public Act 104-0601", "summary": "Amends 225 ILCS 447/50-10. The board drops from 13 to 11 members by removing one locksmith seat and the seat for a licensee who provides canine odor detection services. Licensed members will need 3 years of experience instead of 5. The two private detective seats remain.", "forLicensees": "No change to individual licensing requirements. Private detectives licensed for 3 to 5 years become eligible for board appointment.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Act text", "url": "https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/publicacts/104/104-0601.htm" }, { "label": "HB 4353 status", "url": "https://www.ilga.gov/ftp/legislation/104/BillStatus/HTML/10400HB4353.html" } ] }, { "state": "Nebraska", "id": "lb-935", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/nebraska#lb-935", "date": "2026-07-18", "title": "New felony for tracking a person without consent, with a limited exception for licensed investigators", "type": "Legislative Bill 935, 109th Legislature", "summary": "Enacted sections 28-1336 to 28-1339. It is a Class IIIA felony to knowingly install a mobile tracking device on another person’s property without consent, to use a device or app to track a person or their property without consent, or to fail to remove a device after consent is revoked. Consent is treated as revoked if the person says so, if either spouse files for divorce, annulment, or separate maintenance, or if the person obtains a protection order. The general exception for legitimate business purposes does not apply to private investigators. A person licensed under 71-3201 to 71-3213 is exempt only with the property owner’s consent and only to investigate crimes, locate a fugitive, locate lost or stolen property or court-awarded assets, or investigate workers’ compensation claims. The exception does not apply if the client is the subject of a protection order or if the investigator knows or reasonably should know the client wants help committing a crime. The act also added a tracking device conviction to the list of potentially disqualifying convictions for occupational licenses (84-941.01). An earlier tracking bill with a similar investigator exception, LB 1224, was indefinitely postponed on April 18, 2024.", "forLicensees": "Do not place a GPS tracker or tracking app without the property owner’s consent, even for a client with a business purpose. Screen clients for protection orders before any tracking work.", "sources": [ { "label": "Section 28-1338", "url": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=28-1338" }, { "label": "LB 935", "url": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=62933" }, { "label": "Slip law", "url": "https://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/109/PDF/Slip/LB935.pdf" }, { "label": "LB 1224 (2024)", "url": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=55222" } ] }, { "state": "Nevada", "id": "board-memo-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/nevada#board-memo-2026", "date": "2026-07-15", "title": "Board cancels armed-security verification workshop and pauses work card appeals", "type": "Board memorandum", "summary": "Citing recent legislative inquiries about its policies and operations, the Board cancelled its July 28, 2026 workshop on the Verification of Employment for Armed Security form and said it would not consider work card appeals at its September 2026 meeting.", "forLicensees": "No rule on the verification form has been proposed.", "sources": [ { "label": "Board memorandum", "url": "https://pilb.nv.gov/siteassets/pilb.nv.gov/content/boards-commissions/2026/notice-of-cancellation-7-15-26.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Arizona", "id": "dps-notices-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arizona#dps-notices-2026", "date": "2026-07-08", "title": "Fingerprint affidavit required; electronic filing suspended", "type": "DPS Licensing Unit notices", "summary": "DPS says fingerprints received on or after July 8, 2026 must come with a completed Fingerprint Affidavit, sealed in one envelope with the fingerprint card, or the packet is rejected. Forms signed and received after October 3, 2026 that are not the newest version will be rejected. Because of a move to a new processing system, electronic applications and fingerprint submissions are suspended from October 30, 2026; the DPS page does not give a relaunch date.", "forLicensees": "From October 30, 2026, electronic applications and fingerprint submissions are suspended until DPS’s new system launches.", "sources": [ { "label": "DPS licensing page", "url": "https://www.azdps.gov/services/public-services-center/licensing" } ] }, { "state": "Hawaii", "id": "act-196-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/hawaii#act-196-2026", "date": "2026-07-07", "title": "Felony of nonconsensual disclosure of intimate images", "type": "Act 196, SLH 2026 (SB 2135)", "summary": "Creates the offense of nonconsensual disclosure of intimate or private images in HRS chapter 711, including disclosing or threatening to disclose such an image to compel conduct, obtain more images or anything of value, or affect a family court proceeding.", "forLicensees": "Handle intimate images found in an investigation only as evidence, through counsel or law enforcement.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 2135 CD1", "url": "https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2026/bills/SB2135_CD1_.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Texas", "id": "lawful-presence-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/texas#lawful-presence-2026", "date": "2026-07-02", "title": "Proof of lawful presence required for new and renewal licenses", "type": "Final rule, 37 TAC 35.21, 35.22, 35.30, 35.81, 35.83, and 35.121 to 35.124", "summary": "Individual, owner, and company applicants, new and renewing, must prove eligibility for state public benefits, which include professional licenses, under the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. DPS checks the documents through the federal SAVE program. Accepted documents include a REAL ID-compliant license or ID, a U.S. passport, a birth certificate, naturalization papers, a permanent resident card, or an employment authorization document (35.21(b)(5) lists them all; 35.22(a)(4) applies the list to renewals and 35.121(c) to investigations company applicants).", "forLicensees": "Every new or renewal application filed on or after July 2, 2026 needs one of the listed documents.", "sources": [ { "label": "Texas Register, adopted rules", "url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/archive/June262026/Adopted%20Rules/37.PUBLIC%20SAFETY%20AND%20CORRECTIONS.html" }, { "label": "Proposed rules", "url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/archive/April242026/Proposed%20Rules/37.PUBLIC%20SAFETY%20AND%20CORRECTIONS.html" } ] }, { "state": "Alaska", "id": "hb-239-acp", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alaska#hb-239-acp", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Address Confidentiality Program created", "type": "HB 239 (2026), ch. 9 SLA 26 (AS 44.21.022)", "summary": "Victims of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault, peace officers, correctional officers, and their household members may enroll and use a program post office box that state and municipal agencies must accept. Recklessly or knowingly disclosing an enrollee’s confidential program information to a protective-order respondent, or disclosing it after unauthorized database access, is a class A misdemeanor.", "forLicensees": "Agency records for enrollees show a program box, not a residence; take care in locate work for a client who is a protective-order respondent.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 239", "url": "https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/34/Bills/HB0239Z.PDF" } ] }, { "state": "Alaska", "id": "hb-239-stalking", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alaska#hb-239-stalking", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "First-degree stalking covers victims under 18", "type": "HB 239 (2026), ch. 9 SLA 26", "summary": "Raises the age in AS 11.41.260(a)(3) so that stalking is first-degree when the victim is under 18, up from under 16. The definition of nonconsensual contact, which includes following or monitoring with a GPS or similar device (AS 11.41.270), was not changed.", "forLicensees": "Tracking that puts a minor in fear can be a felony.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 239", "url": "https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/34/Bills/HB0239Z.PDF" } ] }, { "state": "Connecticut", "id": "pa-25-113", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/connecticut#pa-25-113", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Data privacy act reaches any business that sells personal data", "type": "Public Act 25-113 (SB 1295), section 6", "summary": "The Connecticut Data Privacy Act now applies to a business that, in the preceding year, controlled or processed personal data of at least 35,000 consumers (down from 100,000), controlled or processed sensitive data, or offered consumers’ personal data for sale (Conn. Gen. Stat. 42-516).", "forLicensees": "A firm that sells consumer data can be covered regardless of size; check the exemptions in 42-517.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Act 25-113", "url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00113-R00SB-01295-PA.PDF" } ] }, { "state": "Florida", "id": "ch-2026-46", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/florida#ch-2026-46", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Volunteer armed security at places of worship exempted", "type": "CS/SB 52, Chapter 2026-46, Laws of Florida", "summary": "Adds s. 493.6102(16), which exempts from Chapter 493 anyone who provides armed security on the premises of a church, mosque, synagogue, or other place of worship voluntarily and without pay. It reenacts s. 493.6201(4), the rule that Class C and CC licensees must own or work for a Class A agency or branch.", "forLicensees": "No change to PI licensing. The agency ownership or employment rule stays the same.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 2026-46", "url": "https://laws.flrules.org/2026/46" } ] }, { "state": "Georgia", "id": "hb-579", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/georgia#hb-579", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Division director may issue and renew licenses for licensing boards", "type": "House Bill 579, Act 89 (2025)", "summary": "Adds O.C.G.A. 43-1-3.1. The director of the Professional Licensing Boards Division may review applications to issue, renew, or reinstate a license and, if every qualification is met, act on the board’s behalf; other applications go to the board. New 43-1-26 limits each professional licensing board’s rules to those designed to protect public health, safety, and welfare. The act applies to boards in the division generally and does not name this Board.", "forLicensees": "Complete applications and renewals may be approved by the division director without waiting for a Board meeting.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 579", "url": "https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/70666" }, { "label": "As passed", "url": "https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20252026/237760" } ] }, { "state": "Idaho", "id": "h-738", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/idaho#h-738", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Home-based LLCs may list their registered agent’s address", "type": "H 738 (2026), ch. 80", "summary": "Lets an LLC with only a residential address list its commercial registered agent’s address instead of a principal office on its certificate of organization (Idaho Code 30-25-201(b)(2)(ii)).", "forLicensees": "New filings may not show the owner’s home address.", "sources": [ { "label": "H 738", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2026/legislation/H0738/" } ] }, { "state": "Idaho", "id": "h-727", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/idaho#h-727", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Voyeurism and synthetic-media laws cover threatened disclosure and AI images of minors", "type": "H 727 (2026), ch. 121", "summary": "According to its statement of purpose, the act bars threats to disclose intimate images and makes disclosing AI-generated explicit images of a minor a felony (Idaho Code 18-6605, 18-6606). Recording intimate areas where a person expects privacy was already a crime.", "forLicensees": "Lawful surveillance in public is unaffected.", "sources": [ { "label": "H 727", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2026/legislation/H0727/" } ] }, { "state": "Indiana", "id": "hea-1230", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/indiana#hea-1230", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Higher civil penalty cap for business entities", "type": "P.L. 29-2026 (House Enrolled Act 1230)", "summary": "Amends IC 25-1-11-12, which applies to this board. The civil penalty a board may assess is now up to $1,000 per violation for an individual practitioner and up to $5,000 per violation for a business entity. The act also updates the renewal-date cross-reference in IC 25-30-1-16 after merging the licensing agency’s duties into IC 25-1-5. Renewal cycles and fees did not change.", "forLicensees": "Licensed firms face a higher maximum penalty per violation. The board’s fines rule (874 IAC 2-1-2) sets fines at half the statutory maximum unless adjusted.", "sources": [ { "label": "Enrolled act", "url": "https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1230/HB1230.04.ENRS.pdf" }, { "label": "IC 25-30 (2026)", "url": "https://iga.in.gov/ic/2026/Title_25/Article_30.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Kansas", "id": "hb-2479", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/kansas#hb-2479", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Breach of privacy now requires intent; penalties raised", "type": "HB 2479 (2026)", "summary": "Changes the mental state for every form of breach of privacy, including interception, eavesdropping, and recording, from knowingly to intentionally (K.S.A. 21-6101(a)), rewrites the recording offense to cover any device or software used to record or view a person’s nude body or undergarments, and raises penalties when the victim is a minor.", "forLicensees": "Recording offenses now require proof of intent.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 2479", "url": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/HB2479/" } ] }, { "state": "Kansas", "id": "hb-2183", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/kansas#hb-2183", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "No deference to agency interpretations", "type": "HB 2183 (2026)", "summary": "A state court or administrative hearing officer may consider, but may not defer to, a state agency’s interpretation of a statute or regulation.", "forLicensees": "In a license denial or discipline hearing, the Attorney General’s reading of the Act gets no deference.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 2183", "url": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/HB2183/" } ] }, { "state": "Maryland", "id": "ch-874-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maryland#ch-874-2026", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Motor vehicle records and immigration enforcement; privacy law exemptions narrowed", "type": "Chapter 874 of 2026 (HB 711)", "summary": "General Provisions 4-320(g)(2) now bars any recipient of Motor Vehicle Administration personal information, which includes licensed private detective agencies under 4-320(f)(3), from disclosing it to any person or government agency for immigration enforcement without a valid warrant. Before, the bar reached only disclosures to federal agents and agencies. Records custodians must also take reasonable steps to determine whether a requester seeks records for immigration enforcement (4-320.1). The chapter also amends the Online Data Privacy Act: the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act exemption now covers data handled “as required by” that Act rather than “in compliance with” it (Com. Law 14-4703(b)(8)); data from government records counts as publicly available only if the person follows each restriction or term of use the agency imposes (14-4701(cc)); precise geolocation data includes the location of a mobile device or vehicle (14-4701(x)); sensitive data includes inferred data; and a controller may not knowingly sell personal data to a government unit that engaged in or supported civil immigration enforcement in the prior 6 months (14-4707(a)(6)).", "forLicensees": "Motor vehicle records received as a licensed agency may not be passed to anyone for immigration enforcement without a valid warrant, and the privacy law’s exemptions for driver records and government-sourced public data are narrower.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 874", "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_874_hb0711t.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Mississippi", "id": "sb-2314", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/mississippi#sb-2314", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Driver records limited to DPPA permissible uses", "type": "SB 2314 (2026)", "summary": "Adds Miss. Code 63-1-45(4): driver records, certified driver records, and motor vehicle reports are available only for the permissible uses in the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, and the Department of Public Safety must establish how they may be obtained.", "forLicensees": "Mississippi issues no investigator license, so requests must rest on another permissible use, such as litigation or insurance.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 2314", "url": "https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2314SG.htm" } ] }, { "state": "New Mexico", "id": "sb-40", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-mexico#sb-40", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Limits on sharing license plate reader data", "type": "SB 40 (2026), Laws 2026, ch. 20, Driver Privacy and Safety Act", "summary": "A person or entity that owns, operates, or has access to automated license plate reader information may not sell, share, or make it available to anyone other than law enforcement, except its own vendor (sec. 3(C)), and privately captured data may be released only with the private entity’s express consent or under a court order (sec. 3(E)). An intentional violation carries a civil penalty of $10,000 or actual damages, whichever is greater. The law covers readers capable of comparing plate data against law enforcement databases, including privately owned ones.", "forLicensees": "Check vendor terms before relying on plate-reader results for New Mexico subjects.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 40", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/final/SB0040.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "North Dakota", "id": "renewal-letter-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-dakota#renewal-letter-2026", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "2026 renewal letter; late fee differs from the statute", "type": "Board letter", "summary": "All licenses and registrations expire September 30, 2026, and the Board asked for renewals by September 1. The letter lists a $100 monthly late fee for investigator licenses, while N.D.C.C. 43-30-16 sets $75 a month. Errors and omissions coverage must appear on the insurance certificate.", "forLicensees": "The statute sets the late fee at $75 a month.", "sources": [ { "label": "Renewal letter", "url": "https://www.pisb.nd.gov/sites/default/files/documents/forms/ND%20PISB%202026%20Renewal%20Letter%20to%20License%20Holders.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "South Dakota", "id": "hb-1298", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#hb-1298", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Felony to publish an officer’s home address with intent to cause fear", "type": "HB 1298 (2026), SL 2026 ch 98", "summary": "Makes it a Class 6 felony to publish electronically the home address, date of birth, or Social Security number of a judicial or law enforcement officer without the officer’s consent and with intent to place the officer or family in reasonable fear of death or great bodily injury (new section in SDCL chapter 22-11).", "forLicensees": "Both elements are required, but posting officer identifiers online carries high risk.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 1298", "url": "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27282" } ] }, { "state": "South Dakota", "id": "sb-41", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#sb-41", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Invasion-of-privacy recording crime rewritten", "type": "SB 41 (2026), SL 2026 ch 104", "summary": "Amends SDCL 22-21-4, which already made it a crime to photograph or record a person nude, under or through clothing, or in a sexual act. The act removes the element that the victim be in circumstances with a reasonable expectation of privacy, broadens the intent element to include intent to alarm, annoy, or cause harm, and makes creating digitally fabricated sexual images of an identifiable person a Class 5 felony.", "forLicensees": "Location no longer matters; never record or keep such images.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 41", "url": "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26753" } ] }, { "state": "South Dakota", "id": "hb-1084", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#hb-1084", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Judges’ and officers’ contact details withheld from voter files", "type": "HB 1084 (2026), SL 2026 ch 64", "summary": "Makes the home address, personal phone, and personal email of current or retired judges and law enforcement officers non-public in voter registration files (SDCL 12-4-9.3); previously only judges’ home addresses were withheld.", "forLicensees": "Voter file pulls will not show these details.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 1084", "url": "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26820" } ] }, { "state": "South Dakota", "id": "voter-file", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#voter-file", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Statewide voter file posted weekly; commercial use still barred", "type": "HB 1062 (2025), SL 2025 ch 60; SB 214 (2026), SL 2026 ch 66", "summary": "Requires the Secretary of State to post the complete statewide voter registration file every week, with a free five-year archive (SDCL 12-4-37, 12-4-37.1). Voter-file information still may not be used for any commercial purpose, a Class 1 misdemeanor (12-4-41).", "forLicensees": "Using the voter file for paid investigative work may be a commercial purpose.", "sources": [ { "label": "SDCL 12-4-41", "url": "https://sdlegislature.gov/api/Statutes/12-4-41.html" } ] }, { "state": "South Dakota", "id": "sb-11", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#sb-11", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Driving record abstract fee rises to $7", "type": "SB 11 (2026), SL 2026 ch 140", "summary": "Raises the fee for a certified three-year driving record abstract from $5 to $7 (SDCL 32-35-101).", "forLicensees": "Federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act limits on personal information still apply.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 11", "url": "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26702" } ] }, { "state": "South Dakota", "id": "sb-49", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#sb-49", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Genetic data privacy", "type": "SB 49 (2026), SL 2026 ch 164", "summary": "Requires direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies to obtain separate express consent, naming the recipient, for each transfer of a consumer’s genetic data to anyone other than vendors and service providers, and to honor deletion requests (SDCL chapter 37-24).", "forLicensees": "The exemption for forensic laboratories covers law enforcement work, not private investigations.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 49", "url": "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26832" } ] }, { "state": "South Dakota", "id": "hb-1280", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#hb-1280", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Drone over a prison, jail, or military facility becomes a felony", "type": "HB 1280 (2026), SL 2026 ch 192", "summary": "Raises operating a drone over correctional or military grounds without authorization from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony (SDCL 50-15-3).", "forLicensees": "Plan drone routes away from those grounds.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 1280", "url": "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27255" } ] }, { "state": "Tennessee", "id": "pc-1039", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/tennessee#pc-1039", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Polygraph licensing repealed; advisory committee recomposed", "type": "2026 Public Chapter 1039 (HB 2530)", "summary": "Repeals the Polygraph Examiners Act (Title 62, Chapter 27). Rewrites 62-35-143 so the Detection Services Licensing Program covers private investigators, private security, and alarm contractors. If the commissioner creates the advisory committee, it must have ten members: three each from alarm, private investigation, and private security, and one public member.", "forLicensees": "Tennessee no longer licenses polygraph examiners, and an advisory committee, if created, includes three private investigation members.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Chapter 1039", "url": "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/114/pub/pc1039.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Tennessee", "id": "pc-1081", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/tennessee#pc-1081", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Military Families Licensing Recognition Act", "type": "2026 Public Chapter 1081 (SB 1692)", "summary": "Creates Title 58, Chapter 10, requiring recognition of an out-of-state license held by a servicemember or spouse who relocates to Tennessee on military orders. Its definition of a licensing authority names boards, commissions, councils, and committees, so whether it reaches the commissioner-run private investigator program has not been confirmed.", "forLicensees": "Whether private investigator licenses are covered has not been confirmed.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Chapter 1081", "url": "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/114/pub/pc1081.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Vermont", "id": "act-89", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/vermont#act-89", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Voyeurism statute rewritten; investigator exemption kept", "type": "Act 89 (2026), H.626", "summary": "Rewrites 13 V.S.A. 2605 into separate offenses for unlawful viewing, recording, and home surveillance without consent, keeps the up-to-5-year penalty for disclosing an unlawfully recorded image, and adds a civil cause of action for that disclosure and higher penalties when the victim is under 18. Bona fide private investigators remain exempt from the home surveillance offense for otherwise lawful work, and keep an affirmative defense for unintentional, incidental viewing or recording during legal surveillance, but not for disclosure.", "forLicensees": "Never share an image of intimate areas or sexual conduct captured during surveillance.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 89", "url": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Docs/ACTS/ACT089/ACT089%20As%20Enacted.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Vermont", "id": "act-135", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/vermont#act-135", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Genetic data privacy for consumer testing companies", "type": "Act 135 (2026), H.639", "summary": "Requires direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies to get a consumer’s separate express consent before disclosing genetic data to a third party, naming the recipient and purpose, and to honor revocation and deletion requests (9 V.S.A. 2421a to 2421d).", "forLicensees": "Genetic genealogy data depends on the consumer’s consent.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 135", "url": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Docs/ACTS/ACT135/ACT135%20As%20Enacted.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Wyoming", "id": "hb-96", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/wyoming#hb-96", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Concealed carry age lowered to 18", "type": "HB 96 (2026), ch. 87", "summary": "Lowers the age in W.S. 6-8-104(b)(ii) from 21 to 18. Because permitless carry requires meeting that qualification, the permitless concealed carry age also falls to 18.", "forLicensees": "Otherwise qualified investigators aged 18 to 20 may carry concealed.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 96", "url": "https://wyoleg.gov/2026/Enroll/HB0096.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Wyoming", "id": "hb-102", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/wyoming#hb-102", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Felony to distribute nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images", "type": "HB 102 (2026), ch. 91", "summary": "Makes it a felony, punishable by up to 10 years, to knowingly distribute synthetic sexual material realistically depicting an identifiable person without consent where the distribution causes or is intended to cause harm, or to threaten to distribute it to obtain a benefit (W.S. 6-4-307).", "forLicensees": "Never use or share such material as leverage.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 102", "url": "https://wyoleg.gov/2026/Enroll/HB0102.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Wyoming", "id": "hb-8", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/wyoming#hb-8", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "Stalking a minor becomes felony stalking", "type": "HB 8 (2026), ch. 37", "summary": "Makes stalking a felony punishable by up to 10 years when committed against a minor by someone at least 18 (W.S. 6-2-506(e)(v)). The existing electronic surveillance prong of stalking, added in 2022, is unchanged.", "forLicensees": "In custody and runaway cases, get documented authorization from a parent or guardian with legal authority.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 8", "url": "https://wyoleg.gov/2026/Enroll/HB0008.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "New Jersey", "id": "pl-2026-c25", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-jersey#pl-2026-c25", "date": "2026-06-30", "title": "Data broker law with no investigator exemption", "type": "P.L.2026, c.25 (A5328)", "summary": "A data broker collects or buys personal data about consumers it has no direct relationship with and sells or licenses it to a third party; a data collector gathers data from consumers it deals with and sells it to data brokers (N.J.S.A. 56:8-166.20). Each must register with the Division of Consumer Affairs every year, paying from $5,000 to $1,500,000 depending on how many New Jersey consumers’ data it holds. No data broker or data collector may sell or license sensitive data, which includes precise geolocation (56:8-166.22), with penalties of $2,500 a day for failing to register and $50,000 per sensitive-data record sold. Publicly available information is excluded, and the exemptions do not name private detectives.", "forLicensees": "An investigator who buys personal data about people it has no direct relationship with and resells or licenses it can meet the data broker definition, and many of the data vendors investigators buy from can be covered, subject to the act’s exemptions (for example, data governed by the FCRA or GLBA, and Motor Vehicle Commission data released under the DPPA).", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L.2026, c.25", "url": "https://pub.njleg.gov/Bills/2026/PL26/25_.HTM" }, { "label": "A5328", "url": "https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2026/A5328" } ] }, { "state": "Rhode Island", "id": "pl-2026-261", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/rhode-island#pl-2026-261", "date": "2026-06-26", "title": "Process service fee set at $70", "type": "P.L. 2026, ch. 261", "summary": "Makes the fee of deputy sheriffs, town sergeants, and constables for serving writs, citations, and subpoenas a fixed $70 rather than a maximum (R.I. Gen. Laws 9-29-9(b)). P.L. 2025, ch. 83, effective June 18, 2025, had raised the maximum from $45 to $70.", "forLicensees": "Budget $70 per service by a sheriff or constable.", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L. 2026, ch. 261", "url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/PublicLaws/law26/law26261.htm" }, { "label": "P.L. 2025, ch. 83", "url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/PublicLaws/law25/law25083.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Hawaii", "id": "wolford", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/hawaii#wolford", "date": "2026-06-25", "title": "Supreme Court strikes the default ban on carry onto private property open to the public", "type": "Wolford v. Lopez, No. 24-1046 (U.S.)", "summary": "Held that HRS 134-9.5, which bars carry license holders from carrying handguns onto private property of another without the express authorization of the owner, lessee, operator, or manager, violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments as applied to private property open to the public. The Court decided only that question.", "forLicensees": "Owners may still exclude armed people, and the sensitive-place limits in HRS 134-9.1 and the written authorization rule in HAR 16-97-17 were not before the Court.", "sources": [ { "label": "Opinion", "url": "https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1046_nmio.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Rhode Island", "id": "pl-2026-412", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/rhode-island#pl-2026-412", "date": "2026-06-23", "title": "Impersonation and digital forgery become felony identity fraud", "type": "P.L. 2026, chs. 412 and 413", "summary": "Adds to felony identity fraud knowingly impersonating a person or entity, living or dead, with intent to defraud or injure, and knowingly generating or distributing a forged digital likeness, such as an AI-generated image or voice of an identifiable person, as genuine to facilitate fraud (R.I. Gen. Laws 11-49.1-3(a)(7)-(8)). Exceptions cover constitutionally protected activity, law enforcement officers performing official duties, technology providers, and activity otherwise protected by state or federal law; there is no exception for private detectives.", "forLicensees": "A pretext that impersonates a real person or business with intent to defraud or injure can be charged as felony identity fraud.", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L. 2026, ch. 412", "url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/PublicLaws/law26/law26412.htm" }, { "label": "P.L. 2026, ch. 413", "url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/PublicLaws/law26/law26413.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Rhode Island", "id": "pl-2026-222", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/rhode-island#pl-2026-222", "date": "2026-06-19", "title": "Genetic Information Privacy Act", "type": "P.L. 2026, ch. 222", "summary": "New chapter 6-63 requires direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies to obtain express consent, honor revocation of consent, destroy samples within 30 days after consent to store them is revoked, and secure genetic data.", "forLicensees": "Genetic genealogy data depends on the consumer’s express consent to the testing company.", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L. 2026, ch. 222", "url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/PublicLaws/law26/law26222.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Missouri", "id": "hb-2637", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#hb-2637", "date": "2026-06-12", "title": "New crime of tracking a vehicle without the owners’ consent, with no exception for investigators", "type": "House Bills 2637 & 3155, 103rd General Assembly", "summary": "Enacted RSMo 565.260. A person commits unlawful tracking of a motor vehicle by knowingly installing, concealing, or placing an electronic tracking device in or on a motor vehicle without the consent of all owners of the vehicle, for the purpose of monitoring or following its occupants. The listed exceptions cover law enforcement in a criminal investigation, a parent or guardian who owns or leases the vehicle and monitors a minor child, tracking stolen goods or a stolen vehicle, a legally authorized representative of a vulnerable adult, anyone with the consent of all owners, rental, sharing, and leasing companies, lienholders repossessing a vehicle, and voluntary usage-based insurance programs. There is no exception for licensed private investigators. A first offense is a class A misdemeanor; a second or later offense is a class E felony.", "forLicensees": "From July 1, 2027, do not place a GPS tracker on a vehicle without the consent of every owner. A client’s business purpose is not an exception.", "sources": [ { "label": "RSMo 565.260", "url": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=565.260" }, { "label": "Truly agreed text", "url": "https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills261/hlrbillspdf/6162H.09T.pdf" }, { "label": "Governor’s action", "url": "https://governor.mo.gov/legislation/hb-2637" } ] }, { "state": "West Virginia", "id": "hb-4106", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/west-virginia#hb-4106", "date": "2026-06-12", "title": "Permitless concealed carry extended to ages 18 to 20", "type": "HB 4106 (2026)", "summary": "Allows a person at least 18 who is a U.S. citizen or legal resident and is not prohibited from possessing firearms to carry a concealed deadly weapon without a license (W. Va. Code 61-7-7(c)); permitless carry for those 21 and older already existed.", "forLicensees": "An investigator license still does not itself authorize carry.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 4106", "url": "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4106&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill" } ] }, { "state": "West Virginia", "id": "hb-5528", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/west-virginia#hb-5528", "date": "2026-06-12", "title": "Public officials may have home addresses removed from government websites", "type": "HB 5528 (2026), new W. Va. Code 5A-8-24a", "summary": "Lets current or former judicial officers, prosecutors, public defenders, law enforcement officers, elected officials, campaign treasurers, and their household family members ask a state or local agency to remove or redact their home address and personal phone from a publicly accessible website or database. Exceptions include recorded title documents, disclosures to consumer reporting agencies, title insurers, attorneys, and real estate brokers, disclosures required under the motor vehicle records statute, and disclosures under subpoena. It binds government agencies, not private parties.", "forLicensees": "Expect redacted addresses in some online government records.", "sources": [ { "label": "W. Va. Code 5A-8-24a", "url": "https://code.wvlegislature.gov/5A-8-24a/" } ] }, { "state": "Washington", "id": "hb-2632", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/washington#hb-2632", "date": "2026-06-11", "title": "“Resident alien” becomes “resident noncitizen”", "type": "HB 2632, 2026 c 36 s 22", "summary": "Changes the term in RCW 18.165.030(2), so an applicant must be a citizen or resident noncitizen of the United States. It is the only amendment to chapter 18.165 RCW from 2023 through October 2026.", "forLicensees": "The requirement is unchanged in substance.", "sources": [ { "label": "2026 c 36", "url": "https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/2632.SL.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Vermont", "id": "act-119", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/vermont#act-119", "date": "2026-06-08", "title": "License rescission process", "type": "Act 119 (2026), H.588", "summary": "Lets the Office of Professional Regulation rescind a license issued by administrative mistake or for which the application fee was not paid, with notice and an opportunity for review or a hearing; a rescission is not recorded as discipline (3 V.S.A. 129c).", "forLicensees": "Make sure application fees clear.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 119", "url": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Docs/ACTS/ACT119/ACT119%20As%20Enacted.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "sb-1587", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#sb-1587", "date": "2026-06-05", "title": "Public bodies need an immigration attestation from data brokers", "type": "SB 1587, Oregon Laws 2026 chapter 96", "summary": "An Oregon public body may not disclose personally identifiable information to a data broker unless the broker first attests in writing that the information will not be sold or transferred to any entity that will use it to enforce federal immigration law, and the public body must reject an attestation it reasonably believes contains material misrepresentations, falsehoods, or omissions. Disclosures required by the public records law or a court order, and information available to the general public disclosed on the same terms, are not restricted.", "forLicensees": "An investigator business that is a data broker under ORS 646A.593 must give the attestation to obtain such information from a public body outside those exceptions.", "sources": [ { "label": "2026 c.96", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2026orLaw0096.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Alabama", "id": "act-2026-135", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alabama#act-2026-135", "date": "2026-06-01", "title": "Board continued to October 1, 2028", "type": "Act 2026-135 (SB126)", "summary": "Under the Alabama Sunset Law, continues the Private Investigation Board until October 1, 2028, without changing licensing requirements. An earlier act, Act 2024-140 (SB118, effective June 1, 2024), had continued the Board to October 1, 2026.", "forLicensees": "The act continues the Board until October 1, 2028, when it faces sunset review again, and does not change licensing requirements.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 2026-135", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2026RS/SB126-enr.pdf" }, { "label": "Act 2024-140", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2024RS/SB118-enr.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Indiana", "id": "lsa-26-152", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/indiana#lsa-26-152", "date": "2026-05-27", "title": "Proposed $50 late renewal fee", "type": "Proposed rule", "summary": "Would amend 874 IAC 2-1-1 to add a $50 late renewal fee for private investigator firms and security guard agencies. Public hearing held August 12, 2026. As of October 15, 2026, no final rule has been published.", "forLicensees": "Renew by October 1, 2027. If the rule is finalized, a late renewal will cost $50 on top of the $300 fee.", "sources": [ { "label": "Indiana Register notice", "url": "https://iar.iga.in.gov/register/20260527-IR-874260152FNA" }, { "label": "Rulemaking docket", "url": "https://www.in.gov/pla/rulesingov/lsa-document-26-152" } ] }, { "state": "Delaware", "id": "hb-197", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/delaware#hb-197", "date": "2026-05-21", "title": "Stalking definition expanded and penalties raised", "type": "HB 197, 85 Del. Laws c. 259", "summary": "Amends 11 Del. C. 1312. Stalking rises from a class G to a class E felony, and aggravated stalking from class F to class D. The definition of course of conduct is revised, and the affirmative defense now covers any constitutionally protected activity. The existing exemption for conduct in furtherance of legitimate activities of law enforcement, private investigators, security officers, or private detectives as those activities are defined in 24 Del. C. chapter 13 (1312(j)) was not changed.", "forLicensees": "The exemption covers only conduct in furtherance of legitimate investigative activities as defined in 24 Del. C. chapter 13.", "sources": [ { "label": "85 Del. Laws c. 259", "url": "https://delcode.delaware.gov/sessionlaws/ga153/chp259.shtml" } ] }, { "state": "New Mexico", "id": "sb-111", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-mexico#sb-111", "date": "2026-05-20", "title": "More MVD record fields made confidential", "type": "SB 111 (2026), Laws 2026, ch. 11", "summary": "Adds sex, gender identity, immigration status, and national origin to the Motor Vehicle Code’s definition of personal information (NMSA 66-1-4.14(F)), which is confidential under 66-2-7.1.", "forLicensees": "Expect these fields to be redacted from MVD records.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 111", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/final/SB0111.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Virginia", "id": "noira-6646", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/virginia#noira-6646", "date": "2026-05-20", "title": "Proposal to add human trafficking training for security officers", "type": "Notice of intended regulatory action, 6VAC20-174 (Town Hall action 6646)", "summary": "DCJS proposes to add the human trafficking training required by HB 203 to entry-level and in-service training for unarmed and armed security officers, couriers, security canine handlers, and alarm respondents, adding one hour. An earlier emergency stage was withdrawn June 12, 2026. Private investigator training is not among the categories named.", "forLicensees": "As described, private investigator training hours would not change.", "sources": [ { "label": "Town Hall action 6646", "url": "https://townhall.virginia.gov/L/ViewAction.cfm?actionid=6646" } ] }, { "state": "Georgia", "id": "sb-207", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/georgia#sb-207", "date": "2026-05-12", "title": "Criminal record review and preclearance for licensing boards", "type": "Senate Bill 207, Act 628 (2026)", "summary": "O.C.G.A. 43-1-19(q) already limited denials and revocations for a criminal record to offenses that directly relate to the occupation. For applications filed on or after July 1, 2027, SB 207 replaces “crime involving moral turpitude” with “covered misdemeanor” (a misdemeanor conviction within five years before the application, or one listed in O.C.G.A. 35-3-37(j)(4)(B)), requires individualized consideration with no automatic denial, and adds a right to a hearing before a denial based on a criminal record, 30 days to respond to a notice of record issues, petitions for a binding predetermination of eligibility, and duties for boards to post the standard and report annually. How the act interacts with the Board’s own disqualifiers in O.C.G.A. 43-38-6 has not been confirmed.", "forLicensees": "Applicants with a criminal record can ask for a predetermination before applying, from July 1, 2027.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 207", "url": "https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/70493" }, { "label": "As passed", "url": "https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20252026/249067" } ] }, { "state": "Minnesota", "id": "ch-83-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/minnesota#ch-83-2026", "date": "2026-05-12", "title": "Partnerships removed; corporate officers must qualify", "type": "2026 Minn. Laws ch. 83", "summary": "Removes partnerships from the parties that can apply for or hold a private detective or protective agent license. For a corporate applicant, the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, qualified representative, and any Minnesota manager must each meet the licensing requirements, including the fingerprint-based criminal history check. Before this change, only one member had to qualify. The House says the change gives the board full access to FBI criminal records to vet applicants.", "forLicensees": "Corporate license holders should expect fingerprinting and background checks for the CEO and CFO as well as the qualified representative and Minnesota manager.", "sources": [ { "label": "Session law", "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2026/0/83/" }, { "label": "House summary", "url": "https://www.house.mn.gov/NewLaws/story/2026/5768" }, { "label": "HF 4151 status", "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF4151&ssn=0&y=2026" } ] }, { "state": "Kansas", "id": "sb-30", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/kansas#sb-30", "date": "2026-05-07", "title": "New licenses and material license changes need the Legislature’s approval", "type": "SB 30 (2026)", "summary": "A new occupational license, or a material change to an existing one, that an agency proposes on or after January 1, 2026 needs ratification by bill before it takes effect. Each licensing agency, including the Attorney General, must report on each license to the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules and Regulations every September.", "forLicensees": "A material change to the private detective license that the Attorney General proposes on or after January 1, 2026 takes effect only if the Legislature ratifies it by bill.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 30", "url": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/SB30/" } ] }, { "state": "Tennessee", "id": "pc-955", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/tennessee#pc-955", "date": "2026-05-07", "title": "Citizenship or qualified alien status required", "type": "2026 Public Chapter 955 (HB 1709)", "summary": "Deletes the citizenship subdivisions for private investigators and companies (62-26-206(a)(2), 62-26-207(a)(2)) and adds a section to Title 62, Chapter 76 requiring a person to be a U.S. citizen or a qualified alien under Tenn. Code Ann. 4-58-102 to be eligible for any license from an entity created under Title 62. It applies to licenses applied for or renewed on or after May 7, 2026.", "forLicensees": "Applicants and renewing licensees must be U.S. citizens or qualified aliens.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Chapter 955", "url": "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/114/pub/pc0955.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Utah", "id": "hb-158", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/utah#hb-158", "date": "2026-05-06", "title": "Tracking a person or using a tracking app without permission is a crime", "type": "H.B. 158 (2026), Laws of Utah 2026, ch. 442", "summary": "Expands Utah Code 76-12-305 to cover placing a tracker on a person or the person’s property and using a tracking application, as well as vehicle trackers, without permission. The licensed investigator exception applies only to vehicle trackers and still requires a protective order check first (76-12-305(4), (7)). An injured person may recover statutory damages of $50 a day or $5,000, whichever is greater.", "forLicensees": "There is no investigator exception for trackers on people, their belongings, or phones.", "sources": [ { "label": "H.B. 158", "url": "https://le.utah.gov/Session/2026/bills/enrolled/HB0158.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Ohio", "id": "oac-4501-7-1-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/ohio#oac-4501-7-1-2026", "date": "2026-05-01", "title": "Rules updated for two-year licenses; concealed handgun license requirement removed", "type": "Final rule", "summary": "The Department of Public Safety amended 13 rules, kept 7 without change, and rescinded rule 4501:7-1-20, which covered meetings of the now abolished Ohio Private Investigation and Security Services Commission. The rules now set a $200 initial license fee and a $550 two-year renewal fee. Employee registration is filed online, with fingerprints, within seven calendar days of hire. Peace officer experience may count if gained within the last 20 years, up from 10. Passport-style photos, outdated payment methods, and the requirement to hold a concealed handgun license while working were removed. The firearm bearer rule, 4501:7-1-22, took effect July 1, 2026.", "forLicensees": "Renew every two years at $550. Register new employees online within seven days of hire. A concealed handgun license is no longer required to carry a firearm on duty, but a valid firearm bearer notation still is.", "sources": [ { "label": "Current rules", "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/chapter-4501:7-1" }, { "label": "CSI review memo", "url": "https://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/servlet/RooBusinessPDF?ruleActionId=700823&docTypeId=15" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "mar-2025-404", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#mar-2025-404", "date": "2026-04-11", "title": "Substantial equivalency list for out-of-state applicants", "type": "MAR Notice No. 2025-404; new ARM 24.182.410", "summary": "Implements HB 246 (Ch. 76, L. 2025, effective October 1, 2025) by incorporating the Department’s 2025 substantial equivalency list for the Private Security Program. Applications from people licensed in a listed state are treated as routine as to education, exam, and experience. The Department’s published determinations, an undated document, mark Louisiana, Nebraska, New Jersey, and New Mexico as substantially equivalent for private investigators.", "forLicensees": "Fingerprints, insurance, and other Montana requirements still apply.", "sources": [ { "label": "Notice of adoption", "url": "https://rules.mt.gov/api/policy-library-public/collections/5e1173a6-33c7-4df8-b426-5e0077cfc430/policies/6b3719ba-487a-4a12-a9b4-30183cdfe308" }, { "label": "Department determinations", "url": "https://boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/_global-pages/Montana-Substantial-Equivalency-Determinations.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "North Carolina", "id": "rules-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-carolina#rules-2026", "date": "2026-04-01", "title": "Application rules list required information; armed rules updated for S.L. 2025-51", "type": "Final rule, 14B NCAC 16 .0203, .0205, .0703, .0706, .0806 to .0808, .0902, .0904, .0910, .0911, .1203, .1306, .1406", "summary": "The Board said most changes answer a Rules Review Commission finding that its application and renewal rules did not list what an application must contain. Rule .0203(a) now lists the information a renewal application includes. Other changes carry out S.L. 2025-51: the Board may consider expunged charges and convictions, and status under the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act is recognized for the concealed handgun rules (.0807, .0808). Rule .1203 adds a $100 fee to evaluate a continuing education course, shortens course approval from 4 years to 2, and lowers instructor credit from 5 hours to 4 per hour taught.", "forLicensees": "Renewal applications must include the information listed in .0203(a).", "sources": [ { "label": "NC Register 40:08, proposed rules", "url": "https://files.nc.gov/oah/documents/2025-10/Volume-40-Issue-08-October-15-2025.pdf" }, { "label": "14B NCAC 16", "url": "http://reports.oah.state.nc.us/ncac/title%2014b%20-%20public%20safety/chapter%2016%20-%20private%20protective%20services%20board/chapter%2016%20rules.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "sb-1516", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#sb-1516", "date": "2026-03-31", "title": "License plate reader data limited", "type": "SB 1516, Oregon Laws 2026 chapter 77", "summary": "Limits law enforcement use of automated license plate recognition data and bars agency system vendors from selling or sharing it. Captured data is conditionally exempt from public disclosure: a request must identify the approximate date and time and be tailored to material for which the public interest requires disclosure (ORS 192.345(44)).", "forLicensees": "Law enforcement plate data is available by public records request only on those conditions, and agency vendors may not sell it.", "sources": [ { "label": "2026 c.77", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2026orLaw0077.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Washington", "id": "essb-6002", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/washington#essb-6002", "date": "2026-03-30", "title": "License plate reader data closed to public records requests", "type": "ESSB 6002, 2026 c 239", "summary": "Agency automated license plate reader data is exempt from the Public Records Act except for bona fide research without individually identifiable information. Agencies may not sell or buy it, and vendors of license plate reader systems may not sell or give access to the data to any unauthorized person or entity. Willful unauthorized use, sale, or dissemination is a gross misdemeanor.", "forLicensees": "Agency license plate reader data cannot be obtained through a public records request or bought from system vendors.", "sources": [ { "label": "2026 c 239", "url": "https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6002-S.SL.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Wisconsin", "id": "ab-746", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/wisconsin#ab-746", "date": "2026-03-23", "title": "Licensing exemption bill fails to pass", "type": "Bill, not enacted", "summary": "Would have exempted volunteers on a church safety or security team from private detective and private security licensing and permit requirements while on the premises of the church. Recommended for passage by the Assembly Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform on January 15, 2026, by a vote of 5 to 2. It never reached a floor vote and failed to pass on March 23, 2026, under Senate Joint Resolution 1.", "forLicensees": "Nothing changed. A similar proposal could return in the 2027 to 2028 session.", "sources": [ { "label": "Bill history", "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/ab746" } ] }, { "state": "North Dakota", "id": "audit-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-dakota#audit-2026", "date": "2026-03-16", "title": "State Auditor’s performance audit of the Board", "type": "State Auditor report, required by SB 2051 (2025)", "summary": "Covering January 2019 through June 2025, the audit found five problem areas: no documented policies or procedures; licensing inefficiencies, including no accurate list of licensees and registrants; manual pocket-card production; an impractical renewal period with application backlogs; and not using Attorney General legal services.", "forLicensees": "Confirm another investigator’s license directly with the Board.", "sources": [ { "label": "State Auditor", "url": "https://www.nd.gov/auditor/news/legislatively-mandated-audit-private-investigative-and-security-board-finds-five-areas" } ] }, { "state": "District of Columbia", "id": "dlcp-digital-id", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/district-of-columbia#dlcp-digital-id", "date": "2026-03-13", "title": "Digital identification cards replace printed cards", "type": "DLCP bulletin", "summary": "DLCP no longer prints security identification cards; licensees print a digital license from their Access DC account.", "forLicensees": "The bulletin is addressed to security officers and agencies; private detectives, who must carry their identification card while doing business (17 DCMR 2005.1), should confirm with DLCP that the printed digital license meets that requirement.", "sources": [ { "label": "DLCP bulletin", "url": "https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/DCWASH/bulletins/40e1b52" } ] }, { "state": "Wyoming", "id": "sf-20", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/wyoming#sf-20", "date": "2026-03-06", "title": "Government agencies barred from selling personal data", "type": "SF 20 (2026), ch. 48", "summary": "Bars state and local government entities, other than the courts and law enforcement, from buying, selling, trading, or transferring personal data without the person’s written consent, except as provided by law and for listed transfers (W.S. 9-21-201 to -203). Disclosure under the Wyoming Public Records Act is preserved.", "forLicensees": "Public records requests still work; bulk data deals with agencies need consent or an approved exception.", "sources": [ { "label": "SF 20", "url": "https://wyoleg.gov/2026/Enroll/SF0020.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "District of Columbia", "id": "dlcp-transfer", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/district-of-columbia#dlcp-transfer", "date": "2026-03-02", "title": "Up to 15 days of work while a transfer is processed", "type": "DLCP bulletin", "summary": "A licensee, including a private detective, may work for a new agency for up to 15 days while a transfer application is processed, if the current license is active and the transfer does not result from termination or dismissal. If the transfer is denied, the license becomes inactive.", "forLicensees": "File the transfer before starting with the new agency.", "sources": [ { "label": "DLCP bulletin", "url": "https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/DCWASH/bulletins/40c4760" } ] }, { "state": "Missouri", "id": "20-csr-2234-6-010-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#20-csr-2234-6-010-2026", "date": "2026-02-28", "title": "Repeating a continuing education course now needs board approval", "type": "Final rule", "summary": "Private investigators and agency investigator employees may not take the same course in consecutive cycles without a written request to the board that gives the reason for repeating it. The amendment also restates the reporting cycles as March 1 to February 28 of every even year for investigators and May 1 to April 30 of every even year for agency employees. Hour requirements are unchanged. The proposal was published October 1, 2025, and adopted without changes.", "forLicensees": "Get written board approval before counting a repeated course toward your 16 or 8 hours.", "sources": [ { "label": "20 CSR 2234-6.010", "url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/adrules/csr/current/20csr/20c2234-6.pdf" }, { "label": "Proposed amendment, 50 MoReg 1370", "url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/AdRules/moreg/2025/v50n19Oct1/v50n19.pdf" }, { "label": "Order of rulemaking, 51 MoReg 158", "url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/AdRules/moreg/2026/v51n2Jan15/v51n2.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Delaware", "id": "rule-1300-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/delaware#rule-1300-2026", "date": "2026-02-11", "title": "Board rules amended for armed guards and detection canines", "type": "Final order, 29 DE Reg. 706", "summary": "Shortens the interval between firearm qualification shoots for armed security and armored car guards from 90 to 60 days, adds leave waivers, and requires the 40-hour course again after a 36-month suspension. Allows detection canines for Class B and C agencies with Board approval. The investigator rules (8.0), license holder rules (9.0), and fees, bonds, and insurance (13.0) are unchanged apart from minor wording.", "forLicensees": "Investigator requirements are unchanged.", "sources": [ { "label": "29 DE Reg. 706", "url": "https://regulations.delaware.gov/register/february2026/final/29%20DE%20Reg%20706%2002-01-26" } ] }, { "state": "Delaware", "id": "sb-32", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/delaware#sb-32", "date": "2026-02-08", "title": "Correctional officers may have personal information taken down", "type": "SB 32, 85 Del. Laws c. 125", "summary": "Adds 11 Del. C. 6594 to 6598. After a written request from a Department of Correction correctional, probation, or parole officer (active, former, or retired) who serves or served on or after February 8, 2026, any person must remove the officer’s or family’s listed personal information, including home address and phone numbers, from public display within 72 hours and may not post it again. Damages are at least $10,000.", "forLicensees": "Do not publicly post a requesting officer’s listed information.", "sources": [ { "label": "85 Del. Laws c. 125", "url": "https://delcode.delaware.gov/sessionlaws/ga153/chp125.shtml" } ] }, { "state": "New York", "id": "dos-repeal-171-8", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-york#dos-repeal-171-8", "date": "2026-02-04", "title": "Bail enforcement schools no longer send student lists", "type": "Final rule, I.D. No. DOS-24-25-00004", "summary": "Repeals 19 NYCRR 171.8, which required a school giving the 25-hour qualifying course for bail enforcement agents to send the Department the names and addresses of students who passed. Bail enforcement agents are licensed under the same Article 7 as private investigators; the rule does not apply to investigators.", "forLicensees": "No change for private investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "NYS Register, February 4, 2026", "url": "https://dos.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/02/020426.pdf" }, { "label": "Proposed rule", "url": "https://dos.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2025/06/061825_compressed.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "bsis-exam-rule", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#bsis-exam-rule", "date": "2026-01-30", "title": "Proposed rule would update exam application rules", "type": "Proposed rule, 16 CCR 601, 601.1, 621, 625, 628, 636, and 643", "summary": "BSIS proposes to drop the 20-day filing deadline before an exam in 16 CCR 601 and repeal the exam scheduling and notice rules in 16 CCR 601.1, which it says no longer match its practice now that its vendor schedules exams. It would also broaden what counts as an advertisement under 16 CCR 621, update terminology, and repeal 16 CCR 636 on firearms course approval.", "forLicensees": "Nothing changes until the rule is approved. No effective date has been set.", "sources": [ { "label": "BSIS proposed regulations", "url": "https://www.bsis.ca.gov/about_us/laws/prop_regs.shtml" }, { "label": "Notice of proposed action", "url": "https://www.bsis.ca.gov/about_us/laws/exam_app_repeal_notice.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Louisiana", "id": "lac-55-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/louisiana#lac-55-2026", "date": "2026-01-20", "title": "State Police background-check access widened beyond investigators", "type": "Final rule, LAC 55:I.205 (LR 52:66-67)", "summary": "Licensed Louisiana private investigators remain eligible to be approved as an “authorized agency” to request criminal history checks on licensed ambulance personnel and nonlicensed persons for employers under R.S. 40:1203.1 and following (LAC 55:I.205(A)(1)). The rule adds employees of Louisiana businesses whose primary business is background screening. It also states that each check carries the $5 technology fee set by R.S. 15:587(D), on top of the $26 fee (LAC 55:I.207(B)).", "forLicensees": "Investigators keep their eligibility, and background-screening firms are now eligible too.", "sources": [ { "label": "Louisiana Register, January 2026", "url": "https://www.doa.la.gov/media/f4jgihze/2601.docx" }, { "label": "Notice of intent", "url": "https://www.doa.la.gov/media/1dinjutv/2510.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "New Jersey", "id": "pl-2025-c367", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-jersey#pl-2025-c367", "date": "2026-01-20", "title": "Data privacy law exemptions amended", "type": "P.L.2025, c.367 (A5017)", "summary": "Rewrites the exemptions and definitions in the 2023 data privacy law, widening the existing health information and human-subjects research exemptions (to information treated like HIPAA-protected health information and to research under ICH good clinical practice guidelines) and adding insurance-support organizations and national securities associations. It adds no exemption for private detectives.", "forLicensees": "No change in how the privacy law treats investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L.2025, c.367", "url": "https://pub.njleg.gov/Bills/2024/PL25/367_.HTM" } ] }, { "state": "New Mexico", "id": "rule-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-mexico#rule-2026", "date": "2026-01-13", "title": "Continuing education audits and record-keeping; new fees", "type": "16.48 NMAC amendments, N.M. Register Vol. XXXVII, Issue 1", "summary": "Continuing education must be completed within the renewal period, licensees must keep documentation including provider contact information, renewing licensees are randomly audited, and the board may accept a sworn affidavit in place of documents at renewal (16.48.7.8). Adds a $35 returned-check fee and a $10 administration fee (16.48.5.8) and drops the photo requirement for renewals.", "forLicensees": "Keep CE certificates for the full cycle; renewing on an affidavit can still lead to an audit.", "sources": [ { "label": "N.M. Register", "url": "https://prod-rf-lambda.rtssaas.com/PublicFiles/d89c47bd0d70402dba89b03a22bda6d1/9339cf4c-dafd-4c34-b076-cbb226bd050d/xxxvii01.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "sb-553", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#sb-553", "date": "2026-01-01", "title": "Attorney-sponsored investigators eligible for state prison gate clearances", "type": "Senate Bill 553, Chapter 226, Statutes of 2025", "summary": "Amends Penal Code 7460 to 7467. A private investigator licensed by any state who is sponsored by an attorney or appointed by a court counts as an attorney representative, eligible for annual and short-term gate clearances from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Employees of a licensed investigator, sponsored by that investigator, count as attorney support staff. This is a practice change, not a licensing change.", "forLicensees": "Investigators working for an attorney or a court can apply for gate clearances to visit state prisons.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 553", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB553" } ] }, { "state": "Nevada", "id": "ab-4-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/nevada#ab-4-2025", "date": "2026-01-01", "title": "Stalking law expanded to dating relationships and electronic conduct", "type": "AB 4, 36th Special Session (2025), chapter 9", "summary": "Expands NRS 200.575 to cover conduct causing fear for the safety of someone in a dating relationship with the victim, and provides that stalking includes acts committed in person and by electronic means. The existing exclusion of activities carried out in the normal course of lawful employment was relettered without change.", "forLicensees": "The lawful-employment exclusion was not changed.", "sources": [ { "label": "36th Special Session, ch. 9", "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Statutes/36thSS2025/Stats2025SS3601.html" }, { "label": "NRS 200.575", "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-200.html" } ] }, { "state": "Oklahoma", "id": "hb-2104", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oklahoma#hb-2104", "date": "2026-01-01", "title": "False statements on license applications become a Class D1 felony", "type": "HB 2104, Laws 2025, chapter 486, section 541", "summary": "Willfully making a false statement in, or committing fraud in connection with, an application to CLEET under the Act (59 O.S. 1750.11(B)) was a felony punishable by 2 to 5 years. It is now a Class D1 felony, punishable by up to 5 years for an offender without qualifying prior convictions (longer with them), with a fine of up to $2,000 unchanged.", "forLicensees": "Falsifying an application remains a felony; the fixed 2-year minimum no longer applies to first offenders.", "sources": [ { "label": "59 O.S. 1750.11", "url": "https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=96657" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "hb-2008", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#hb-2008", "date": "2026-01-01", "title": "Sale of precise location data banned", "type": "HB 2008, Oregon Laws 2025 chapter 251", "summary": "A controller covered by the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act may not sell personal data that locates a consumer, or a linked device, within 1,750 feet, or personal data of a consumer it knows, or willfully disregards, is under 16 (ORS 646A.578(2)(d)).", "forLicensees": "Covered data vendors may not sell precise location data on Oregon consumers to anyone.", "sources": [ { "label": "2025 c.251", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2025orLaw0251.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "sb-1121", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#sb-1121", "date": "2026-01-01", "title": "New crime of unlawful disclosure of private information", "type": "SB 1121, Oregon Laws 2025 chapter 417 (ORS 163.720)", "summary": "It is a Class B misdemeanor to knowingly cause another person’s personal information, such as a home address, personal phone, or a child’s school, to be disclosed, when done with intent to stalk or injure the person or damage their property, knowing or having reason to know they did not consent, and the person is then stalked or injured or the property damaged.", "forLicensees": "The crime requires intent to stalk, injure, or damage property and resulting harm; it has no investigator exception.", "sources": [ { "label": "2025 c.417", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2025orLaw0417.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "sb-797", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#sb-797", "date": "2026-01-01", "title": "Accountant exception reworded", "type": "SB 797, Oregon Laws 2025 chapter 132, section 32", "summary": "Amends the accountant exception in ORS 703.411(18) to refer to an individual holding an active license under the revised accountancy law. It is the only amendment to ORS 703 from 2023 through October 2026.", "forLicensees": "The accountant exception still exists; only its definition changed.", "sources": [ { "label": "2025 c.132", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2025orLaw0132.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Rhode Island", "id": "judicial-security", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/rhode-island#judicial-security", "date": "2026-01-01", "title": "Judges’ personal information must be taken down on request", "type": "Judicial Security Act, P.L. 2025, chs. 282 and 283 (R.I. Gen. Laws 8-15-12)", "summary": "After written notice from a covered state or federal judge, any person, data aggregator, or business must remove the judge’s or family’s listed personal information, including residence addresses and phone numbers, from publicly available content within 10 business days, and data aggregators may not sell it.", "forLicensees": "Honor removal requests for anything you publish online, and after a request do not transfer the judge’s or family’s personal information to others (8-15-12(c)(6)).", "sources": [ { "label": "R.I. Gen. Laws 8-15-12", "url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE8/8-15/8-15-12.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Rhode Island", "id": "dtppa", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/rhode-island#dtppa", "date": "2026-01-01", "title": "Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act takes effect", "type": "P.L. 2024, chs. 430 and 453 (R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 6-48.1)", "summary": "Commercial websites and internet service providers that sell customers’ personally identifiable information must disclose the categories collected and the third parties it is sold to (6-48.1-3). Consumer rights and controller duties apply to businesses processing data of at least 35,000 customers, or 10,000 while deriving over 20% of revenue from selling personal data (6-48.1-4, -5, -7). Data handled in compliance with the FCRA or the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act is exempt; the Attorney General enforces.", "forLicensees": "Data vendors selling Rhode Island residents’ information must disclose buyers.", "sources": [ { "label": "R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 6-48.1", "url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE6/6-48.1/INDEX.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Texas", "id": "military-rules-2026", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/texas#military-rules-2026", "date": "2026-01-01", "title": "DPS rules for military applicants with out-of-state licenses", "type": "Final rule, 37 TAC 35.183 and new 35.186", "summary": "Carries out HB 5629 (below). A military service member, veteran, or spouse may apply with a current license from another state that is similar in scope of practice and in good standing, or with a Texas license held in the past five years. New 35.186 says that when a military service member or military spouse asks DPS to recognize an out-of-state license under Occupations Code 55.0041, DPS will decide whether it is similar in scope by comparing the other state’s license requirements, statutes, rules, and application review with its own.", "forLicensees": "DPS compares the other state’s requirements, not only the scope of practice, before recognizing a service member’s or spouse’s out-of-state license.", "sources": [ { "label": "Texas Register, adopted rules", "url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/archive/December262025/Adopted%20Rules/37.PUBLIC%20SAFETY%20AND%20CORRECTIONS.html" } ] }, { "state": "District of Columbia", "id": "law-26-55", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/district-of-columbia#law-26-55", "date": "2025-12-06", "title": "FBI Rap Back program for private detectives", "type": "D.C. Law 26-55, Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Support Act of 2025", "summary": "Adds D.C. Code 4-1551.01 to 4-1551.07. Private detectives, detective agencies, and security agencies fingerprinted for licensure are covered individuals. The Metropolitan Police Department must run a Rap Back program under which participating agencies may subscribe covered individuals to the FBI Rap Back service and be notified of later arrests (4-1551.04). The Department may set a subscription fee by rule.", "forLicensees": "If DLCP subscribes licensees, later arrests can reach it without self-reporting; no fee rule was found.", "sources": [ { "label": "D.C. Law 26-55", "url": "https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/laws/26-55" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "mar-2025-22", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#mar-2025-22", "date": "2025-12-06", "title": "Investigator fees cut to $80; photo ID rule", "type": "MAR Notice No. 2025-22", "summary": "Sets application and renewal fees at $80 for all license types (ARM 24.182.401); a private investigator previously paid $250 plus a $20 exam fee to apply and $175 to renew. The armed endorsement stays $50. Licensed investigators and supervised trainees already had to carry a photo ID card meeting the Department’s specifications; the amended rule (24.182.403) says “wear” in one paragraph and “wear or carry” in another, and the Department has said it will fix the wording.", "forLicensees": "Carry a compliant photo ID while working.", "sources": [ { "label": "Notice of adoption", "url": "https://rules.mt.gov/api/policy-library-public/collections/5e1173a6-33c7-4df8-b426-5e0077cfc430/policies/5a710981-d8fa-4540-96fe-4a4f9a0081b5" } ] }, { "state": "North Carolina", "id": "sl-2025-70", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-carolina#sl-2025-70", "date": "2025-12-01", "title": "Secret photography law rewritten; licensee exemption kept", "type": "Session Law 2025-70, section 8", "summary": "Rewrites G.S. 14-202, the secret peeping and photography law. New subsection (e1), which replaces the former under-the-clothing offense in (e), makes it a Class I felony to knowingly create a photographic image of a person’s private area (naked or undergarment-clad genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast) without consent, under circumstances in which the person has a reasonable expectation of privacy; that now includes circumstances where a reasonable person would believe the area is not visible to the public, whether in a public or private place (14-202(b)(4)). The existing exemption in 14-202(n) for people licensed under chapter 74C remains.", "forLicensees": "The 74C exemption still applies, but only to legal activities in the discharge of the licensee’s duties that are not for an improper purpose (14-202(n)).", "sources": [ { "label": "S.L. 2025-70", "url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/SessionLaws/HTML/2025-2026/SL2025-70.html" }, { "label": "G.S. 14-202", "url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_14/GS_14-202.html" } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "sb-861", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#sb-861", "date": "2025-10-10", "title": "Showing records to BSIS does not waive attorney privilege", "type": "Senate Bill 861, Chapter 592, Statutes of 2025", "summary": "Amends section 7524(e). Making signed client agreements and investigative findings available for BSIS inspection does not violate the rules on attorney work product, the attorney’s duty of confidentiality under section 6068(e), or the attorney-client privilege.", "forLicensees": "Investigators working for attorneys can produce the required records to BSIS without that being treated as a privilege or work product violation.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 861", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB861" }, { "label": "Section 7524", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=7524." } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "bsis-fees-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#bsis-fees-2025", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Licensing fees rise 10 percent", "type": "Final rule, 16 CCR 638 to 642.5 (OAL Matter 2025-0505-01)", "summary": "BSIS raised its licensing fees 10 percent, citing projected insolvency. Under 16 CCR 639, PI fees went from $340 to $374 for the application and exam, $385 to $424 for the original license, $400 to $440 for an assignment, and $265 to $292 for renewal. Applications received or postmarked on or after October 1, 2025 pay the new fees.", "forLicensees": "A renewal now costs $292, or $438 if delinquent.", "sources": [ { "label": "BSIS fee notice", "url": "https://www.bsis.ca.gov/forms_pubs/notice_fee_increase.pdf" }, { "label": "Approved regulations, 2025", "url": "https://www.bsis.ca.gov/about_us/laws/approved_regs2025.shtml" }, { "label": "Fee schedule", "url": "https://www.bsis.ca.gov/forms_pubs/newfees.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Colorado", "id": "sb24-041", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/colorado#sb24-041", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Privacy Act protections for minors’ data", "type": "SB 24-041", "summary": "Bars controllers that offer online services to known minors from processing their data for targeted advertising or sale, or collecting precise geolocation, without consent, regardless of the Colorado Privacy Act’s volume thresholds.", "forLicensees": "Less commercial geolocation data on minors will be available.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 24-041", "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-041" } ] }, { "state": "District of Columbia", "id": "law-24-333", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/district-of-columbia#law-24-333", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Detective licensing moves to DLCP occupational licensing", "type": "D.C. Law 24-333; start date set by D.C. Law 25-217, sec. 7286", "summary": "Repeals D.C. Code 47-2839 and 47-2839.01 and adds 47-2853.207 and 47-2853.208, under which individual detectives need an occupational license and agencies a public safety services license, each with Chief of Police approval. DLCP may issue civil penalties, suspend or revoke detective licenses, and set qualifications and fees by rule. D.C. Law 25-217 (effective September 18, 2024) fixed the October 1, 2025 start date.", "forLicensees": "17 DCMR chapter 20 has not been amended or repealed and remains in the DCMR; no new DLCP rules were found.", "sources": [ { "label": "D.C. Law 24-333", "url": "https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/laws/24-333" }, { "label": "D.C. Law 25-217", "url": "https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/laws/25-217" } ] }, { "state": "Florida", "id": "ch-2025-71", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/florida#ch-2025-71", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Tracking to commit a dangerous crime becomes a second-degree felony", "type": "CS/SB 1168, Chapter 2025-71, Laws of Florida", "summary": "Amends s. 934.425(5). Unlawful tracking remains a third-degree felony, but tracking done to commit or facilitate a dangerous crime listed in s. 907.041(5)(a) is a second-degree felony.", "forLicensees": "Unlawful tracking is also a ground for discipline under s. 493.6118(1)(y).", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 2025-71", "url": "https://laws.flrules.org/2025/71" }, { "label": "Section 934.425", "url": "http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0900-0999/0934/Sections/0934.425.html" } ] }, { "state": "Maryland", "id": "ch-575-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maryland#ch-575-2025", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Residential visual surveillance added to harassment and peace orders", "type": "Chapter 575 of 2025 (SB 92); crossfile Chapter 574 (HB 236)", "summary": "Criminal Law 3-803(b) now prohibits visual surveillance of an area of another person’s residence where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy, when done with intent to harass, alarm, or annoy, after a reasonable warning or request to stop, and without a legal purpose. All three conditions must be met. A peace order may require the surveillance device to be removed or repositioned.", "forLicensees": "Surveillance of private areas of a residence that continues after a request to stop, with intent to harass and without a legal purpose, can support a harassment charge or a peace order.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 575", "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_575_sb0092t.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Maryland", "id": "ch-152-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maryland#ch-152-2025", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Visual surveillance law covers residences; licensed detective exception unchanged", "type": "Chapter 152 of 2025 (SB 348); crossfile Chapter 153 (HB 437)", "summary": "Amends the visual surveillance with prurient intent law, Criminal Law 3-902, so that a residence, and any other place of private or public use, is now one of the listed places where a “private place” (a room in which a person can reasonably be expected to fully or partially disrobe and has a reasonable expectation of privacy) can be. The existing exception for a person who holds a Title 13 license and acts within the scope of the occupation without prurient intent was not changed.", "forLicensees": "The exception for licensed private detectives acting within the scope of their work without prurient intent still applies.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 152", "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_152_sb0348t.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Maryland", "id": "modpa-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maryland#modpa-2025", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Maryland Online Data Privacy Act takes effect", "type": "Chapter 455 of 2024 (SB 541); crossfile Chapter 454 (HB 567)", "summary": "Applies to businesses that controlled or processed the personal data of at least 35,000 Maryland consumers in the prior year, or at least 10,000 while getting more than 20 percent of gross revenue from selling personal data. Publicly available information is not personal data, and the Act exempts activity regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, data handled in compliance with the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, and processing to investigate or defend legal claims. It has no exemption naming private detectives.", "forLicensees": "Whether the Act reaches an agency depends on its thresholds and general exemptions.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 455", "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_455_sb0541e.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "hb-435", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#hb-435", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Duty to report actions; fines up to $5,000; client confidences protected", "type": "HB 435, Ch. 284, L. 2025", "summary": "Licensees must report actions bearing on their qualifications within 30 days of final disposition (MCA 37-1-150). The maximum fine for program licensees rises from $1,000 to $5,000 per violation (37-1-406), and revealing a client’s confidential information without consent becomes unprofessional conduct (37-1-410).", "forLicensees": "Report qualifying actions within 30 days.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 435", "url": "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0453" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "hb-414", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#hb-414", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Provisional licenses for applicants still completing requirements", "type": "HB 414, Ch. 279, L. 2025", "summary": "Allows a provisional license for an otherwise eligible applicant with pending conditions such as the exam or supervised experience (MCA 37-1-144), and lets a PI applicant who has not met the training and exam requirements apply for one (37-60-303(4)).", "forLicensees": "The program’s rules still call this the PI trainee provisional permit.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 414", "url": "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0214" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "sb-297", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#sb-297", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Consumer Data Privacy Act thresholds lowered", "type": "SB 297, Ch. 567, L. 2025", "summary": "The act now applies to businesses controlling or processing data of 25,000 or more consumers (down from 50,000), or 15,000 or more (down from 25,000) if over 25% of revenue comes from selling personal data (MCA 30-14-2803).", "forLicensees": "More data vendors are covered.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 297", "url": "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0372" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "hb-276", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#hb-276", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Address duty moved; notices may be served electronically", "type": "HB 276, Ch. 247, L. 2025", "summary": "Moves the existing duty to report address changes within 30 days into MCA 37-1-143 and adds a duty to keep an e-mail address current for licensees who consent to electronic service. Disciplinary notices may now be served electronically with consent, by certified mail to the most recent address, or in person, and the time to request a hearing becomes 21 days (37-1-403).", "forLicensees": "A stale address can lead to a default decision.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 276", "url": "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0215" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "hb-514", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#hb-514", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Intimate image offenses extended to fabricated images", "type": "HB 514, Ch. 686, L. 2025", "summary": "Extends MCA 45-8-213, which already barred publishing real intimate images to harass, to digitally fabricated images, to disclosures made to obtain money, and to threatening to disclose such images for money. The hidden-device recording offense, which requires the knowledge of all parties, is unchanged.", "forLicensees": "Montana’s all-party rule for hidden recording is unchanged.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 514", "url": "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3972" } ] }, { "state": "North Carolina", "id": "sl-2025-51", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-carolina#sl-2025-51", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Wider trainee permits, new denial grounds, and a LEOSA carry exemption", "type": "Session Law 2025-51 (Senate Bill 710), Parts II and III", "summary": "Trainee permits, already available for private investigators, now extend to polygraph, electronic countermeasures, and digital forensic examiner licenses, under the same 5-trainee cap (74C-2(c), 74C-9(i)). New grounds to deny or revoke a license include false statements in an audit and committing larceny, burglary, a sexual offense, or forgery (74C-12(a)). Any licensee, not only a private investigator, may now be approved to carry concealed on duty (74C-13(n)), and a licensee authorized under the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (18 U.S.C. 926B or 926C) no longer needs a state concealed handgun permit (new 74C-13(p)), though the Board’s concealed carry endorsement is still required (14B NCAC 16 .0808(c)). The Board may now see expunged criminal records for licensing (G.S. 15A-151(a)(10)), and may charge up to $100 to review a continuing education course (74C-9(e)(17)).", "forLicensees": "Expunged records can now be weighed in licensing decisions. Qualified current and retired officers can rely on LEOSA instead of a state concealed handgun permit, but still need the Board’s endorsement.", "sources": [ { "label": "S.L. 2025-51", "url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/SessionLaws/HTML/2025-2026/SL2025-51.html" }, { "label": "SB 710", "url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S710" } ] }, { "state": "Washington", "id": "eshb-1439", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/washington#eshb-1439", "date": "2025-10-01", "title": "Vehicle owners told the requester is an investigator", "type": "ESHB 1439, 2025 c 23 s 3", "summary": "Amends RCW 46.12.635(4), under which the Department releases vehicle and vessel owner records to attorneys and private investigators. When a request is granted, the notice sent to the owner now states the requester’s occupation, replacing the earlier process in which the owner had 5 days to ask the Department about the requester.", "forLicensees": "Owners whose records are released are told the request came from a private investigator.", "sources": [ { "label": "2025 c 23", "url": "https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1439-S.SL.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Ohio", "id": "hb-96", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/ohio#hb-96", "date": "2025-09-30", "title": "Nuclear plant security staff excluded from licensing", "type": "House Bill 96, 136th General Assembly", "summary": "The state budget amended ORC 4749.01 to exclude security personnel and contractors working under an approved physical protection program at a federally licensed commercial nuclear power plant from the licensing chapter.", "forLicensees": "No change for private investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "ORC 4749.01", "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4749.01" }, { "label": "HB 96", "url": "https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/hb96" } ] }, { "state": "Arizona", "id": "sb-1618", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arizona#sb-1618", "date": "2025-09-26", "title": "Agency licenses move to four-year terms", "type": "Senate Bill 1618, Laws 2025, Chapter 12", "summary": "Amends A.R.S. 32-2425(A) so agency licenses are issued for four years instead of two; employee registrations already run with the agency license. It deleted the sentence in 32-2407(B) that barred renewing a license or registration more than 90 days after expiration, while keeping the ban on working between expiration and renewal. It also lets DPS run periodic criminal history checks rather than only state checks (32-2423, 32-2442). The DPS rules were not updated to match: R13-2-101(4) still defines “delinquent” by the deleted grace period.", "forLicensees": "Agency licenses issued after the change run four years, and the statute no longer sets a 90-day limit on renewing after expiration.", "sources": [ { "label": "Laws 2025, Ch. 12", "url": "https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/laws/0012.htm" }, { "label": "A.R.S. 32-2407", "url": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/32/02407.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "sb-993", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#sb-993", "date": "2025-09-26", "title": "Booking photos may be released to licensed investigators", "type": "SB 993, Oregon Laws 2025 chapter 95", "summary": "Adds ORS 133.870(2)(h), allowing a law enforcement agency to release a booking photo to an investigator licensed under ORS 703.430. Release is permitted, not required.", "forLicensees": "An agency may, but need not, release a booking photo to a licensed investigator.", "sources": [ { "label": "2025 c.95", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2025orLaw0095.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Maine", "id": "pl-2025-c388", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maine#pl-2025-c388", "date": "2025-09-24", "title": "Concealed handgun permit fees increased", "type": "P.L. 2025, c. 388, Part VVV", "summary": "Raises the resident concealed handgun permit fee from $35 to $50 and the renewal from $20 to $35, and the nonresident fee from $60 to $80 (25 M.R.S. 2003).", "forLicensees": "Armed investigators need this permit (32 M.R.S. 8120-A).", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L. 2025, c. 388", "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/ros/LawsOfMaine/breeze/Law/getDocById/?docId=120510" } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "sb-805", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#sb-805", "date": "2025-09-20", "title": "Bail recovery role may not be used for immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant", "type": "Senate Bill 805, Chapter 126, Statutes of 2025", "summary": "Amends Penal Code 1299.07. Anyone authorized to apprehend bail fugitives under section 1299.02, which includes licensed private investigators who are also bail fugitive recovery agents, may not use that position for immigration enforcement, or disclose a bail fugitive’s personally identifiable information requested for immigration enforcement, except under a valid judicial warrant or court order.", "forLicensees": "Applies only to investigators who also do bail fugitive recovery.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 805", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB805" }, { "label": "Penal Code 1299.07", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=1299.07." } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "sb-160", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#sb-160", "date": "2025-09-17", "title": "Fingerprint background check routed through the Department of Justice", "type": "Senate Bill 160, Chapter 113, Statutes of 2025", "summary": "Adds section 7525.3. BSIS must require every PI license applicant and every qualified manager to undergo a fingerprint-based state and national criminal history check. Fingerprints of individual applicants, partners, corporate officers, LLC members and managers, and qualified managers go to the Department of Justice, which returns state and federal results.", "forLicensees": "No new step for applicants. Section 7525.1(e) already required fingerprints for an FBI background check; new section 7525.3 adds express authority for BSIS to get state and federal results through the Department of Justice.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 160", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB160" }, { "label": "Section 7525.3", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=7525.3." } ] }, { "state": "Michigan", "id": "hb-4888", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/michigan#hb-4888", "date": "2025-09-11", "title": "Collection agency exemption bill pending in committee", "type": "Bill, pending", "summary": "Would amend the Act’s list of exemptions (MCL 338.824) to revise its references to collection agencies. It takes effect only if House Bill 4887, which would change collection agency licensing under the Occupational Code, is also enacted. Both bills were referred to the House Committee on Regulatory Reform on September 11, 2025. No further action is recorded as of October 15, 2026.", "forLicensees": "Nothing has changed. The bill does not alter licensing, renewal, or bond requirements for professional investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 4888 status", "url": "https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2025-HB-4888" }, { "label": "Bill text", "url": "https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2025-2026/billintroduced/House/htm/2025-HIB-4888.htm" }, { "label": "HB 4887 status", "url": "https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2025-HB-4887" } ] }, { "state": "North Carolina", "id": "rules-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-carolina#rules-2025", "date": "2025-09-01", "title": "License number required in every advertisement", "type": "Final rule, new 14B NCAC 16 .0116 and .0117; amendments to .0103, .0105, .0501 to .0503, .0707, .1203, .1307, .1501, .1502", "summary": "New .0116 requires any advertisement of private protective services, in any medium, to include the licensee’s name and license number, even when a trade name is used. Before, Rule .0105 told licensees to include their license number only alongside the permitted statement “Licensed by the Private Protective Services Board of the State of North Carolina.” New .0117 sets a procedure to ask the Board for a declaratory ruling. The Board amended .1203 to remove the cap on continuing education credit for college courses, which now count at one hour per contact hour, up to all 12 hours.", "forLicensees": "Websites, business cards, and other advertising must show the licensee’s name and license number.", "sources": [ { "label": "NC Register 39:21", "url": "https://files.nc.gov/oah/documents/2025-05/Volume-39-Issue-21-May-1-2025.pdf" }, { "label": "NC Register 39:15", "url": "https://files.nc.gov/oah/documents/2025-02/Volume-39-Issue-15-February-3-2025.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Texas", "id": "hb-5629", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/texas#hb-5629", "date": "2025-09-01", "title": "Military applicants licensed under a “similar scope of practice” test", "type": "House Bill 5629, 89th Legislature", "summary": "Amends Occupations Code chapter 55, which applies to every state licensing agency, including DPS. An agency must license a military service member, veteran, or spouse who holds a current license in good standing from another state that is similar in scope of practice; the earlier test was “substantially equivalent” requirements. The agency must process the application within 10 business days, and application and exam fees are waived for service members, veterans, and spouses (55.009).", "forLicensees": "Military applicants with another state’s PI license have a faster path to a Texas license, without application or exam fees.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 5629", "url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HB5629" }, { "label": "Enrolled text", "url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB05629F.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Illinois", "id": "leosa", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/illinois#leosa", "date": "2025-09", "title": "LEOSA credentials valid for three years", "type": "Agency notice", "summary": "IDFPR states that LEOSA credentials issued in Illinois are now valid for three years from the date of last issuance. We found no matching amendment to 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1240.", "forLicensees": "Holders of the retired peace officer firearm control card waiver should note the validity period.", "sources": [ { "label": "IDFPR notice", "url": "https://idfpr.illinois.gov/profs/detective.html" } ] }, { "state": "Missouri", "id": "sb-71", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#sb-71", "date": "2025-08-28", "title": "State and FBI fingerprint check written into the statute", "type": "Senate Bill 71, 103rd General Assembly", "summary": "Enacted RSMo 324.1105 as part of a set of criminal background check provisions for many licensing boards. The board may require fingerprints from applicants for private investigator or private fire investigator licenses and from agency employees. If it does, the prints go to the Missouri State Highway Patrol for a state check and on to the FBI for a federal check, and the board gets access to the results.", "forLicensees": "Little changes in practice. The rules already required fingerprint submission through the Highway Patrol’s approved vendor for applicants and agency employees.", "sources": [ { "label": "RSMo 324.1105", "url": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=324.1105" }, { "label": "SB 71 status", "url": "https://www.senate.mo.gov/BillTracking/Bills/BillInformation?year=2025&billid=522" }, { "label": "Truly agreed text", "url": "https://www.senate.mo.gov/25info/pdf-bill/tat/SB71.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Utah", "id": "r708-36", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/utah#r708-36", "date": "2025-08-21", "title": "Motor vehicle record rule reenacted; investigator-only address display kept", "type": "R708-36, Filing ID 57312", "summary": "Repeals and reenacts the motor vehicle record rule without changing the existing process: the Driver License Division still displays a record subject’s address only on motor vehicle records released to licensed private investigators, with exceptions for permitted uses under the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (R708-36-4(2)).", "forLicensees": "Have your license number ready when ordering records.", "sources": [ { "label": "Utah State Bulletin", "url": "https://rules.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/b20250715.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "West Virginia", "id": "jackson-whitepages", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/west-virginia#jackson-whitepages", "date": "2025-08-19", "title": "Federal court holds Daniel’s Law private-disclosure ban unconstitutional", "type": "Jackson v. Whitepages, Inc., No. 1:24-cv-80 (N.D. W. Va.)", "summary": "Held facially unconstitutional under the First Amendment W. Va. Code 5A-8-24(e), which bars any person or business from disclosing, without permission, the home address or unpublished phone number of current or former judicial officers, prosecutors, public defenders, and law enforcement officers where a reasonable person would believe it would expose them to harassment or risk of harm. The opinion distinguished the separate notice-and-removal provision in 5A-8-24(h). Section 5A-8-24(e) remains in the code. An appeal in the consolidated cases (No. 25-2121) was argued in the Fourth Circuit on September 15, 2026; no opinion had been posted as of October 18, 2026.", "forLicensees": "The ruling did not address the takedown-request provision in 5A-8-24(h).", "sources": [ { "label": "Opinion", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-wvnd-1_24-cv-00080/pdf/USCOURTS-wvnd-1_24-cv-00080-0.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Alabama", "id": "fee-schedule-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alabama#fee-schedule-2025", "date": "2025-08-14", "title": "Fees added for agencies, apprentices, and inactive status", "type": "Final rule, Appendix 741-X-A1-1", "summary": "Adds an agency fee of $50 (2 or fewer investigators) or $200 (3 or more) per two-year renewal; apprentice application $50, license $100, and yearly renewal $100; a one-time sponsor fee of $50; a $25 inactive fee and $200 reinstatement; and a $25 change or replacement fee. Individual license fees did not change from the 2017 schedule.", "forLicensees": "Individual license, renewal, and late fees are unchanged.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rule filing", "url": "https://admincode.legislature.state.al.us/api/filing/673670b6756d8cacd1c2ed0b/filing" } ] }, { "state": "Arkansas", "id": "act-678", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arkansas#act-678", "date": "2025-08-05", "title": "Licensing act amended; ID cards issued electronically", "type": "Act 678 of 2025 (HB 1692)", "summary": "Removes crimes involving moral turpitude from what applications must disclose (17-40-307(a)(8)); revises the grounds to deny, suspend, or revoke (17-40-344, 17-40-350(c)(1)); and allows commission ID cards to be electronic (17-40-340). The State Police says that from August 5, 2025 all ID cards are sent by email.", "forLicensees": "Expect electronic ID cards by email.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 678", "url": "https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT678.pdf" }, { "label": "Amended chapter (State Police)", "url": "https://media.ark.org/dps/Act-393-Revised-8-5-2025.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Arkansas", "id": "act-581", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arkansas#act-581", "date": "2025-08-05", "title": "Driver and vehicle registration records closed to general inspection", "type": "Act 581 of 2025 (SB 498)", "summary": "Repeals A.C.A. 27-19-406 and 27-19-407, which opened driver records to public inspection, and rewrites 27-14-412 and 27-50-906. Registration records go only to the owner, a person the owner authorizes in writing, courts, a licensed attorney responding to a subpoena, and government or law enforcement agencies. Driver records go only to the driver, a person with the driver’s written authorization, courts, attorneys with a subpoena, employers with the driver’s written consent, insurers, and government or law enforcement agencies.", "forLicensees": "Investigators are not a listed recipient of individual records; you need the subject’s written authorization or one of the listed channels. Bulk registration lists remain limited to uses the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act allows.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 581", "url": "https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT581.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Arkansas", "id": "act-600", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arkansas#act-600", "date": "2025-08-05", "title": "Tracking a person with a tracking device without consent is harassment", "type": "Act 600 of 2025 (HB 1641)", "summary": "A person commits harassment if, with the purpose of tracking a person and without good cause or legal authority, the person uses a tracking device to determine that person’s location or movement without the person’s consent (A.C.A. 5-71-208(a)(2)(A)). A parent or legal guardian tracking a minor is excepted.", "forLicensees": "The law has no exception for licensed investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 600", "url": "https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT600.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Arkansas", "id": "act-597", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arkansas#act-597", "date": "2025-08-05", "title": "Drone surveillance of people or private property", "type": "Act 597 of 2025 (HB 1148), Arkansas Privacy Act", "summary": "Purposely using an unmanned aircraft to capture an image of an individual or private property to conduct surveillance on them is a Class C misdemeanor (A.C.A. 5-60-103(e)), and possessing or disclosing such an image is a separate offense (5-60-126). Owners and tenants may sue for $5,000 per capture episode and $10,000 per disclosure episode (16-118-119). Listed lawful captures include those with the consent of the owner or lawful occupant and real-property images an insurer’s employee captures for underwriting or claims (27-118-101). The definition of unmanned aircraft system excludes one operated for a commercial purpose in compliance with FAA regulations, authorizations, or exemptions (5-60-103(a)(3)(B)(iv)).", "forLicensees": "No exception names investigators, and no court has decided whether the commercial FAA exclusion covers an investigator’s compliant flight.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 597", "url": "https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT597.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Arkansas", "id": "act-668", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arkansas#act-668", "date": "2025-08-05", "title": "Private license plate readers allowed on owners’ own property", "type": "Act 668 of 2025 (SB 446)", "summary": "Allows a private landowner, leaseholder, or commercial business to use automatic license plate readers to monitor its own property (A.C.A. 12-12-1803(b)(4)). Private users may keep plate data no more than 60 days and may not sell, trade, or exchange it for a commercial purpose (12-12-1804).", "forLicensees": "Investigators are not an authorized user, and private plate data may not be sold commercially.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 668", "url": "https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT668.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Arkansas", "id": "act-832", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arkansas#act-832", "date": "2025-08-05", "title": "Stalking law expanded to sexual-contact threats and electronic messages", "type": "Act 832 of 2025 (HB 1778)", "summary": "Adds to second-degree stalking the purpose of placing a person, or a family or household member, in imminent fear of unwanted sexual contact (A.C.A. 5-71-229(b)(1)), and provides that a course of conduct includes sending mail or electronic messages, including email, texts, and social media (5-71-229(f)(1)(B)). The existing definition already covered acts in which the actor “directly, indirectly, or through a third party” follows, monitors, observes, or places a person under surveillance.", "forLicensees": "Surveillance through a third party was already part of the definition; screen clients and document a lawful purpose.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 832", "url": "https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT832.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Arkansas", "id": "act-765", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arkansas#act-765", "date": "2025-08-05", "title": "Video voyeurism: prosecution allowed within a year of discovery", "type": "Act 765 of 2025 (SB 555)", "summary": "Allows prosecution for video voyeurism (A.C.A. 5-16-101) even after the regular limitations period has expired, within one year after the victim discovers or should have discovered the offense (5-1-109(c)(3)), and provides that a romantic relationship with the person recorded is not a defense (5-16-101(e)).", "forLicensees": "Exposure for unlawful covert video can extend to a year after the victim discovers it, even after the regular limitations period has run.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 765", "url": "https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FACT765.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Louisiana", "id": "act-225-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/louisiana#act-225-2025", "date": "2025-08-01", "title": "Tracking device exceptions withdrawn in protective order cases", "type": "Act No. 225 (HB 74), 2025 Regular Session", "summary": "Adds La. R.S. 14:323(E): the exceptions in Subsection C, including vehicle owner consent, do not apply when an individual with an ownership interest has been granted a protective order (R.S. 46:2136) or temporary restraining order (R.S. 46:2135), or when a court has granted another individual exclusive use of the vehicle. The law has no exception for licensed private investigators, before or after the Act.", "forLicensees": "An owner’s consent no longer authorizes tracking in the situations in subsection E.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 74", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=25RS&b=HB74" }, { "label": "La. R.S. 14:323", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78422" } ] }, { "state": "Louisiana", "id": "act-140-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/louisiana#act-140-2025", "date": "2025-08-01", "title": "Cellular tracking devices need a court order", "type": "Act No. 140 (HB 100), 2025 Regular Session", "summary": "Adds cellular tracking devices to La. R.S. 15:1313(A), under which no person may install or use a pen register, trap and trace device, or cellular tracking device without a court order under R.S. 15:1315 or 1318. It also sets penalties and court-order rules for bail enforcement agents, who hold bail bond producer licenses and are not licensed by the Board.", "forLicensees": "The ban applies to every person, including investigators; only a court order under R.S. 15:1315 or 1318 authorizes a cellular tracking device.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 100", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=25RS&b=HB100" }, { "label": "Act 140", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425040" } ] }, { "state": "North Dakota", "id": "hb-1429", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-dakota#hb-1429", "date": "2025-08-01", "title": "Stalking and harassment by robot, including drones", "type": "HB 1429, 2025 S.L. ch. 126", "summary": "Defines a robot to include remotely piloted aircraft, adds acts conducted with a robot to the stalking course of conduct, and adds robots to the tracking prong of stalking alongside the existing global positioning and electronic means (N.D.C.C. 12.1-17-07.1). The defense for an investigator licensed under chapter 43-30 acting within the scope of employment (12.1-17-07.1(4)) was not changed.", "forLicensees": "For investigators, the stalking defense applies only to those licensed under chapter 43-30 acting within the scope of employment; the harassment statute (12.1-17-07), including its new robot prong, has no such defense.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 1429", "url": "https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/bill-overview/bo1429.html" } ] }, { "state": "Delaware", "id": "hb-153", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/delaware#hb-153", "date": "2025-07-14", "title": "No arrest or detention without statutory authority", "type": "HB 153, 85 Del. Laws c. 74", "summary": "Adds 11 Del. C. 1914, which prohibits arrest or detention by anyone not specifically authorized by statute, except that a private citizen may assist a peace officer on request or when the officer is incapacitated. Repeals 11 Del. C. 6563 and 6564, which addressed custody of persons arrested by private detectives. The sponsors’ synopsis says private investigators already had no arrest authority in Delaware.", "forLicensees": "Investigators have no arrest or detention power unless a statute grants it.", "sources": [ { "label": "85 Del. Laws c. 74", "url": "https://delcode.delaware.gov/sessionlaws/ga153/chp074.shtml" }, { "label": "HB 153", "url": "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142166" } ] }, { "state": "Delaware", "id": "hb-142", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/delaware#hb-142", "date": "2025-07-14", "title": "Private persons may no longer arrest out-of-state fugitives without a warrant", "type": "HB 142, 85 Del. Laws c. 72", "summary": "Amends 11 Del. C. 2514 so only a peace officer, not a private person, may arrest without a warrant a person charged in another state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for more than 1 year.", "forLicensees": "Locate fugitives, but leave the arrest to a peace officer.", "sources": [ { "label": "85 Del. Laws c. 72", "url": "https://delcode.delaware.gov/sessionlaws/ga153/chp072.shtml" } ] }, { "state": "Colorado", "id": "hb24-1130", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/colorado#hb24-1130", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Biometric identifier rules apply regardless of size", "type": "HB 24-1130 (C.R.S. 6-1-1314)", "summary": "Requires notice and consent before collecting biometric identifiers and a written retention policy, and covers any controller that processes biometric data regardless of the Privacy Act’s consumer thresholds.", "forLicensees": "Firms using facial recognition or voiceprints on Colorado residents must comply.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 24-1130", "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1130" } ] }, { "state": "Colorado", "id": "hb24-1133", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/colorado#hb24-1133", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Record sealing expanded", "type": "HB 24-1133", "summary": "Makes deferred judgments eligible for sealing when the underlying offense is, creates sealing for convictions for conduct later legalized, and lets a mistaken-identity defendant petition for expungement.", "forLicensees": "More Colorado records may be unavailable to background searches.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 24-1133", "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1133" } ] }, { "state": "Colorado", "id": "hb24-1174", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/colorado#hb24-1174", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Concealed handgun permit training standards", "type": "HB 24-1174", "summary": "A training class counts toward a permit only if it meets new in-person minimum standards, with a written exam and live fire, and was completed within 1 year before applying (C.R.S. 18-12-202.5, -202.7).", "forLicensees": "New applicants need a qualifying class taken within 12 months.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 24-1174", "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1174" } ] }, { "state": "Florida", "id": "ch-2025-81", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/florida#ch-2025-81", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Court-ordered tracking exempted from the tracking law", "type": "CS/CS/HB 903, Chapter 2025-81, Laws of Florida (section 7)", "summary": "Adds exceptions to s. 934.425(4) for Department of Corrections and Department of Juvenile Justice staff tracking people in their custody, and for anyone a court order authorizes to install, place, or use a tracking device or application. The business purpose exception, which does not cover private investigation done for someone else unless the activity would be exempt if the client did it, is unchanged.", "forLicensees": "Tracking authorized by a court order falls outside s. 934.425.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 2025-81", "url": "https://laws.flrules.org/2025/81" }, { "label": "Section 934.425", "url": "http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0900-0999/0934/Sections/0934.425.html" } ] }, { "state": "Hawaii", "id": "act-159-2023", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/hawaii#act-159-2023", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Expunged cases removed from the Judiciary’s public databases", "type": "Act 159, SLH 2023 (SB 410)", "summary": "Requires the courts to seal or remove from the Judiciary’s publicly accessible databases information about the arrest or case of a person whose expungement order has been sent to the court.", "forLicensees": "Expunged matters should drop out of the Judiciary’s online court databases within a reasonable time after the expungement order reaches the court.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 410 (2023)", "url": "https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=410&year=2023" } ] }, { "state": "Idaho", "id": "s-1180", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/idaho#s-1180", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Government license plate reader data limited to law enforcement", "type": "S 1180 (2025), ch. 316 (Idaho Code 49-1432)", "summary": "Limits government use of automated license plate readers to law enforcement and traffic analysis and bars use of the data for any non-law-enforcement purpose. The section does not regulate private systems.", "forLicensees": "Government plate reader data is not available for private investigations.", "sources": [ { "label": "S 1180", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2025/legislation/S1180/" } ] }, { "state": "Idaho", "id": "h-253", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/idaho#h-253", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Non-resident records requests: residency declaration, longer deadlines, separate fees", "type": "H 253 (2025), ch. 298 (Idaho Code 74-101 to 74-103)", "summary": "Every public records request must include the requester’s contact details and a sworn statement of whether the requester is an Idaho resident, meaning domiciled in Idaho for at least 30 days (74-101(15), 74-102(4)). Agencies must grant or deny a resident’s request within 3 working days and a non-resident’s within 21 days, and when more time is needed must produce records within 10 working days for residents and 35 days for non-residents (74-103(2)). The free first 2 hours and first 100 pages apply only to residents, and agencies may set separate fees for non-residents (74-102(10)).", "forLicensees": "Out-of-state requesters should expect longer waits and higher fees.", "sources": [ { "label": "H 253", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2025/legislation/H0253/" }, { "label": "Idaho Code 74-103", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title74/t74ch1/sect74-103/" } ] }, { "state": "Kansas", "id": "sb-186", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/kansas#sb-186", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Intimate image crime covers AI-altered images", "type": "SB 186 (2025), L. 2025, ch. 120", "summary": "Disseminating a nude or sexual image of an identifiable adult with intent to harass, threaten, or intimidate now includes images created or altered by artificial intelligence or other digital means (K.S.A. 21-6101(a)(8)).", "forLicensees": "Digitally altered images are covered.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 186", "url": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_186/sb186_enrolled.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Kansas", "id": "hb-2134", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/kansas#hb-2134", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Open records fees limited; closed civil and administrative investigations exempt", "type": "HB 2134 (2025), L. 2025, ch. 89", "summary": "Limits what agencies may charge to furnish public records (K.S.A. 45-219) and exempts records of formally closed civil or administrative investigations in which no violation was found (45-221(a)(11)(C)).", "forLicensees": "Records requests should cost less, but closed civil or administrative investigations with no findings are exempt.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 2134", "url": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/HB2134/" } ] }, { "state": "Mississippi", "id": "hb-1338", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/mississippi#hb-1338", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Impersonating a law enforcement officer becomes a felony", "type": "HB 1338 (2025)", "summary": "Adds Miss. Code 97-7-44(2): willfully assuming or pretending to be a law enforcement officer is a felony punishable by up to $5,000, up to 3 years, or both. Impersonating any other state, county, or municipal officer or employee remains a misdemeanor under 97-7-44(1).", "forLicensees": "Pretexts may never involve posing as an officer or other public official.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 1338", "url": "https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1338SG.htm" } ] }, { "state": "New Mexico", "id": "sb-36", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-mexico#sb-36", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "MVD data barred for most immigration enforcement", "type": "SB 36 (2025), Laws 2025, ch. 138", "summary": "Bars disclosure of MVD personal information for enforcing the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, other than its felony criminal provisions, and requires nongovernmental entities with MVD data access to certify they will not use it for that purpose (NMSA 66-2-7.1). The permitted uses of MVD personal information otherwise remain those already listed in the statute.", "forLicensees": "Vendors and investigators with MVD access must make the certification.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 36", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0036.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "North Dakota", "id": "hb-1045", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-dakota#hb-1045", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Fees for online apprentice courses and nonlicensed agency owners", "type": "HB 1045, 2025 S.L. ch. 398", "summary": "Adds fees of up to $60 for online apprentice security officer courses and up to $60 a year, with a late fee up to $20 a month, for nonlicensed officers and owners of at least 10% of an agency (N.D.C.C. 43-30-16).", "forLicensees": "Individual investigator fees are not affected.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 1045", "url": "https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/bill-overview/bo1045.html" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "hb-5033", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#hb-5033", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Legislature approves the $690 license fee", "type": "HB 5033, Oregon Laws 2025 chapter 404", "summary": "Approves the investigator license fee of $690 and late renewal fee of $35 that DPSST put into effect on February 1, 2025.", "forLicensees": "The February 2025 fee levels were ratified by statute.", "sources": [ { "label": "2025 c.404", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2025orLaw0404.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "South Dakota", "id": "sb-5", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#sb-5", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Sheriff’s service fee charged whether or not service is completed", "type": "SB 5 (2025), SL 2025 ch 35", "summary": "Lets the sheriff charge up to $50 for process submitted for service whether or not service is completed (SDCL 7-12-18(2)).", "forLicensees": "Private service may compete better on hard-to-serve defendants.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 5", "url": "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25635" } ] }, { "state": "Tennessee", "id": "pc-524", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/tennessee#pc-524", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Programs may sign reciprocal licensing agreements", "type": "2025 Public Chapter 524, section 54", "summary": "Lets a regulatory authority in the department’s Division of Regulatory Boards, which includes commissioner-run programs, enter reciprocal agreements with other jurisdictions to license people licensed there who have sufficient qualifications.", "forLicensees": "The program now has express statutory authority to enter reciprocity agreements with other states.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Chapter 524", "url": "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/114/pub/pc0524.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Wyoming", "id": "hb-172", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/wyoming#hb-172", "date": "2025-07-01", "title": "Gun-free zones repealed", "type": "HB 172 (2025), ch. 61", "summary": "Allows lawful concealed carriers, including permitless carriers, in government meetings, the legislature, non-secured airport areas, and public buildings, and limits carry at public schools and colleges to permit holders (W.S. 6-8-105).", "forLicensees": "A permit is still needed for school and campus carry.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 172", "url": "https://wyoleg.gov/2025/Enroll/HB0172.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Louisiana", "id": "act-139-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/louisiana#act-139-2025", "date": "2025-06-08", "title": "No deference to agency interpretations in hearings and courts", "type": "Act No. 139 (HB 99), 2025 Regular Session", "summary": "Adds La. R.S. 49:978.1(H): courts, administrative law judges, and hearing officers may not defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute or rule, and review is de novo. It applies to Board hearings under the Administrative Procedure Act.", "forLicensees": "In a disciplinary or licensing hearing, the Board’s reading of the law gets no deference.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 139", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425038" }, { "label": "Résumé digest", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1430041" } ] }, { "state": "South Carolina", "id": "act-36-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-carolina#act-36-2025", "date": "2025-05-12", "title": "School security amendments; investigator provisions unchanged", "type": "Act No. 36 of 2025 (S.269)", "summary": "Lets public school districts use armed security personnel if the district obtains a proprietary security license, adds security officer rules for schools (40-18-60(A)(3), 40-18-80(A)(3)), and removes school districts from the government-employee exception in 40-18-140(1). It did not amend 40-18-70 or 40-18-80(B) to (D), the investigator license and registration provisions.", "forLicensees": "No investigator license, registration, fee, or continuing education requirement changed.", "sources": [ { "label": "S.269", "url": "https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/269.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "hb-563", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#hb-563", "date": "2025-05-08", "title": "Contract clauses barring licensing complaints void", "type": "HB 563, Ch. 490, L. 2025", "summary": "A contract provision that bars or discourages filing a licensing complaint is void, and being party to one or retaliating against a complainant is unprofessional conduct (MCA 37-1-149).", "forLicensees": "Remove such language from client and employment agreements.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 563", "url": "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0216" } ] }, { "state": "Utah", "id": "sb-303", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/utah#sb-303", "date": "2025-05-07", "title": "Continuing education requirement enacted", "type": "S.B. 303 (2025), Laws of Utah 2025, ch. 359", "summary": "Required 16 hours of continuing education for renewals beginning May 7, 2027, and changed ID card and notice provisions in the former Title 53, Chapter 9. S.B. 149 repealed that chapter in 2026 and carried a 16-hour requirement into 58-92-309.", "forLicensees": "The current requirement is in 58-92-309.", "sources": [ { "label": "S.B. 303", "url": "https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0303.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Utah", "id": "hb-21", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/utah#hb-21", "date": "2025-05-07", "title": "Tracking-device offense renumbered", "type": "H.B. 21 (2025), Laws of Utah 2025, ch. 173", "summary": "Moved the tracking-device offense and its investigator exception from Utah Code 76-9-408 to 76-12-305 as part of the criminal code recodification.", "forLicensees": "Cite 76-12-305.", "sources": [ { "label": "H.B. 21", "url": "https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0021.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Kansas", "id": "hb-2342", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/kansas#hb-2342", "date": "2025-05-01", "title": "Juvenile records released to the Attorney General for applicant screening", "type": "HB 2342 (2025), L. 2025, ch. 98", "summary": "Requires the KBI to release juvenile adjudications, diversions, and expunged juvenile records, in addition to adult records, to the Attorney General for detective license, firearm permit, and firearm trainer applicants (K.S.A. 22-4714(b)(1)), and adds firearm permit applicants to the Act’s definition of applicant (75-7b01(a)).", "forLicensees": "Juvenile and expunged juvenile records are now part of the Attorney General’s review.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 2342", "url": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/HB2342/" } ] }, { "state": "North Dakota", "id": "sb-2051", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-dakota#sb-2051", "date": "2025-04-22", "title": "Board fees raised and fixed in statute", "type": "SB 2051, 2025 S.L. ch. 399", "summary": "Replaces the statutory fee caps, under which the Board set fees by rule, with fixed amounts (N.D.C.C. 43-30-16): individual license or renewal from up to $150 to $225, with a late fee of $75 a month; exam from up to $100 to $150; agency license from up to $300 to $450; registration from up to $30 to $45; armed certificate from up to $30 to $45. Also directs the State Auditor to audit the Board.", "forLicensees": "The Board’s fee rule (NDAC 93-02-03-06) still lists the old amounts; the statute controls.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 2051", "url": "https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/bill-overview/bo2051.html" } ] }, { "state": "Ohio", "id": "hb-238", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/ohio#hb-238", "date": "2025-04-09", "title": "Licenses extended to two years; fee caps changed; commission abolished", "type": "House Bill 238, 135th General Assembly", "summary": "Amends ORC 4749.03. Licenses now last two years instead of one. The cap on the initial license fee drops from $375 to $200, and the cap on the renewal fee changes from $275 a year to $550 for two years. The same act abolished the Ohio Private Investigation and Security Services Commission, effective December 31, 2024, and repealed ORC 4749.021.", "forLicensees": "Renew every two years instead of every year. Licenses issued before April 9, 2025 keep their March 1 expiration date and then renew on a two-year cycle.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 238", "url": "https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/135/hb238" }, { "label": "LSC final analysis", "url": "https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/download?key=24470" } ] }, { "state": "Indiana", "id": "lsa-24-610", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/indiana#lsa-24-610", "date": "2025-04-03", "title": "Fines and civil penalties schedule", "type": "Final rule", "summary": "Adds 874 IAC 2-1-2. Board fines default to half the statutory maximum, or $1,000 where no maximum is set, with a $100 minimum, adjusted by listed factors such as self-disclosure and remediation, or dishonesty and a pattern of misconduct.", "forLicensees": "Fines are more predictable, and cooperation and voluntary disclosure count in your favor.", "sources": [ { "label": "Final rule", "url": "https://iar.iga.in.gov/register/20250430-IR-874240610FRA" }, { "label": "Rulemaking docket", "url": "https://www.in.gov/pla/rulesingov/lsa-document-24-610-private-investigator-and-security-guard-fines-and-civil-penalties" } ] }, { "state": "Arizona", "id": "r13-2-303", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arizona#r13-2-303", "date": "2025-04-01", "title": "Rule on registration certificate renewals expired", "type": "Notice of expiration, A.A.C. R13-2-303 (31 A.A.R. 1283)", "summary": "R13-2-303 (Renewal of Registration Certificate), which had the agency licensee submit associate and employee registration renewals up to 60 days before expiration, and allowed those renewals only as part of an agency license renewal, expired under A.R.S. 41-1056(J). It was the only change to the private investigator rules, A.A.C. Title 13, Chapter 2, from 2023 through October 2026.", "forLicensees": "R13-2-204(A) still lets a qualifying party submit an agency renewal up to 60 days before expiration, but DPS’s page says it accepts renewals up to 180 days before expiration and returns earlier ones.", "sources": [ { "label": "A.A.C. 13-2", "url": "https://apps.azsos.gov/public_services/Title_13/13-02.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Louisiana", "id": "eo-jml-25-38", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/louisiana#eo-jml-25-38", "date": "2025-04-01", "title": "Executive order puts most Board rules up for review", "type": "Executive Order JML 25-38 (LR 51:494)", "summary": "Requires each agency to review at least 50% of its rules listed in Exhibit A, or a minimum of 100 rules, whichever is greater, by December 31, 2025, and the remaining rules by December 31, 2026, and to report the results. Exhibit A lists 46 of the Board’s 51 rule sections in LAC 46:LVII, 33 of them last revised in 1993. No Board notice of intent has appeared in the Louisiana Register through October 2026.", "forLicensees": "No proposed Board rule had been published as of October 2026.", "sources": [ { "label": "Louisiana Register, April 2025", "url": "https://www.doa.la.gov/media/aqifjzos/2504.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Ohio", "id": "sb-100", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/ohio#sb-100", "date": "2025-03-20", "title": "New tracking device crime, with a limited exemption for licensed investigators", "type": "Senate Bill 100, 135th General Assembly", "summary": "Enacted ORC 2903.216, which makes it a crime to knowingly install a tracking device or tracking app on another person’s property without consent. A licensed private investigator acting in the normal course of business is exempt only with the consent of the property owner and only for listed purposes: criminal matters, locating fugitives, locating lost or stolen property or court-awarded assets, and workers’ compensation claims. The exemption does not apply if the client is the subject of a protection order or if the investigator knows or should know the client wants help committing a crime. A violation is generally a first-degree misdemeanor; some are a fourth-degree felony.", "forLicensees": "Do not place a GPS tracker without the property owner’s consent. Screen clients for protection orders before any tracking work.", "sources": [ { "label": "ORC 2903.216", "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2903.216" }, { "label": "SB 100", "url": "https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/135/sb100" } ] }, { "state": "Alabama", "id": "rules-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alabama#rules-2025", "date": "2025-03-17", "title": "Rules for apprentices, sponsors, and inactive status", "type": "Final rules, 741-X-4-.01.01, -.01.02, 741-X-4-.03(9), 741-X-2-.01", "summary": "New rules require apprentices to complete 40 classroom hours and 260 field hours to qualify for licensure, and let a licensed investigator with 2 years of experience be certified as a sponsor of up to five apprentices at a time. A licensee may request inactive status in writing; inactive licensees may not work as investigators and must keep completing continuing education.", "forLicensees": "A license can be placed on inactive status, but continuing education still applies.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 741-X-4", "url": "https://admincode.legislature.state.al.us/api/chapter/741-X-4" } ] }, { "state": "Florida", "id": "r-5n-1-150", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/florida#r-5n-1-150", "date": "2025-03-10", "title": "Tax collectors limited to security officer applications", "type": "Final rule, r. 5N-1.150 (new)", "summary": "Carries out s. 493.6127. Appointed county tax collectors may accept new applications only for Class D security officer licenses. They may take fingerprints and photographs for applicants for any license type who applied online or by mail.", "forLicensees": "Tax collectors cannot take a new Class C application, but an appointed office can take fingerprints and photos for an online or mailed application.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rule 5N-1.150", "url": "https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?id=5N-1.150" }, { "label": "Notice of proposed rule", "url": "https://www.flrules.org/Gateway/View_notice.asp?id=29068589" } ] }, { "state": "Wyoming", "id": "sf-132", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/wyoming#sf-132", "date": "2025-03-05", "title": "Drone photography of critical infrastructure made a crime", "type": "SF 132 (2025), ch. 112", "summary": "Bars operating a drone over or near critical infrastructure, including utilities, rail lines, courts, public safety buildings, and hospitals that receive air ambulance services, to intentionally photograph it or loiter (W.S. 19-13-503). Operators whose use complies with FAA authorization or rules are exempt. A first offense is a misdemeanor and a repeat offense a felony.", "forLicensees": "Fly only in compliance with FAA rules near such sites.", "sources": [ { "label": "SF 132", "url": "https://wyoleg.gov/2025/Enroll/SF0132.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Alabama", "id": "florida-agreement", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alabama#florida-agreement", "date": "2025-02-18", "title": "Limited license recognition agreement with Florida", "type": "Board agreement with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (Division of Licensing)", "summary": "An Alabama resident licensed by the Board, or a Florida resident licensed by Florida, may work a case that originated in their home state in the other state for up to 30 days per agency per case per year, if in good standing and affiliated with a licensed agency. The exemption does not allow soliciting business or carrying firearms there, and anyone whose license was suspended or revoked in any state is ineligible for 10 years.", "forLicensees": "The exemption applies only to residents licensed in their home state and working a home-state case.", "sources": [ { "label": "Agreement", "url": "https://apib.alabama.gov/PDF/2025/LtdLicRecognitionAgreementFlorida.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Delaware", "id": "hb-357", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/delaware#hb-357", "date": "2025-02-01", "title": "Projectile weapons added to the licensing law’s weapon rules", "type": "HB 357, 84 Del. Laws c. 525", "summary": "Defines projectile weapon (24 Del. C. 1302) and extends the chapter’s firearm certification, documentation, security guard carry, and discipline provisions to projectile weapons (1321, 1329); 1321(b) already required Board approval and training to carry any weapon.", "forLicensees": "As before, carrying any weapon, including a projectile weapon, requires Board approval and approved training (1321(b)).", "sources": [ { "label": "84 Del. Laws c. 525", "url": "https://delcode.delaware.gov/sessionlaws/ga152/chp525.shtml" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "dpsst-2-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#dpsst-2-2025", "date": "2025-02-01", "title": "License fee raised from $550 to $690", "type": "Final rule, DPSST 2-2025 (OAR 259-061-0010)", "summary": "Raised the private and provisional investigator license fee from $550 to $690 and the late renewal fee from $30 to $35.", "forLicensees": "These fees were replaced on September 1, 2026.", "sources": [ { "label": "DPSST 2-2025", "url": "https://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSCMSearch/Search/RecordViewer.aspx?uri=10791138" } ] }, { "state": "New Jersey", "id": "pl-2023-c266", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-jersey#pl-2023-c266", "date": "2025-01-15", "title": "Consumer data privacy law takes effect", "type": "P.L.2023, c.266 (S332)", "summary": "Applies to businesses that control or process the personal data of at least 100,000 New Jersey consumers a year, or at least 25,000 while earning revenue or discounts from selling personal data (N.J.S.A. 56:8-166.5). It does not restrict complying with government investigations or subpoenas, or investigating, establishing, exercising, preparing for, or defending legal claims (56:8-166.15(a)). The Attorney General enforces it; there is no private right of action. None of the exemptions names private detectives.", "forLicensees": "An agency is covered only if it meets one of the consumer thresholds.", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L.2023, c.266", "url": "https://pub.njleg.gov/Bills/2022/PL23/266_.HTM" } ] }, { "state": "Missouri", "id": "mopro", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#mopro", "date": "2025-01-14", "title": "Online licensing system opens", "type": "Agency notice", "summary": "The board’s page directs licensees to register for an account in the Division of Professional Registration’s MOPRO system, which handles license applications, renewals and account changes online.", "forLicensees": "Set up a MOPRO account before your next renewal.", "sources": [ { "label": "Board notice", "url": "https://pr.mo.gov/pi.asp" } ] }, { "state": "Alaska", "id": "hb-66", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alaska#hb-66", "date": "2025-01-01", "title": "First-degree stalking covers violating sexual assault and stalking protective orders", "type": "HB 66 (2024), ch. 11 SLA 24", "summary": "Makes stalking first-degree when it violates a sexual assault or stalking protective order under AS 18.65.850-.870, in addition to domestic violence orders (AS 11.41.260(a)(1)).", "forLicensees": "Check for protective orders before surveilling a subject.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 66", "url": "https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/33/Bills/HB0066Z.PDF" } ] }, { "state": "Colorado", "id": "hb24-1348", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/colorado#hb24-1348", "date": "2025-01-01", "title": "Firearms in unattended vehicles must be locked away", "type": "HB 24-1348 (C.R.S. 18-12-114.5)", "summary": "A handgun left in an unattended vehicle must be in a locked hard-sided container, out of plain view, in a locked vehicle.", "forLicensees": "This applies to surveillance vehicles.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 24-1348", "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1348" } ] }, { "state": "Delaware", "id": "dpdpa", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/delaware#dpdpa", "date": "2025-01-01", "title": "Personal Data Privacy Act takes effect", "type": "HB 154, 84 Del. Laws c. 197 (6 Del. C. ch. 12D)", "summary": "Gives consumers rights to access, correct, delete, and opt out of the sale of personal data held by businesses that control or process data of at least 35,000 consumers, or at least 10,000 while deriving over 20% of gross revenue from selling personal data. HB 380 (85 Del. Laws c. 463) lowers those thresholds to 10,000 and 5,000 consumers and covers third parties that acquire personal data, effective January 1, 2027.", "forLicensees": "Firms and data vendors over the thresholds must honor consumer requests.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 154", "url": "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140388" }, { "label": "HB 380", "url": "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=143105" } ] }, { "state": "Georgia", "id": "hb-880", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/georgia#hb-880", "date": "2025-01-01", "title": "Military spouses may work while an endorsement application is pending", "type": "House Bill 880, Act 485 (2024)", "summary": "Amends O.C.G.A. 43-1-34 and 43-1-35(b) and (e). The spouse of a service member stationed in Georgia who holds a current license in good standing from another state may practice without a Georgia license while an expedited license-by-endorsement application is pending, if hired by a Georgia employer that first verifies the license and the filing. It also cut the deadline to issue a military spouse’s expedited endorsement license from 90 days to 30, and lets the spouse keep working if no license issues within 30 days. The act applies to every Title 43 board, including this one.", "forLicensees": "A military spouse licensed elsewhere can start work for a Georgia employer while the application is processed.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 880", "url": "https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/65964" } ] }, { "state": "Maryland", "id": "msp-portal-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maryland#msp-portal-2025", "date": "2025-01-01", "title": "Licensing moves to the State Police electronic portal", "type": "State Police Licensing Division notice", "summary": "The State Police say that in January 2025 all professional licensing applications and fees moved from paper to its electronic Licensing Portal. Agency applicants upload a fingerprint receipt, a photo, and, if they will employ 5 or more detectives, proof of liability insurance.", "forLicensees": "Agency and certification applications and fees are submitted through the Licensing Portal.", "sources": [ { "label": "State Police agency license page", "url": "https://mdsp.maryland.gov/firearms-permits-professional-licenses/professional-licenses/private-detective-agency-license" } ] }, { "state": "New Hampshire", "id": "sb-255", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-hampshire#sb-255", "date": "2025-01-01", "title": "Consumer data privacy law takes effect", "type": "SB 255 (2024), Laws 2024, ch. 5, amended by HB 1220, ch. 229 (RSA 507-H)", "summary": "Gives consumers rights to access, correct, delete, and opt out of the sale of personal data held by businesses that process data of at least 35,000 New Hampshire consumers, or at least 10,000 while deriving over 25% of revenue from selling personal data (RSA 507-H:2). Publicly available information is excluded, and data handled under the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act or regulated by the FCRA is exempt. The law does not restrict investigating, establishing, exercising, preparing for, or defending legal claims (507-H:10). A ban on selling a child’s personal data (a child under 13, as defined by COPPA; Laws 2026, ch. 168) takes effect January 1, 2027.", "forLicensees": "Expect opt-outs to thin people-search results for New Hampshire residents.", "sources": [ { "label": "RSA 507-H", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/LII/507-H/507-H-mrg.htm" } ] }, { "state": "New Jersey", "id": "archive-fee-2025", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-jersey#archive-fee-2025", "date": "2025-01-01", "title": "New fingerprint archive fee", "type": "State Police fee schedule", "summary": "The State Police fee page lists a “New Archive Fee (January 1, 2025)” of $19.62 alongside the fingerprint fees for private detective applicants. The page does not say which applicants pay it or what authority sets it.", "forLicensees": "Posted fingerprint costs now include a $19.62 archive fee.", "sources": [ { "label": "State Police fees", "url": "https://njsp.njoag.gov/application-fees/" } ] }, { "state": "Alabama", "id": "license-number-notice", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alabama#license-number-notice", "date": "2024-12-18", "title": "License numbers required on online advertising", "type": "Board notice", "summary": "The Board told licensees and agencies that the license number requirement from the 2023 law covers websites, social media, and internet advertising, and that invoices must list the license number of each licensee billed (34-25B-52(c)).", "forLicensees": "Websites and social media accounts count as advertising that must show the license number.", "sources": [ { "label": "Board notice", "url": "https://apib.alabama.gov/PDF/2024/Required%20License%20Numbers%2012-18-2024.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "New York", "id": "clean-slate", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-york#clean-slate", "date": "2024-11-16", "title": "Clean Slate Act seals older convictions automatically", "type": "Chapter 631 of the Laws of 2023", "summary": "Adds Criminal Procedure Law 160.57, which automatically seals eligible convictions 3 years after sentencing or release for misdemeanors and 8 years for felonies, if no charges are pending and other conditions are met; sex offenses and most class A felonies are excluded. The act also amended Executive Law 296(16), which bars asking about sealed matters in licensing or employment unless a statute requires or permits it. Sealed records remain available to entities required by law to receive fingerprint-based criminal history checks. The 296(16) bar does not cover records obtained under CPL 160.57(1)(d)(vii), which includes entities required by state law to run fingerprint-based checks, as GBL 72 and 81 require of the Department. The act does not name the Department of State or private investigators.", "forLicensees": "Executive Law 296(16) bars asking about sealed convictions unless a statute requires or permits it. GBL 81(2)(c) requires each employee’s statement to say the employee has not been convicted of a felony, and neither the act nor the Department says how the two rules interact. The Department likely still sees sealed convictions in its own fingerprint checks, but it has published no guidance on this.", "sources": [ { "label": "A1029-C / S7551-A (Chapter 631)", "url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S7551/amendment/A" }, { "label": "CPL 160.57", "url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/CPL/160.57" }, { "label": "Executive Law 296", "url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/EXC/296" } ] }, { "state": "Oklahoma", "id": "hb-3786", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oklahoma#hb-3786", "date": "2024-11-01", "title": "Retired peace officers: longer evaluation exemption, no fingerprints", "type": "HB 3786, Laws 2024, chapter 55", "summary": "Extends the psychological evaluation exemption for retired full-time CLEET-certified peace officers applying for armed licenses from 1 year to 5 years after retirement (59 O.S. 1750.3A(D)(2)). A retired peace officer applying for an armed investigator or security license need not provide fingerprints if they submit a notarized letter confirming retirement in good standing from an Oklahoma law enforcement agency (1750.6(A)(3)).", "forLicensees": "Retired officers within 5 years of retirement skip the psychological evaluation, and with a notarized letter skip fingerprinting.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 3786 enrolled", "url": "https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2023-24%20ENR/HB/HB3786%20ENR.PDF" } ] }, { "state": "Florida", "id": "r-5n-1-116", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/florida#r-5n-1-116", "date": "2024-10-30", "title": "Late renewal fee set equal to the license fee", "type": "Final rule, r. 5N-1.116", "summary": "Carries out the 2023 law below. A renewal received after expiration but within three months carries a late fee equal to the license fee, and no license can be renewed three or more months after it expires. The division waives the late fee on a request made within three months of expiration if the delay came from reasonable reliance on erroneous written information from the department, or from the department’s failure to provide correct information.", "forLicensees": "Renewing a Class C license late costs an extra $75. Renew before the license expires.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rule 5N-1.116", "url": "https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?id=5N-1.116" }, { "label": "Notice of proposed rule", "url": "https://www.flrules.org/Gateway/View_notice.asp?id=28479217" } ] }, { "state": "Illinois", "id": "core", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/illinois#core", "date": "2024-10-30", "title": "Applications move to the CORE online system", "type": "Agency notice", "summary": "IDFPR launched CORE, its online licensing system. New private detective applications are filed there.", "forLicensees": "Expect to apply for and manage your credential through CORE.", "sources": [ { "label": "IDFPR notice", "url": "https://idfpr.illinois.gov/profs/detective.html" } ] }, { "state": "Iowa", "id": "arc-8226c", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/iowa#arc-8226c", "date": "2024-10-23", "title": "Firearms training rule for private school security officers", "type": "Final rule", "summary": "Implementing 2024 House Files 2586 and 2652, the department added a definition of “private school security officer” to Chapter 121 and a new rule, 121.25, requiring these officers to take part in annual live scenario training, an initial firearm familiarization and course of fire, and quarterly live firearm training under the Chapter 91 weapons permit rules. The same rulemaking set training for the new educator professional permit to carry weapons.", "forLicensees": "Applies to private security staff employed or retained by a school district as private school security officers. No change for private investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "ARC 8226C", "url": "https://rules.iowa.gov/Notice/Details/8226C" }, { "label": "661 IAC Chapter 121", "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/iac/chapter/661.121.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Florida", "id": "ch-2024-114", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/florida#ch-2024-114", "date": "2024-10-01", "title": "Unlawful tracking becomes a felony", "type": "CS/SB 758, Chapter 2024-114, Laws of Florida", "summary": "Amends s. 934.425. Besides installing a tracking device or application on another person’s property without consent, it is now unlawful to place one, or to use one to learn another person’s location or movement. The offense went from a second-degree misdemeanor to a third-degree felony. The existing business purpose exception still does not cover a person doing private investigation for someone else, unless the activity would be exempt if the client did it. The law also extended s. 493.6118(1)(y), which since 2015 has made unlawful installation a ground for discipline, to placing or using a tracker.", "forLicensees": "Placing or using a tracker without consent, outside a listed exception, risks a felony charge and action against the license.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 2024-114", "url": "https://laws.flrules.org/2024/114" }, { "label": "Section 934.425", "url": "http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0900-0999/0934/Sections/0934.425.html" } ] }, { "state": "Hawaii", "id": "act-187-2024", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/hawaii#act-187-2024", "date": "2024-10-01", "title": "Public servants may demand removal of personal information from the internet", "type": "Act 187, SLH 2024 (HB 1916); HRS chapter 92H", "summary": "On a written request from a covered public servant, such as a judge, legislator, department head, or elections worker, any agency, person, or organization must remove protected personal information, including home address and personal phone and email, from the internet within 3 business days (HRS 92H-2). Exceptions include FCRA consumer reports and information governed by the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (92H-6).", "forLicensees": "Remove a requesting public servant’s protected information from anything you post online.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 187", "url": "https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/slh/Years/SLH2024/SLH2024_Act187.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Maryland", "id": "judicial-security-act", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maryland#judicial-security-act", "date": "2024-10-01", "title": "Judicial Security Act: 72-hour removal of judges’ personal information", "type": "Chapter 415 of 2024 (SB 575); crossfile Chapter 414 (HB 664)", "summary": "Adds Courts and Judicial Proceedings 3-2301 to 3-2304. A covered judicial officer or household member, or the Judiciary’s Office of Information Privacy, may send a written request to anyone who has published the officer’s personal information online, who must remove it within 72 hours. Personal information includes home address, phone numbers, personal email, and similar identifiers. Knowingly publishing it, when the person knows or should know it poses an imminent and serious threat and the publication results in assault, harassment, trespass, or property destruction, is a misdemeanor. The Act also creates a Judicial Address Confidentiality Program (3-2401 to 3-2407), under which a person may not knowingly disclose a program participant’s actual address (3-2407).", "forLicensees": "Online publication of a covered judicial officer’s listed personal information must be removed within 72 hours of a qualifying request, and an address confidentiality program participant’s actual address may not be knowingly disclosed.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 415", "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_415_sb0575t.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Maryland", "id": "ch-772-2024", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maryland#ch-772-2024", "date": "2024-10-01", "title": "Ten-year limitations period for stalking", "type": "Chapter 772 of 2024 (SB 391); crossfile Chapter 773 (HB 544)", "summary": "Sets a 10-year statute of limitations for prosecuting stalking under Criminal Law 3-802, which covers tracking a person by a device without their knowledge or consent. The usual misdemeanor limitations period is 1 year.", "forLicensees": "Stalking charges, including for covert device tracking, can be brought up to 10 years after the conduct.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 772", "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_772_sb0391t.pdf" }, { "label": "Criminal Law 3-802", "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gcr§ion=3-802&enactments=false" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "mcdpa", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#mcdpa", "date": "2024-10-01", "title": "Consumer Data Privacy Act takes effect", "type": "SB 384, Ch. 681, L. 2023 (MCA 30-14-2801 and following)", "summary": "Gives consumers rights of access, correction, deletion, and opt-out against covered businesses, enforced by the Attorney General. Processing to investigate, establish, exercise, prepare for, or defend legal claims is exempt.", "forLicensees": "Most investigator firms fall below the thresholds; data vendors may not.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 384", "url": "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/bill/20231/LC1086" } ] }, { "state": "Utah", "id": "hb-532", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/utah#hb-532", "date": "2024-10-01", "title": "Investigator board merged with the bail recovery board", "type": "H.B. 532 (2024), Laws of Utah 2024, ch. 506", "summary": "Repealed the Private Investigator Hearing and Licensure Board and gave its role to the renamed Bail Bond Recovery and Private Investigator Licensure Board, until S.B. 149 moved licensing to DOPL in 2026.", "forLicensees": "Historical since September 1, 2026.", "sources": [ { "label": "H.B. 532", "url": "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0532.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "sb-1454", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#sb-1454", "date": "2024-09-22", "title": "Sunset bill requires written client agreements", "type": "Senate Bill 1454, Chapter 484, Statutes of 2024", "summary": "The BSIS sunset review bill. New section 7524 requires every agreement for PI services to be in writing, with the licensee’s name, address, phone number, and license number, a BSIS disclosure, approximate start and end dates, the scope of work, how reports are delivered, and a breakdown of fees. Work may not begin, and charges may not accrue, before the client authorizes it in writing, and agreements and findings must be kept for two years. The bill moved the next legislative review of BSIS to January 1, 2029 (7573.5) and extended the PI LLC provisions to January 1, 2030.", "forLicensees": "Since July 1, 2025, every engagement needs a written agreement with the required terms, authorized by the client before work starts, and kept for at least two years.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 1454", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1454" }, { "label": "Section 7524", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=7524." }, { "label": "Section 7573.5", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=7573.5." } ] }, { "state": "Massachusetts", "id": "c118-2024", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/massachusetts#c118-2024", "date": "2024-09-18", "title": "Technological monitoring of a family member can be abuse", "type": "Acts of 2024, chapter 118 (H.4744)", "summary": "Adds “coercive control” to the definition of abuse in G.L. c.209A, s.1, which governs protective orders between family or household members. It includes a pattern of behavior intended to threaten, intimidate, harass, isolate, control, coerce, or compel compliance that causes the family or household member to reasonably fear physical harm or have a reduced sense of physical safety or autonomy, such as controlling, regulating, or monitoring the family or household member’s activities, communications, or movements, including through technological means. The act also raised the maximum fine for criminal harassment under c.265, s.43A from $1,000 to $5,000. The stalking statute was not amended.", "forLicensees": "Technological monitoring of a family or household member can support a protective order when the coercive control elements are met; the act does not reach monitoring of people outside that relationship.", "sources": [ { "label": "Acts of 2024, c.118", "url": "https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2024/Chapter118" }, { "label": "c.265, s.43A", "url": "https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter265/Section43A" } ] }, { "state": "Texas", "id": "advertising-rules-2024", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/texas#advertising-rules-2024", "date": "2024-09-11", "title": "Business cards count as advertisements; a home address may be left off", "type": "Final rule, 37 TAC 35.5, 35.9, and 35.13", "summary": "Section 35.9 now states expressly that business cards are advertisements, which must show the company name and license number, and exempts a licensee from publishing its address in advertisements when the address is a residence. Sections 35.5 and 35.9 already barred use of the state seal and department insignia; the amendments extend the ban to the department’s name and to advertisements and websites, but allow the department’s name to be used to show that a company is regulated by DPS. Section 35.13 now treats a sole proprietor who performs regulated services as an employee who must sign the company’s drug-free workplace policy. DPS described the changes as clarifications.", "forLicensees": "Business cards must show the company name and license number. A company run from a home may leave its address off advertisements.", "sources": [ { "label": "Texas Register, adopted rules (archived)", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20251216201328/https://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/archive/September62024/Adopted%20Rules/37.PUBLIC%20SAFETY%20AND%20CORRECTIONS.html" } ] }, { "state": "Nebraska", "id": "lr-364", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/nebraska#lr-364", "date": "2024-09-06", "title": "Interim study of private detective licensing heard; no report filed", "type": "Legislative Resolution 364, 108th Legislature", "summary": "An interim study to review the credentialing requirements for private detectives, private detective agencies, and plain clothes investigators under the Occupational Board Reform Act, which requires each standing committee to review the occupations it oversees every five years (84-948). It was introduced March 25, 2024, referred to the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, and heard September 6, 2024. No action after the hearing is recorded, and the committee’s list of reports has no private detective report after its 2019 review, which recommended keeping licensure.", "forLicensees": "Nothing has changed. No legislation resulted from the study.", "sources": [ { "label": "LR 364", "url": "https://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=57141" }, { "label": "Committee reports", "url": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/reports/government.php" } ] }, { "state": "North Carolina", "id": "rules-2024", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-carolina#rules-2024", "date": "2024-09-01", "title": "Reinstating a lapsed license now requires continuing education", "type": "Final rule, amendments to 14B NCAC 16 .0203, .0201, .0115, .0401, .1101 to .1105, and others; new .1709", "summary": "The Board closed what it called a loophole: a licensee could let a license lapse past the late renewal window and reinstate it without the 12 continuing education hours. Reinstatement now requires proof of continuing education, and the window to reinstate was cut from 3 years after expiration to 2 (.0203). The Board’s FAQ still says 3 years. Applicants now pay the online vendor’s convenience and card fees instead of a fixed $4. Rule .0115 sets a standard for investigating anonymous complaints.", "forLicensees": "A lapsed license can be reinstated only within 2 years, with the 12 hours of continuing education.", "sources": [ { "label": "NC Register 38:19", "url": "https://files.nc.gov/oah/documents/2024-04/Volume-38-Issue-19-April-1-2024.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Colorado", "id": "sb24-011", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/colorado#sb24-011", "date": "2024-08-07", "title": "Civil claim for tracking without consent", "type": "SB 24-011 (C.R.S. 13-20-1301)", "summary": "A person tracked by a tracking device or app without consent may sue the actor who installed the device on the person’s property or caused the tracking, for damages including noneconomic loss. Consent may be revoked at any time. The only exclusions are law enforcement acting in a criminal investigation or official duties, toll authorities, and a parent or guardian tracking a minor child.", "forLicensees": "There is no investigator exception; get written consent from the person tracked.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 24-011", "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-011" } ] }, { "state": "Louisiana", "id": "act-478-2024", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/louisiana#act-478-2024", "date": "2024-08-01", "title": "License, exam, and renewal fees raised", "type": "Act No. 478 (SB 86), 2024 Regular Session", "summary": "Amends La. R.S. 37:3516(A). Agency fees: exam $50 to $100, re-exam $25 to $50, license and annual renewal $250 to $300. Individual and apprentice fees: exam $50 to $100, re-exam $25 to $50, license and annual renewal $100 to $150. The $50 application fees did not change.", "forLicensees": "Annual renewal is $300 for an agency and $150 for an individual.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 86", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=24RS&b=SB86" }, { "label": "Act 478", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381965" } ] }, { "state": "Louisiana", "id": "act-644-2024", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/louisiana#act-644-2024", "date": "2024-08-01", "title": "“Moral turpitude” removed from the licensing bar", "type": "Act No. 644 (HB 954), 2024 Regular Session", "summary": "Strikes “any crime involving moral turpitude” from La. R.S. 37:3507(A)(3), leaving felonies the Board finds directly related to investigator practice under R.S. 37:2950, a standard that was already in the law. It also adds R.S. 37:2950(C), which bars licensing boards from relying on vague terms such as “moral turpitude” or “good character.” Section 37:3508(D)(5), which says the Board shall deny an applicant convicted of a felony, was not amended.", "forLicensees": "Crimes of moral turpitude are no longer a separate listed bar; felony convictions still are.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 954", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=24RS&b=HB954" }, { "label": "La. R.S. 37:3507", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=94180" } ] }, { "state": "Louisiana", "id": "welcome-home-act", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/louisiana#welcome-home-act", "date": "2024-08-01", "title": "Welcome Home Act: licenses for Louisiana residents licensed in other states", "type": "Act No. 253 (SB 60) and Act No. 568 (HB 716), 2024 Regular Session", "summary": "Enacts La. R.S. 37:51 to 37:59. A board must license an individual who holds a current, valid license with a similar scope of practice in another state, has held it for at least a year, earned it by exam or by meeting education, training, or experience standards, is in good standing, has no disqualifying criminal record or pending discipline, pays the fees, and lives in Louisiana (R.S. 37:52(A)). The PI Board is not among the exclusions. The two acts enacted near-identical text. The Board’s license page offers “Welcome Home” endorsement but says applicants must pass the Louisiana state exam, while the Act lets boards require only a jurisprudential exam.", "forLicensees": "Investigators licensed elsewhere for at least a year who live in Louisiana have this route in addition to reciprocity under 37:3518.", "sources": [ { "label": "Board license page", "url": "https://lsbpie.com/licenseinfo.aspx" }, { "label": "HB 716", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=24RS&b=HB716" }, { "label": "SB 60", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=24RS&b=SB60" } ] }, { "state": "Nebraska", "id": "lb-16", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/nebraska#lb-16", "date": "2024-07-19", "title": "Licensing for applicants credentialed in other states or the military", "type": "Legislative Bill 16, 108th Legislature", "summary": "Amended the Occupational Board Reform Act. Under section 84-950, an occupational board must issue a license to an applicant who has held a credential for at least one year in another state, or a military occupational specialty, for an occupation with a similar scope of practice, if the credential required an exam or education, training, or experience standards and the applicant has no disqualifying criminal record, no revoked or surrendered credential, and no pending complaint. Applicants from states that do not license the occupation may qualify with three years of work experience. The board may require a jurisprudential exam on Nebraska law if one is required of other applicants, and must generally approve or deny a complete application in writing within 60 days. The exclusions in 84-946.01 do not name the Secretary of State or private detectives.", "forLicensees": "Investigators licensed in another state for at least a year have a path to a Nebraska license. The Nebraska exam may still be required.", "sources": [ { "label": "Section 84-950", "url": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=84-950" }, { "label": "LB 16", "url": "https://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=49705" }, { "label": "2024 effective dates", "url": "https://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/pdf/reports/revisor/datelist2024.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "New York", "id": "judicial-security", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-york#judicial-security", "date": "2024-07-19", "title": "Judges can have their personal information taken down", "type": "Chapter 55 of the Laws of 2024, Part F (Judiciary Law 859)", "summary": "Judiciary Law 859 lets current and former state judges and federal judges send a written request to their court employer, which then notifies, by certified mail, each person, business, or agency the judge names; the recipient must stop making the judge’s listed personal information public within 72 hours of receiving that notice.", "forLicensees": "An investigator or agency that receives such a notice must stop publishing the judge’s listed personal information within 72 hours of receipt.", "sources": [ { "label": "Judiciary Law 859", "url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/JUD/859" } ] }, { "state": "New Hampshire", "id": "hb-1260", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-hampshire#hb-1260", "date": "2024-07-14", "title": "Violation of privacy involving a minor becomes a felony", "type": "HB 1260 (2024), Laws 2024, ch. 71", "summary": "Adds RSA 644:9, VII: violating the device surveillance, viewing, or curtilage provisions of the privacy law when a reasonable person knows or should know the person entitled to privacy is under 18 is a class B felony, and a repeat conviction a class A felony.", "forLicensees": "Take care with surveillance near homes where minors are present.", "sources": [ { "label": "RSA 644:9", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/LXII/644/644-9.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Hawaii", "id": "act-239-2024", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/hawaii#act-239-2024", "date": "2024-07-09", "title": "Using a computer to commit a privacy violation becomes a separate crime", "type": "Act 239, SLH 2024 (SB 2193)", "summary": "Adds violation of privacy in the first and second degree (HRS 711-1110.9, 711-1111) to the offenses for which knowingly using a computer to identify, pursue, surveil, or contact the victim is a separate crime (HRS 708-893(1)).", "forLicensees": "Computer-assisted surveillance that violates the privacy statutes carries an added charge until July 1, 2027.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 2193 CD1", "url": "https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2024/bills/SB2193_CD1_.htm" } ] }, { "state": "North Carolina", "id": "sl-2024-30", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-carolina#sl-2024-30", "date": "2024-07-02", "title": "Civilian traffic investigators exempted", "type": "Session Law 2024-30 (House Bill 199), section 29", "summary": "Adds G.S. 74C-3(b)(19), which excludes from private protective services a person working as a Civilian Traffic Investigator under G.S. 160A-499.6.", "forLicensees": "No change for private investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "S.L. 2024-30", "url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/SessionLaws/HTML/2023-2024/SL2024-30.html" } ] }, { "state": "Colorado", "id": "sb24-131", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/colorado#sb24-131", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Firearms barred in courthouses and government buildings", "type": "SB 24-131", "summary": "Bars open and concealed carry in state legislative buildings, local governing-body buildings, and courthouses, adds licensed child care centers to the existing school and college ban, and limits permit holders at colleges and child care centers to parking areas; a local government may allow carry in its buildings, and permit holders may carry concealed in adjacent parking areas (C.R.S. 18-12-105.3, -105.5).", "forLicensees": "Do not carry into a courthouse when serving or attending hearings.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 24-131", "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-131" } ] }, { "state": "Florida", "id": "ch-2024-137", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/florida#ch-2024-137", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Two calibers in one requalification class; tax collectors may take applications", "type": "CS/CS/SB 1084, Chapter 2024-137, Laws of Florida", "summary": "At the instructor’s discretion, a Class G licensee may requalify on up to two calibers in one 4-hour class, with a separate course of fire for each (s. 493.6113(3)(b)). New s. 493.6127 lets FDACS appoint county tax collectors to accept new, renewal, and replacement license applications, with convenience fees of $22 for a new application, $12 for a renewal or replacement, and $9 each for fingerprints and photographs.", "forLicensees": "Armed investigators can requalify on two calibers in one class.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 2024-137", "url": "https://laws.flrules.org/2024/137" } ] }, { "state": "Georgia", "id": "hb-1193", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/georgia#hb-1193", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Amber light law lists private detective business vehicles", "type": "House Bill 1193, Act 510 (2024)", "summary": "Rewrites O.C.G.A. 40-8-35. New subsection (b) lists vehicles that “shall utilize” flashing or revolving amber lights under the conditions it sets, and paragraph (13) is a vehicle operated in the course of business by a person licensed or registered as a private detective or private security business under Chapter 38 of Title 43. Using amber lights not authorized by the listed sections is a misdemeanor.", "forLicensees": "Business vehicles of licensed detective companies are among those the amber light statute lists. Board Rule 509-4-.04(2), which covers private security business vehicles and still requires authorization from the Board of Public Safety under O.C.G.A. 40-8-92, has not been amended since December 2022.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 1193", "url": "https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/66813" } ] }, { "state": "Georgia", "id": "sb-195", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/georgia#sb-195", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Residency no longer required for license by endorsement", "type": "Senate Bill 195, Act 555 (2024)", "summary": "Mainly enacts the Social Work Licensure Compact, but section 3 also amends O.C.G.A. 43-1-35(c) to remove the requirement that an endorsement applicant first move to Georgia and establish residency. Section 3 applies to every professional licensing board and other Title 43 board, including this one.", "forLicensees": "An out-of-state licensee need not live in Georgia to apply by endorsement. The Board’s FAQ (archived April 2026) says it does not reciprocate with any other state for licensure and that every company applicant must pass the exam, with no exceptions for licenses held in other states. It does have limited license recognition agreements with eight states that let an investigator licensed there finish a home-state case in Georgia for up to 30 days per case per year.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 195", "url": "https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/64473" } ] }, { "state": "Idaho", "id": "h-588", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/idaho#h-588", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Longer public records deadline for non-residents", "type": "H 588 (2024), ch. 107 (Idaho Code 74-103(2))", "summary": "When an agency needs more time, it must still produce records within 10 working days for an Idaho resident, but now has up to 21 working days for a non-resident.", "forLicensees": "H 253 (2025, ch. 298) replaced this rule on July 1, 2025. An agency now has 21 days to grant or deny a request from a person who is not an Idaho resident (and not employed by one) and up to 35 days to produce the records, and every request must include a sworn statement of residency (Idaho Code 74-102(4), 74-103(2)).", "sources": [ { "label": "H 588", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0588/" } ] }, { "state": "Idaho", "id": "s-1262", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/idaho#s-1262", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Telephone harassment law extended to email and texts", "type": "S 1262 (2024), ch. 253 (Idaho Code 18-6710)", "summary": "Extends the harassment offense from telephone calls to email, text messages, and other electronic communication made with intent to annoy, threaten, or harass.", "forLicensees": "Repeated pretext messages to a subject who has asked for no contact carry risk.", "sources": [ { "label": "S 1262", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/S1262/" } ] }, { "state": "Iowa", "id": "hf-2164", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/iowa#hf-2164", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Bail bond sureties must be licensed to do bail enforcement", "type": "House File 2164, 90th General Assembly", "summary": "Amended Iowa Code 80A.2 so that the exemption for a person employed by one employer in connection with that employer’s affairs does not cover a person employed by a surety licensed under Chapter 811 who is acting as a bail enforcement agent. It also amended Chapter 811 to bar a company acting as surety from bail enforcement activity without a Chapter 80A license from the Department of Public Safety.", "forLicensees": "No change for private investigators. Bail enforcement work for an insurance company surety now requires a Chapter 80A license.", "sources": [ { "label": "2024 Iowa Acts, chapter 1028", "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/acts/2024/CH1028.pdf" }, { "label": "HF 2164", "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=90&ba=HF2164" } ] }, { "state": "Kansas", "id": "sb-414", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/kansas#sb-414", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Hidden-camera crime no longer requires a hidden camera", "type": "SB 414 (2024), L. 2024, ch. 96, sec. 5", "summary": "Removes “concealed” and “secretly” from the offense of using a camera to record a person under or through clothing or while undressed (K.S.A. 21-6101(a)(6)).", "forLicensees": "An openly placed camera can also violate the law.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 414", "url": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2023_24/bills/download/?apn=b2023_24/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_414/sb414_enrolled.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Kansas", "id": "sb-491", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/kansas#sb-491", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Fingerprint checks standardized under one statute", "type": "SB 491 (2024), L. 2024, ch. 15", "summary": "Adds K.S.A. 22-4714, under which the Attorney General may require fingerprints of detective, agency, and firearm trainer applicants for a KBI state and national check, and conforms K.S.A. 75-7b04 and 75-7b21 to it.", "forLicensees": "Who must be fingerprinted did not change.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 491", "url": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2023_24/bills/download/?apn=b2023_24/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_491/sb491_enrolled.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "sb-619", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#sb-619", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Oregon Consumer Privacy Act takes effect", "type": "SB 619, Oregon Laws 2023 chapter 369", "summary": "Applies to persons that control or process personal data of 100,000 or more consumers, or 25,000 or more while getting 25 percent or more of gross revenue from selling personal data (ORS 646A.572). It does not prohibit investigating, establishing, initiating, or defending legal claims, and it exempts FCRA-regulated activity. It names no investigator exemption.", "forLicensees": "The Act reaches an investigator business only if it meets the volume thresholds.", "sources": [ { "label": "2023 c.369", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2023orLaw0369.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "hb-4156", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#hb-4156", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Electronic location monitoring counts toward stalking", "type": "HB 4156, Oregon Laws 2024 chapter 90", "summary": "Adds to the stalking definition of “contact” using an electronic device or service to obtain or monitor another person’s location, communications, or activities without consent (ORS 163.730(3)(o)). A GPS-device offense under ORS 163.715 that is part of stalking, or of violating a stalking protective order, can make the crime a Class C felony (ORS 163.732, 163.750). Oregon’s stalking law has no investigator exception.", "forLicensees": "Nonconsensual electronic location monitoring can be stalking contact, with no exception for licensed investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "2024 c.90", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2024orLaw0090.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "South Dakota", "id": "sb-169", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/south-dakota#sb-169", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Drone voyeurism and harassment made a crime", "type": "SB 169 (2024), SL 2024 ch 194", "summary": "Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to operate a drone for voyeuristic or harassment purposes or carelessly so as to endanger people or property, and provides that a drone may be the instrument of a privacy or trespass tort (SDCL chapter 50-15). Landing on another’s personal property without consent is added to the existing ban on landing on private property.", "forLicensees": "Drone footage can support privacy or trespass claims.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 169", "url": "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24626" } ] }, { "state": "Tennessee", "id": "pc-944", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/tennessee#pc-944", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Advisory private letter rulings for licensees", "type": "2024 Public Chapter 944 (SB 2588)", "summary": "Programs attached to the Division of Regulatory Boards must issue an advisory private letter ruling on request to a person they license, on matters within their jurisdiction. A ruling binds only the requester and sets no precedent.", "forLicensees": "A licensed investigator may ask the program for an advisory ruling on a question within its jurisdiction.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Chapter 944", "url": "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0944.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Tennessee", "id": "pc-788", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/tennessee#pc-788", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Conviction-based decisions must explain the connection", "type": "2024 Public Chapter 788 (HB 1859)", "summary": "Adds Tenn. Code Ann. 62-76-104(g): when a prior conviction is a basis for a decision, a licensing authority may not rely on vague terms such as “good moral character” without explaining how the conviction directly relates to the occupation. The section’s definition of a licensing authority covers any state department, board, commission, or agency, which includes the commissioner-run program.", "forLicensees": "A conviction-based decision cannot rest on a vague term such as “good moral character” without explaining how the conviction directly relates to the work.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Chapter 788", "url": "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0788.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Tennessee", "id": "pc-682", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/tennessee#pc-682", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Stalking “harassment” gets a reckless-disregard standard", "type": "2024 Public Chapter 682", "summary": "Rewrites the “harassment” definition in the stalking law, Tenn. Code Ann. 39-17-315(a)(3). The old test was contact that would cause a reasonable person to suffer emotional distress; the new test is conduct committed with reckless disregard for whether the victim will suffer emotional distress. The victim must still actually suffer distress, and the existing exclusion for constitutionally protected activity or conduct that serves a legitimate purpose is carried over unchanged.", "forLicensees": "Harassment now requires reckless disregard of the victim’s distress. The legitimate-purpose exclusion is not new, and the 2023 single tracker placement rule still applies.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Chapter 682", "url": "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0682.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Virginia", "id": "hb-203", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/virginia#hb-203", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Human trafficking training for security officers, not investigators", "type": "House Bill 203, 2024 Acts chapter 367", "summary": "Amends Code of Va. 9.1-102 and 9.1-141 to require training in recognizing and reporting human trafficking for unarmed and armed security officers, couriers, security canine handlers, and alarm respondents. It is the only 2023–2026 amendment to the private security services article, and private investigators are not among the listed classifications.", "forLicensees": "No new training requirement for registered private investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "2024 Acts c. 367", "url": "https://legacylis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0367" }, { "label": "Section 9.1-141", "url": "https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title9.1/chapter1/section9.1-141/" } ] }, { "state": "Washington", "id": "shb-1889", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/washington#shb-1889", "date": "2024-07-01", "title": "Immigration-status licensing law excludes investigators", "type": "SHB 1889, 2024 c 50", "summary": "Makes people not lawfully present eligible for most professional licenses and bars denial solely on immigration status, but RCW 18.415.010(6) says the chapter does not apply to private investigators (chapter 18.165 RCW) or security guards.", "forLicensees": "The citizenship or resident requirement in RCW 18.165.030(2) still applies.", "sources": [ { "label": "2024 c 50", "url": "https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1889-S.SL.pdf" }, { "label": "Chapter 18.415 RCW", "url": "https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=18.415&full=true" } ] }, { "state": "Louisiana", "id": "act-77-2024", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/louisiana#act-77-2024", "date": "2024-06-30", "title": "Department and its boards re-created under the Sunset Law", "type": "Act No. 77 (HB 450), 2024 Regular Session", "summary": "Re-creates the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the statutory entities placed in it, which include the PI Board (R.S. 36:409), with a new termination date of July 1, 2029.", "forLicensees": "The Board’s next sunset date is July 1, 2029, unless the Legislature acts.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 450", "url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=24RS&b=HB450" } ] }, { "state": "West Virginia", "id": "sb-477", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/west-virginia#sb-477", "date": "2024-06-04", "title": "Health care workers’ personal information protected", "type": "SB 477 (2024), new W. Va. Code 61-3C-14d and 5A-8-25", "summary": "Makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly post a health care worker’s or family member’s home address, phone numbers, or photos of the home online with intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite violence, or with the intent and knowledge that it will be used that way, and lets health care workers ask officials to stop making such information available online.", "forLicensees": "Posting such information is a crime only with the stated intent.", "sources": [ { "label": "W. Va. Code 61-3C-14d", "url": "https://code.wvlegislature.gov/61-3C-14d/" } ] }, { "state": "Maryland", "id": "ch-737-2024", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maryland#ch-737-2024", "date": "2024-06-01", "title": "Applications and fees in the format the Secretary sets", "type": "Chapter 737 of 2024 (HB 172); crossfile Chapter 738 (SB 287)", "summary": "Amends 13-304, 13-308, 13-403, and 13-404.1 so agency and certification applications and renewals are submitted in the manner and format the Secretary designates, fees are paid by an approved method, and renewal notices are sent electronically. Fee amounts and qualifications did not change.", "forLicensees": "Renewal notices now arrive electronically.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 737", "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_737_hb0172t.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Indiana", "id": "lsa-23-821", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/indiana#lsa-23-821", "date": "2024-05-30", "title": "Existing rules readopted without change", "type": "Final rule", "summary": "Readopted 874 IAC 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, and 2-1 under Indiana’s five-year rule expiration law. Nothing was repealed.", "forLicensees": "Licensing, renewal, and fee rules remain in force unchanged.", "sources": [ { "label": "Final rule", "url": "https://iar.iga.in.gov/register/20240626-IR-874230821RFA" } ] }, { "state": "Minnesota", "id": "ch-123-2024", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/minnesota#ch-123-2024", "date": "2024-05-24", "title": "Prisoner transport brought under protective agent licensing", "type": "2024 Minn. Laws ch. 123, art. 5, secs. 13 to 15", "summary": "Private companies that provide guards to transport prisoners or people arrested on a warrant now need a protective agent license. The board must revoke, suspend, or refuse to issue or reissue a license if the license holder or its staff commits criminal sexual conduct or uses unreasonable force on a person being transported, with a minimum $10,000 administrative penalty per act. A 2025 law (ch. 35, art. 7, sec. 14) added transfers by people employed by a federal law enforcement agency to the transport exceptions.", "forLicensees": "No change for private detectives who do not transport people.", "sources": [ { "label": "2024 session law", "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2024/0/123/" }, { "label": "House summary", "url": "https://www.house.mn.gov/NewLaws/story/2024/5593" }, { "label": "2025 session law", "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2025/0/35/" } ] }, { "state": "Nevada", "id": "sb-370", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/nevada#sb-370", "date": "2024-03-31", "title": "Consumer health data law and geofence ban", "type": "SB 370, Statutes of Nevada 2023, chapter 525", "summary": "Adds NRS 603A.400 to 603A.550 on consumer health data. NRS 603A.540 bars any person from setting a geofence within 1,750 feet of a medical facility or other in-person health care provider to identify or track people seeking care, collect their health data, or send them related messages.", "forLicensees": "The geofence ban applies to any person, including investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "NRS 603A", "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-603A.html" } ] }, { "state": "Wisconsin", "id": "act-218", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/wisconsin#act-218", "date": "2024-03-28", "title": "Concealed carry for tactical EMS professionals", "type": "2023 Wisconsin Act 218", "summary": "Creates Wis. Stat. 440.26 (3m) (am). The department’s rules on carrying dangerous weapons by license and permit holders and their employees must allow a person certified as a tactical emergency medical services professional under Wis. Stat. 165.85 (3) to carry a concealed firearm.", "forLicensees": "No change for most private detectives. It matters only for staff who hold that certification.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act text", "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/acts/218" } ] }, { "state": "Maine", "id": "pl-2023-c519", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maine#pl-2023-c519", "date": "2024-03-06", "title": "Stalking and terrorizing laws revised after Counterman v. Colorado", "type": "P.L. 2023, c. 519 (L.D. 2085), emergency law", "summary": "Rewrites the definition of course of conduct in 17-A M.R.S. 210-A(2)(A) so that threats and communications count when made while consciously disregarding a substantial risk of causing the statute’s effects, and adds a recklessness standard to terrorizing and telephone harassment. The existing coverage of following, monitoring, tracking, or surveilling a person by any device or means dates from 2007. Stalking still requires intentionally or knowingly engaging in conduct that would cause a reasonable person serious inconvenience, emotional distress, or fear.", "forLicensees": "Keep surveillance purposeful, limited, and documented.", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L. 2023, c. 519", "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/ros/LawsOfMaine/breeze/Law/getDocById/?docId=105846" } ] }, { "state": "Hawaii", "id": "act-52-2023", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/hawaii#act-52-2023", "date": "2024-01-01", "title": "Carry licensing rewritten; licensed detectives exempt from the registered-owner rule", "type": "Act 52, SLH 2023 (SB 1230)", "summary": "Rewrites HRS 134-9. A carry license applicant must be the registered owner of the firearm, except detectives, private detectives, investigators, and guards with an active chapter 463 license (134-9(d)(2)). Adds a list of sensitive places where carrying is barred (134-9.1), with an exception for a chapter 463 licensee acting within the scope of employment and expressly authorized by the owner, lessee, operator, or manager of the premises.", "forLicensees": "A licensed detective may seek a carry license for a firearm registered to an employer; written authorization from the appropriate state agency or county police chief under HAR 16-97-17 is still required.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 1230 CD1", "url": "https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2023/bills/SB1230_CD1_.htm" }, { "label": "HRS 134-9", "url": "https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol03_Ch0121-0200D/HRS0134/HRS_0134-0009.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Idaho", "id": "h-149", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/idaho#h-149", "date": "2024-01-01", "title": "Clean Slate Act: courts may shield some criminal records", "type": "H 149 (2023), ch. 108 (Idaho Code 67-3004(11))", "summary": "Lets a person with a non-violent misdemeanor or felony drug possession record petition, 5 years after completing the sentence, to shield it; shielded court and State Police records become unavailable to the public.", "forLicensees": "Do not treat the absence of a record as conclusive.", "sources": [ { "label": "H 149", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2023/legislation/H0149/" } ] }, { "state": "New Hampshire", "id": "hb-97", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-hampshire#hb-97", "date": "2024-01-01", "title": "Repeat violations of privacy become a felony", "type": "HB 97 (2023), Laws 2023, ch. 179", "summary": "Makes a second or subsequent conviction under RSA 644:9, I to III-a, which cover device surveillance of private places and private body parts, nonconsensual dissemination of sexual recordings, and voyeuristic viewing, a class B felony (644:9, VI). The underlying offenses and the paragraph V exception for employees investigating suspected illegal activity, rule violations, or insurance fraud with articulable suspicion were not changed.", "forLicensees": "Paragraph V names visual images, sound recordings, and other physical impressions, not location data, and covers only investigations supported by articulable suspicion.", "sources": [ { "label": "RSA 644:9", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/LXII/644/644-9.htm" } ] }, { "state": "North Carolina", "id": "rule-1109", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-carolina#rule-1109", "date": "2024-01-01", "title": "Investigators may take on interns and apprentices", "type": "Final rule, new 14B NCAC 16 .1109", "summary": "A PI licensee may employ a potential trainee as a probationary employee for 60 days, extendable by 30, and may take on interns enrolled in school for credit and apprentices in a registered North Carolina apprenticeship program. Before doing investigative work or seeing confidential client information, a probationary employee must complete 40 hours of one-on-one supervision and pass the licensee’s criminal record check, and the licensee must notify the Director in writing first. Participants must be at least 18, and their hours can count toward licensure if the employee complies with Rule .1102.", "forLicensees": "Supervised intern and apprentice hours can count toward the 3-year experience requirement when logged as Rule .1102 requires.", "sources": [ { "label": "NC Register 37:24", "url": "https://files.nc.gov/oah/documents/2023-06/Volume-37-Issue-24-June-15-2023.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "hb-2052", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#hb-2052", "date": "2024-01-01", "title": "Data broker registry", "type": "HB 2052, Oregon Laws 2023 chapter 395 (ORS 646A.593)", "summary": "A data broker must register with the Department of Consumer and Business Services before collecting, selling, or licensing brokered personal data in Oregon. FCRA- and GLBA-regulated activity and data about a business’s own customers or employees are excluded. Penalties are up to $500 per violation or per day, capped at $10,000 a year. There is no investigator exemption.", "forLicensees": "An investigator business that sells or licenses brokered personal data about Oregon residents must register unless an exclusion applies.", "sources": [ { "label": "2023 c.395", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2023orLaw0395.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Ohio", "id": "sb-131", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/ohio#sb-131", "date": "2023-12-29", "title": "Licensing for applicants from other states", "type": "Senate Bill 131, 134th General Assembly", "summary": "Rewrote ORC 4749.12. PISGS must issue a license under ORC Chapter 4796 to a person licensed as a private investigator or security guard provider in another state, or to a person with qualifying work experience or certification from a state that does not issue the license. The former provision let the director waive the exam for some nonresidents licensed in another state.", "forLicensees": "Investigators licensed in another state have a path to an Ohio license under Chapter 4796.", "sources": [ { "label": "ORC 4749.12", "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4749.12" }, { "label": "SB 131", "url": "https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/134/sb131" } ] }, { "state": "Georgia", "id": "rule-295-2-01", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/georgia#rule-295-2-01", "date": "2023-12-17", "title": "Instructor certifications expire with company licenses", "type": "Final rule, joint rule 295-2-.01", "summary": "The Secretary of State’s joint expiration rule now lists “Companies and Instructors” for this Board, so Board-certified training instructors expire June 30 of odd-numbered years, the same date as company licenses. Employee registrations stay on the August 31 cycle.", "forLicensees": "Certified instructors renew by June 30 of odd-numbered years.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rule 295-2-.01", "url": "https://rules.sos.ga.gov/gac/295-2-.01" } ] }, { "state": "Pennsylvania", "id": "act-53-2023", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/pennsylvania#act-53-2023", "date": "2023-12-14", "title": "Wiretap Act, with its private detective exception, extended to 2029", "type": "Act 53 of 2023", "summary": "Amends 18 Pa.C.S. 5781 to extend the Wiretap Act’s expiration from December 31, 2023 to December 31, 2029. Without the extension, all of Chapter 57 would have expired, including the exception in section 5704(17) that lets a private detective licensed under the 1953 Act intercept a wire, electronic, or oral communication when under a reasonable suspicion that the intercepted party is committing, about to commit, or has committed a crime of violence and there is reason to believe evidence of that crime may be obtained from the interception, and the tracking device order provisions in section 5761. The Act also added section 5704(19), on telemarketing calls, along with provisions on recordings by parole agents and Department of Corrections officers (sections 5702, 5729, and 5750).", "forLicensees": "The private detective interception exception in section 5704(17) remains in force through December 31, 2029, unless extended again.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 53 of 2023", "url": "https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/US/HTM/2023/0/0053..HTM" }, { "label": "18 Pa.C.S. 5704", "url": "https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/18/00.057.004.000..HTM" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "mar-24-182-36", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#mar-24-182-36", "date": "2023-12-09", "title": "Rules overhauled; investigator continuing education repealed", "type": "MAR Notice No. 24-182-36", "summary": "Repeals the investigator continuing education rules (ARM 24.182.2101 to 24.182.2108) and inactive status, and keeps the 5,400-hour experience requirement with up to 2,700 hours from training or education.", "forLicensees": "No continuing education is required.", "sources": [ { "label": "Notice of amendment and repeal", "url": "https://rules.mt.gov/api/policy-library-public/collections/5e1173a6-33c7-4df8-b426-5e0077cfc430/policies/df75757f-9b40-4962-a8f3-6cc51dfd54fc" } ] }, { "state": "Georgia", "id": "rule-509-2-02", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/georgia#rule-509-2-02", "date": "2023-12-06", "title": "Company qualification rule: any law enforcement agency counts", "type": "Final rule, 509-2-.02", "summary": "Law enforcement experience toward the 2-year company qualification now counts from any federal, state, county, or municipal agency, not only a police department. A dual detective and security company must meet both standards. The rule dropped the 45-day exam filing deadline and the 60-day deadline to complete an application.", "forLicensees": "Investigators from non-police agencies can qualify a company with their law enforcement experience.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rule 509-2-.02", "url": "https://rules.sos.ga.gov/gac/509-2-.02" } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "bsis-power-to-arrest", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#bsis-power-to-arrest", "date": "2023-12-01", "title": "Power to Arrest training updated for use of force", "type": "Final rule, 16 CCR 628, 631, 633, 635, 643, and 646", "summary": "BSIS amended its Power to Arrest training rules to carry out AB 229 (2021) and AB 2515 (2022), which require the training to cover appropriate use of force. Investigators applying for a firearms permit complete the Power to Arrest course as well as firearms training.", "forLicensees": "A firearms permit application now requires the updated Power to Arrest and use of force course.", "sources": [ { "label": "Approved regulations, 2023", "url": "https://www.bsis.ca.gov/about_us/laws/approved_regs2023.shtml" }, { "label": "Notice of proposed action", "url": "https://www.bsis.ca.gov/about_us/laws/powertoarrest_notice.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Missouri", "id": "20-csr-2234-1-050-2023", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#20-csr-2234-1-050-2023", "date": "2023-11-30", "title": "Fee rule reworded; amounts unchanged", "type": "Final rule", "summary": "The board described the amendment as a language cleanup. It drops the word “fee” from each line item, states the additional agency license fees as $200 initial and $100 renewal, and renames the insufficient funds fee the bad check fee ($25). No fee amount changed.", "forLicensees": "No change in what you pay.", "sources": [ { "label": "20 CSR 2234-1.050", "url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/adrules/csr/current/20csr/20c2234-1.pdf" }, { "label": "Proposed amendment, Missouri Register", "url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/AdRules/moreg/2023/v48n13July3/v48n13.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Indiana", "id": "lsa-23-52", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/indiana#lsa-23-52", "date": "2023-11-14", "title": "Convictions of concern and pre-licensure determinations", "type": "Final rule", "summary": "Adds 874 IAC 3. Lists the convictions that may disqualify an applicant, allows probationary licenses, and creates a $25 petition for a determination before applying.", "forLicensees": "Applicants or firm qualifiers with a criminal record can get a ruling for $25 before applying.", "sources": [ { "label": "Final rule", "url": "https://iar.iga.in.gov/register/20231213-IR-874230052FRA" }, { "label": "Rulemaking docket", "url": "https://www.in.gov/pla/rulesingov/lsa23-52-indiana-private-investigator-and-security-guard-licensing-board/" } ] }, { "state": "North Carolina", "id": "rules-2023-11", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-carolina#rules-2023-11", "date": "2023-11-01", "title": "Trainees keep their own hour logs", "type": "Final rule, 14B NCAC 16 .0205 and .1101", "summary": "Rule .1101 now makes the PI associate, not the supervising licensee, keep the trainee log. Rule .0205 now covers a corporate licensee whose corporate status is dissolved or suspended.", "forLicensees": "Trainees are responsible for their own hour logs.", "sources": [ { "label": "NC Register 37:19", "url": "https://files.nc.gov/oah/documents/2023-04/Volume-37-Issue-19-April-3-2023.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Arizona", "id": "sb-1221", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/arizona#sb-1221", "date": "2023-10-30", "title": "Investigators may fingerprint unidentified hospital patients", "type": "Senate Bill 1221, Laws 2023, Chapter 163", "summary": "A licensed hospital may ask a criminal justice agency to identify an incapacitated or deceased unidentified patient through fingerprints or biometrics. A private investigator registered under Chapter 24 may take the fingerprints or biometric information and give them to the agency without the patient’s consent; the agency returns only the patient’s name. Now codified at A.R.S. 41-2415.", "forLicensees": "Registered investigators have express authority to do this work at a hospital’s request.", "sources": [ { "label": "Laws 2023, Ch. 163", "url": "https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/1r/laws/0163.htm" }, { "label": "A.R.S. 41-2415", "url": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/41/02415.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "dpsst-9-2023", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#dpsst-9-2023", "date": "2023-10-26", "title": "Continuing education may be remote or self-study", "type": "Final rule, DPSST 9-2023 (OAR 259-061-0240, -0005)", "summary": "Allows continuing education in person, remotely, or by self-study, removes hour limits on individual sources, and clarifies carryover. The 32- and 40-hour requirements and the 15-hour carryover were already set by ORS 703.447.", "forLicensees": "Remote and self-study courses count toward the required hours.", "sources": [ { "label": "DPSST 9-2023", "url": "https://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSCMSearch/Search/RecordViewer.aspx?uri=9848309" } ] }, { "state": "Maine", "id": "pl-2023-c235", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maine#pl-2023-c235", "date": "2023-10-25", "title": "Investigative record copies free for crime victims and their agents", "type": "P.L. 2023, c. 235 (L.D. 1438)", "summary": "Replaces 16 M.R.S. 805 with 805-A, the exceptions to confidentiality of intelligence and investigative records. As before, “agent” includes a licensed professional investigator. New: agencies may not charge a crime victim or the victim’s agent or attorney for copies, and a person is entitled to one free copy of a complaint the person made.", "forLicensees": "Copies you receive as a crime victim’s agent are free.", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L. 2023, c. 235", "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/ros/LawsOfMaine/breeze/Law/getDocById/?docId=102705" } ] }, { "state": "Maine", "id": "pl-2023-c227", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/maine#pl-2023-c227", "date": "2023-10-25", "title": "Violation of privacy: new offenses when the person is under 16", "type": "P.L. 2023, c. 227 (L.D. 115)", "summary": "Adds offenses to 17-A M.R.S. 511(1) for violating privacy, including by surveillance devices in a private place, when the person is under 16. The existing prohibitions on trespassing to observe a private place and on devices that capture what is not ordinarily visible or audible are unchanged.", "forLicensees": "Take extra care when minors are in a subject’s household.", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L. 2023, c. 227", "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/ros/LawsOfMaine/breeze/Law/getDocById/?docId=102683" } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "ab-1244", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#ab-1244", "date": "2023-10-08", "title": "New qualified manager license", "type": "Assembly Bill 1244, Chapter 571, Statutes of 2023", "summary": "From January 1, 2025, a qualified manager certificate holder who wants to manage a PI license other than their own must hold a qualified manager license, and a person may be qualified manager for no more than five licensees (7536(c)). Section 7525.2 sets the application requirements, the license expires every two years, and section 7570 sets its fees. The bill also revised the firearms permit sections (7542 to 7542.6), changing some mandatory revocations to discretionary ones.", "forLicensees": "A qualified manager for another licensee’s business needs the separate qualified manager license, renewed every two years.", "sources": [ { "label": "AB 1244", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1244" }, { "label": "Section 7536", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=7536." }, { "label": "Section 7525.2", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=7525.2." } ] }, { "state": "Connecticut", "id": "pa-23-23", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/connecticut#pa-23-23", "date": "2023-10-01", "title": "Process may be served by an indifferent person only where a statute allows", "type": "Public Act 23-23 (HB 6786), section 4", "summary": "Amends Conn. Gen. Stat. 52-50 so process may be directed to an indifferent person only when authorized by statute; an indifferent person who knowingly serves process without that authority commits a class A misdemeanor.", "forLicensees": "A private detective license does not authorize serving civil process.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Act 23-23", "url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/ACT/PA/PDF/2023PA-00023-R00HB-06786-PA.PDF" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "sb-454", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#sb-454", "date": "2023-10-01", "title": "Board of Private Security abolished", "type": "SB 454, Ch. 481, L. 2023", "summary": "Repeals the Board of Private Security (MCA 2-15-1781, 37-60-201) and gives its authority to the Department of Labor and Industry, which now adopts and enforces the rules (37-60-202).", "forLicensees": "Licenses, complaints, and rules are handled by Department staff.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 454", "url": "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/bill/20231/LC2182" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "sb-321", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#sb-321", "date": "2023-10-01", "title": "Stalking: monitoring includes GPS devices", "type": "SB 321, Ch. 444, L. 2023", "summary": "Provides that “monitors” in the stalking statute includes use of any electronic, digital, or global positioning device or similar technology (MCA 45-5-220(2)(b)).", "forLicensees": "The stalking law has no investigator exemption.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 321", "url": "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/bill/20231/LC0775" } ] }, { "state": "Montana", "id": "hb-115", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/montana#hb-115", "date": "2023-10-01", "title": "Uniform penalties for unlicensed practice", "type": "HB 115, Ch. 366, L. 2023", "summary": "Lets the Department issue cease-and-desist orders for unlicensed practice, with penalties up to $1,000 a day for violating one (MCA 37-1-109), and repeals the chapter’s own penalty section (37-60-411).", "forLicensees": "Unlicensed investigative work faces daily penalties.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 115", "url": "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/bill/20231/LC0395" } ] }, { "state": "Nevada", "id": "sb-32", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/nevada#sb-32", "date": "2023-10-01", "title": "Prisoner transport businesses exempted", "type": "SB 32, Statutes of Nevada 2023, chapter 103", "summary": "Adds NRS 648.018(17), exempting businesses engaged exclusively in transporting people for custody transfers or extradition. It is the only amendment to NRS 648 from 2023 through October 2026.", "forLicensees": "Investigator licensing is unchanged.", "sources": [ { "label": "2023 ch. 103", "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Statutes/82nd2023/Stats202305.html#Stats202305page509" } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "sb-345", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#sb-345", "date": "2023-09-27", "title": "License forfeited for arresting out-of-state fugitives over health care lawful in California", "type": "Senate Bill 345, Chapter 260, Statutes of 2023", "summary": "Adds Penal Code 1299.02(d). A person authorized to apprehend bail fugitives may not arrest someone admitted to bail in another state for violating that state’s law against sexual or reproductive health care, including abortion, contraception, or gender-affirming care, that is lawful in California. A violation is an infraction with a $5,000 fine, and the violator forfeits and is ineligible for any license under the Private Investigator Act.", "forLicensees": "Investigators who also do bail fugitive recovery can lose the PI license for this kind of arrest.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 345", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB345" }, { "label": "Penal Code 1299.02", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=1299.02." } ] }, { "state": "Alabama", "id": "act-2023-397", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alabama#act-2023-397", "date": "2023-09-01", "title": "Licensing overhaul: agencies, apprentices, experience, two-year continuing education", "type": "Act 2023-397 (HB75)", "summary": "Adds at least 2 years of experience, education, or training, including 120 hours of field experience, to the license requirements, and lists the criminal history background check, already required of all applicants since 2013 (34-25B-3, -13), as a criterion (34-25B-12). Creates the apprentice license and sponsor certification (34-25B-12.1) and agency licensing, with agencies required to be licensed from January 1, 2024 (34-25B-50). Requires license numbers on advertising and business materials (34-25B-14(c)); spells out the penalty for unlicensed practice, already a Class A misdemeanor, as up to $6,000 and 1 year, extends it to apprentices, and adds an administrative fine of up to $1,000 a day (34-25B-10(a), 34-25B-18(d)); and changes continuing education from 8 hours each calendar year to 16 hours, including 2 of ethics, per two-year period (34-25B-26(a)).", "forLicensees": "Continuing education is now counted over the two-year license period, and agencies need their own license.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 2023-397", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/HB75-enr.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Alabama", "id": "act-2023-481", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/alabama#act-2023-481", "date": "2023-09-01", "title": "Electronic stalking crimes for tracking devices", "type": "Act 2023-481 (HB153)", "summary": "Placing an electronic tracking device on another person’s property without the owner’s consent, or except as otherwise authorized by law, is electronic stalking in the second degree, a Class A misdemeanor (13A-6-96). Doing so with intent to surveil, stalk, or harass, or for any other unlawful purpose, is electronic stalking in the first degree, a Class C felony, or a Class B felony if it violates a court order (13A-6-95).", "forLicensees": "Neither offense has an investigator exception; the only carve-outs are the owner’s consent or other authorization by law.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 2023-481", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/HB153-enr.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Texas", "id": "hb-2715", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/texas#hb-2715", "date": "2023-09-01", "title": "Harassment law now covers tracking or following someone", "type": "House Bill 2715, 88th Legislature, Chapter 839", "summary": "Adds Penal Code 42.07(a)(9). It is harassment, with intent to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, or embarrass, to track or monitor another person’s personal property or vehicle without consent, using a tracking device or application or by following the person. Lack of consent is presumed when a protective order or application exists against the actor, or when the person is the actor’s spouse with a divorce petition filed, or a former spouse. Section 42.07 has no exception for licensed investigators. The separate tracking device law, Penal Code 16.06, and its defense for investigators did not change.", "forLicensees": "The offense requires intent to harass. Consent is presumed absent when a protective order or application is against the person doing the tracking, or when the person tracked is that person’s spouse with a divorce petition filed, or a former spouse.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 2715", "url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=HB2715" }, { "label": "Penal Code 42.07", "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/PE/htm/PE.42.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Texas", "id": "hb-3424", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/texas#hb-3424", "date": "2023-09-01", "title": "In-person training and psychological testing for commissioned officers", "type": "House Bill 3424, 88th Legislature, Chapter 1015", "summary": "Requires personal protection officer training (1702.205(b)) and the commissioned security officer handgun proficiency and self-defense course (1702.1675(g)) to be taught in person, and requires commissioned security officer applicants, and current officers at their first renewal, to submit Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory results (1702.163(a)(5), (h)). The Act applies these changes to applications and courses from January 1, 2024.", "forLicensees": "Applies to investigators who also hold a security officer commission or personal protection officer license; investigator licensing alone is unchanged.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 3424", "url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=HB3424" }, { "label": "DPS summary of 2023 laws", "url": "https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/private-security/88th-legislation" } ] }, { "state": "Delaware", "id": "sb-80", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/delaware#sb-80", "date": "2023-08-31", "title": "Licenses may not be denied for immigration or citizenship status", "type": "SS 1 for SB 80, 84 Del. Laws c. 193", "summary": "Adds 29 Del. C. 610: a State agency or board that issues a license, permit, certification, or registration to engage in a profession, occupation, or business may not deny an application because of the applicant’s immigration or citizenship status. An applicant without a Social Security number may provide an alternative identifying number, such as an ITIN, or sign an exemption attestation.", "forLicensees": "The law applies to all State licensing agencies on its face, including the State Police Professional Licensing Section.", "sources": [ { "label": "84 Del. Laws c. 193", "url": "https://delcode.delaware.gov/sessionlaws/ga152/chp193.shtml" } ] }, { "state": "Georgia", "id": "rule-509-4-07", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/georgia#rule-509-4-07", "date": "2023-08-21", "title": "“Similar names” rule repealed", "type": "Final rule, repeal of 509-4-.07", "summary": "The repealed rule barred issuing a company license in a name already issued. Rule 509-4-.03 still bars names that suggest a public law enforcement or government agency, or that contain “police,” “enforcement,” or “federal.”", "forLicensees": "Company name limits in Rule 509-4-.03 still apply.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rule 509-4-.07", "url": "https://rules.sos.ga.gov/gac/509-4-.07" } ] }, { "state": "Wisconsin", "id": "cr-21-056", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/wisconsin#cr-21-056", "date": "2023-08-01", "title": "Reciprocal licenses for service members and spouses", "type": "Final rule", "summary": "Creates SPS 31.037. A reciprocal private detective or private security person license must be granted to a service member, former service member, or the spouse of either who meets the requirements of Wis. Stat. 440.09 (2).", "forLicensees": "Military applicants and spouses can apply through reciprocity.", "sources": [ { "label": "SPS 31", "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/sps/professional_services/030/31.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Illinois", "id": "pa-103-0309", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/illinois#pa-103-0309", "date": "2023-07-28", "title": "Act extended to 2029; email address of record required", "type": "Public Act 103-0309", "summary": "Moved the Act’s repeal date from January 1, 2024 to January 1, 2029. Added a required email address of record, removed the pre-2005 canine odor detection grandfather provisions, and updated provisions on applications, hearings, subpoenas, and the board.", "forLicensees": "Keep a valid mailing address and email address on file with IDFPR and report changes within 14 days. The Act needs another extension before January 1, 2029.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Act text", "url": "https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/publicacts/103/103-0309.htm" }, { "label": "HB 2395 status", "url": "https://www.ilga.gov/ftp/legislation/103/BillStatus/HTML/10300HB2395.html" } ] }, { "state": "Washington", "id": "hb-1696", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/washington#hb-1696", "date": "2023-07-23", "title": "Tracking-device use charged as stalking; investigator defense applies", "type": "HB 1696, 2023 c 461", "summary": "Adds a tracking-device means to the stalking statute, RCW 9A.46.110(1)(a)(iv): knowingly and without consent installing or monitoring an electronic tracking device, or causing one to be installed, placed, or used, to track another person’s location, where learning of it would reasonably cause substantial emotional distress or fear. It repealed the 2022 cyberstalking crime (former RCW 9A.90.130), which had no investigator exception. The existing defense in RCW 9A.46.110(3) for a licensed private investigator acting within the capacity of the license was not changed.", "forLicensees": "Covert tracking is now charged under the stalking statute, whose defense covers licensed investigators acting within the capacity of their license.", "sources": [ { "label": "2023 c 461", "url": "https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1696.SL.pdf" }, { "label": "RCW 9A.46.110", "url": "https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=9A.46.110" } ] }, { "state": "Washington", "id": "mhmda", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/washington#mhmda", "date": "2023-07-23", "title": "My Health My Data Act: geofence and health data sale bans", "type": "ESHB 1155, 2023 c 191 (chapter 19.373 RCW)", "summary": "Makes it unlawful for any person to set a geofence of 2,000 feet or less around an in-person health care provider to identify or track people seeking care, collect their health data, or send them related messages (RCW 19.373.080). From March 31, 2024, it is unlawful for any person to sell consumer health data without a signed authorization (19.373.070). The chapter has no investigator exemption.", "forLicensees": "The geofence and sale bans apply to any person, including investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 19.373 RCW", "url": "https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.373&full=true" } ] }, { "state": "Washington", "id": "eshb-1335", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/washington#eshb-1335", "date": "2023-07-23", "title": "Civil action for doxing", "type": "ESHB 1335, 2023 c 381 (RCW 4.24.792)", "summary": "Creates a civil action for publishing a person’s identifying information without consent, with intent or knowledge that it will be used to harm them or with reckless disregard of that risk, when the publication causes listed harms. Exceptions include providing information to a government agency or company for a legitimate and lawful purpose through a private channel, in good faith. It is not a defense that the information was already public. There is no investigator exception.", "forLicensees": "Delivering information privately to a client that is a business, agency, or other legal entity can fall within an exception when its conditions are met; publishing it does not.", "sources": [ { "label": "RCW 4.24.792", "url": "https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.24.792" } ] }, { "state": "Washington", "id": "hb-1301", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/washington#hb-1301", "date": "2023-07-23", "title": "Periodic review of professional licenses", "type": "HB 1301, 2023 c 412 (chapter 18.410 RCW)", "summary": "Requires the Department of Licensing to review about 10 percent of the professional licenses it regulates each year, covering all of them within 10 years, and recommend whether to terminate, continue, or modify each. Private investigator licenses fall within the cycle; no review of them was found as of October 2026.", "forLicensees": "The Department must notify licensees before a review of their license begins (RCW 18.410.020(2)).", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 18.410 RCW", "url": "https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=18.410&full=true" } ] }, { "state": "New Jersey", "id": "pl-2023-c113", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-jersey#pl-2023-c113", "date": "2023-07-20", "title": "Daniel’s Law amended: mandatory $1,000 minimum damages, assignee suits, and searchable databases", "type": "P.L.2023, c.113 (S3125)", "summary": "Section 6 amends N.J.S.A. 56:8-166.1, under which a person or business must stop disclosing a covered person’s home address or unpublished home telephone number within 10 business days of written notice. The covered person or an assignee may sue; the court shall award actual damages of at least $1,000 per violation; “disclose” includes making the information available in a searchable list or database; and “home telephone number” includes personal cell phones. It also changes “may award” to “shall award” and drops the requirement that a covered person first obtain approval from the Office of Information Privacy before sending a notice. The act also adds child protective investigators to the people covered.", "forLicensees": "An investigator or agency that keeps a covered person’s home address or personal phone number available, including in a searchable database, more than 10 business days after a valid notice can be sued for at least $1,000 per violation.", "sources": [ { "label": "P.L.2023, c.113", "url": "https://pub.njleg.gov/Bills/2022/PL23/113_.HTM" } ] }, { "state": "Florida", "id": "online-training-rules", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/florida#online-training-rules", "date": "2023-07-19", "title": "Live online classroom training allowed", "type": "Final rules, r. 5N-1.132, 5N-1.140, and 5N-1.142", "summary": "Carries out the 2022 online training law (ch. 2022-79). The classroom part of the 28-hour Class G course may be taught in person or by live online instruction on a secure website, with the instructor verifying identity, attendance, and completion. The 8 hours of range training must be in person.", "forLicensees": "The classroom part of firearms training can be taken live online; range time cannot.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rule 5N-1.132", "url": "https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?id=5N-1.132" }, { "label": "Notice of proposed rule", "url": "https://www.flrules.org/Gateway/View_notice.asp?id=27092505" } ] }, { "state": "New Mexico", "id": "rule-2023", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-mexico#rule-2023", "date": "2023-07-18", "title": "Rules implement the 2023 overhaul", "type": "16.48 NMAC amendments, N.M. Register Vol. XXXIV, Issue 13", "summary": "Replaces the $10,000 surety bond with a $1,000,000 general liability certificate for companies (16.48.2.8), sets the psychological evaluation for firearm certification (16.48.2.21), and resets fees, including the investigator employee registration from $75 to $100 (16.48.5.8).", "forLicensees": "Current insurance and fee requirements come from this filing.", "sources": [ { "label": "N.M. Register", "url": "https://www.srca.nm.gov/nmac/nmregister/pdf/xxxiv13.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Oregon", "id": "sb-5542", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/oregon#sb-5542", "date": "2023-07-18", "title": "Legislature approves late and replacement fees", "type": "SB 5542, Oregon Laws 2023 chapter 388", "summary": "Approves a $30 late renewal fee and a $24 replacement license fee adopted by DPSST.", "forLicensees": "The late fee was raised in 2025 ($35) and 2026 ($40); the replacement fee stayed $24 until 2026, when it rose to $27.", "sources": [ { "label": "2023 c.388", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2023orLaw0388.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "California", "id": "ab-2043", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/california#ab-2043", "date": "2023-07-01", "title": "Bail fugitive recovery limited to licensed recovery agents", "type": "Assembly Bill 2043, Chapter 768, Statutes of 2022", "summary": "Repeals and re-adds Penal Code 1299.02. Apart from certified law enforcement officers, only a licensed bail fugitive recovery agent, including a bail licensee or a California-licensed private investigator who also holds that license, may apprehend, detain, or arrest a bail fugitive. Holders of another state’s PI, bail, or bail enforcement license may not do so in California unless they obtain a California bail fugitive recovery agent license. That license, created by Insurance Code 1802.3 and issued by the Department of Insurance, requires a $1,000 surety bond and $1,000,000 in liability insurance (Insurance Code 1802), and a 40-hour power of arrest course before the licensing exam (Insurance Code 1810.7).", "forLicensees": "A PI license alone does not authorize bail fugitive recovery; that takes a bail fugitive recovery agent license from the Department of Insurance.", "sources": [ { "label": "AB 2043", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2043" }, { "label": "Penal Code 1299.02", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=1299.02." } ] }, { "state": "Florida", "id": "ch-2023-155", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/florida#ch-2023-155", "date": "2023-07-01", "title": "Renewal late fee moved from statute to rule", "type": "CS/HB 1307, Chapter 2023-155, Laws of Florida", "summary": "Before this law, s. 493.6113(4) required a late renewal to pay a late fee equal to the license fee. Now a late renewal may be required to pay a late fee set by division rule, up to the license fee. The law also added a Class G training waiver for licensees who show annual firearms training under the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (s. 493.6113(3)(b)4.), new options for firearms instructor (Class K) applicants and renewals, and let FDACS publish industry information online (s. 493.6123(3)).", "forLicensees": "See the October 30, 2024 rule above for the fee amount.", "sources": [ { "label": "Chapter 2023-155", "url": "https://laws.flrules.org/2023/155" }, { "label": "Section 493.6113 (2022)", "url": "https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2022/493.6113" } ] }, { "state": "Georgia", "id": "hb-155", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/georgia#hb-155", "date": "2023-07-01", "title": "License by endorsement for licensees from other states", "type": "House Bill 155, Act 51 (2023)", "summary": "Adds O.C.G.A. 43-1-35(c): a professional licensing board or other board shall issue a license by endorsement to an applicant who has moved to Georgia and established residency, holds a current license in good standing from a state with substantially similar training, experience, and testing, and passes any required Georgia laws and rules exam. SB 195 removed the residency condition in 2024. Firefighters, health care providers, and law enforcement officers are excluded. The section reaches every Title 43 board, including this one (O.C.G.A. 43-1-34 defines “other board”).", "forLicensees": "The Board’s FAQ (archived April 2026) says it does not reciprocate with any other state for licensure and that every company applicant must pass the exam, with no exceptions for licenses held in other states. It does have limited license recognition agreements with eight states that let an investigator licensed there finish a home-state case in Georgia for up to 30 days per case per year.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 155", "url": "https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/63822" } ] }, { "state": "Idaho", "id": "s-1059", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/idaho#s-1059", "date": "2023-07-01", "title": "Public agencies withhold judges’ home addresses on request", "type": "S 1059 (2023), ch. 179 (now Idaho Code 19-6201 to 19-6203)", "summary": "A public agency may not disclose an enrolled judicial officer’s residential address and phone number, except under court order or other listed exceptions; S 1277 (2024) extended the shield to the property’s legal description. The law binds agencies, not private data sources.", "forLicensees": "County deed and agency searches may not reveal enrolled judges’ homes.", "sources": [ { "label": "S 1059", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2023/legislation/S1059/" } ] }, { "state": "Kansas", "id": "sb-217", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/kansas#sb-217", "date": "2023-07-01", "title": "Electronic tracking becomes part of stalking", "type": "SB 217 (2023), L. 2023, ch. 78", "summary": "Adds to the stalking definition of course of conduct “utilizing any electronic tracking system or acquiring tracking information to determine the targeted person’s location, movement or travel patterns” (K.S.A. 21-5427(f)(1)(G)), and allows protective orders that bar it.", "forLicensees": "Kansas has no investigator-specific exception (only conduct necessary for a legitimate purpose independent of making contact with the person is excluded); covert tracking can count toward stalking.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 217", "url": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2023_24/bills/download/?apn=b2023_24/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_217/sb217_enrolled.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Nevada", "id": "ab-356", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/nevada#ab-356", "date": "2023-07-01", "title": "Crime of placing a tracking device on another person’s vehicle", "type": "AB 356, Statutes of Nevada 2023, chapter 190", "summary": "NRS 200.930 makes it a crime to knowingly install, conceal, or place a mobile tracking device in or on another person’s motor vehicle without the knowledge and consent of an owner or lessor. The only exception is for a law enforcement agency acting under the U.S. and Nevada Constitutions and state law. A first offense is a misdemeanor, a second a gross misdemeanor, and a third or later a category C felony.", "forLicensees": "The law has no exception for licensed investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "2023 ch. 190", "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Statutes/82nd2023/Stats202310.html#Stats202310page1109" }, { "label": "NRS 200.930", "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-200.html" } ] }, { "state": "New Mexico", "id": "hb-384", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-mexico#hb-384", "date": "2023-07-01", "title": "Private Investigations Act overhauled", "type": "HB 384 (2023), Laws 2023, ch. 190", "summary": "Limits skip tracing to law enforcement employees, private investigators, and New Mexico attorneys and their supervised employees (61-27B-4(D)), and requires anyone offering traffic crash reconstruction, other than certified officers and New Mexico professional engineers, to be a licensed investigator with an approved course (61-27B-4(C)). Removes the good moral character requirement for investigators, companies, and employees (61-27B-7, -8, -14), replaces the company surety bond with liability insurance (61-27B-8, -24), adds a psychological evaluation before carrying a firearm (61-27B-31), and changes renewal from annual to at least every 2 years (61-27B-21).", "forLicensees": "Skip tracing and crash reconstruction services require a license unless an exception applies.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 384", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/HB0384.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Tennessee", "id": "pc-349", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/tennessee#pc-349", "date": "2023-07-01", "title": "One tracking device placement can count toward stalking", "type": "2023 Public Chapter 349 (SB 1223)", "summary": "Rewrites the “course of conduct” definition in Tenn. Code Ann. 39-17-315(a)(1) to include one instance of placing an electronic tracking device on a person, or in or on the person’s property, without consent. The only exclusion is placement by or at the direction of law enforcement in a lawful criminal investigation; there is no exclusion for private investigators.", "forLicensees": "A single non-consensual tracker placement on a person or their property can support a stalking charge, with no exception for licensed investigators.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Chapter 349", "url": "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0349.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Wyoming", "id": "hb-128", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/wyoming#hb-128", "date": "2023-07-01", "title": "Voyeurism covers viewing within a private area", "type": "HB 128 (2023), ch. 101", "summary": "Extends misdemeanor voyeurism to secretive viewing within, not only into, an area where the person viewed has a reasonable expectation of privacy (W.S. 6-4-304).", "forLicensees": "Being lawfully inside a private space is not a defense to covert viewing.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 128", "url": "https://wyoleg.gov/2023/Enroll/HB0128.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Missouri", "id": "20-csr-2234-3-2023", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/missouri#20-csr-2234-3-2023", "date": "2023-06-30", "title": "Agencies must report departing employees within 10 days", "type": "Final rule", "summary": "An agency must tell the board within ten days, on the board’s form, when an agency investigator employee leaves, including the last day of employment. A departing employee must return the license and pocket card to the agency within five days. As first adopted, a new license application was required whenever an agency employee moved to a different agency; the 2026 amendment above limits that to employees without an active license.", "forLicensees": "File the separation form within ten days of an employee’s last day, and collect the license and pocket card.", "sources": [ { "label": "20 CSR 2234-3", "url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/adrules/csr/current/20csr/20c2234-3.pdf" }, { "label": "Proposed amendments, Missouri Register", "url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/AdRules/moreg/2023/v48n2Jan17/v48n2b.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Tennessee", "id": "rules-2023", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/tennessee#rules-2023", "date": "2023-06-20", "title": "Rules updated to name the commissioner", "type": "Final rule, filing 03-18-23 (1175-01 to 1175-04)", "summary": "Amends the private investigator rules, mainly replacing “Commission” with “Commissioner” after the commission was abolished in 2021. Continuing education hours and fees kept their substance.", "forLicensees": "The commissioner, not a commission, decides licensing, continuing education approval, complaints, and discipline.", "sources": [ { "label": "Rule filing 03-18-23", "url": "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/rules_filings/03-18-23.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Vermont", "id": "act-77", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/vermont#act-77", "date": "2023-06-20", "title": "Investigator license fees raised", "type": "Act 77 (2023), H.305", "summary": "Raised fees in 3 V.S.A. 125(b): unarmed licensee application from $150 to $175 and renewal from $120 to $140; armed licensee application from $200 to $230 and renewal from $180 to $205; agency renewal from $300 to $345. The sole proprietor fee stayed $250.", "forLicensees": "These remain the current fees.", "sources": [ { "label": "Act 77", "url": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/Docs/ACTS/ACT077/ACT077%20As%20Enacted.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "New Mexico", "id": "hb-201", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-mexico#hb-201", "date": "2023-06-16", "title": "Act set to be repealed July 1, 2030", "type": "HB 201 (2023), Laws 2023, ch. 15", "summary": "Terminates the Private Investigations Advisory Board on July 1, 2029 under the Sunset Act and repeals the Private Investigations Act on July 1, 2030 (NMSA 61-27B-36).", "forLicensees": "The Legislature must extend the Act before July 1, 2030.", "sources": [ { "label": "HB 201", "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/HB0201.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "North Carolina", "id": "sl-2023-46", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-carolina#sl-2023-46", "date": "2023-06-16", "title": "Technical corrections to the discipline section", "type": "Session Law 2023-46 (House Bill 103), section 9", "summary": "A technical corrections bill rewrote G.S. 74C-12 in drafting style. It also tied the deadline to report losing a qualifying agent, and to replace one, to the time set in G.S. 74C-8(c) instead of a fixed 30 days.", "forLicensees": "The qualifying agent deadlines now follow 74C-8(c).", "sources": [ { "label": "S.L. 2023-46", "url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/SessionLaws/HTML/2023-2024/SL2023-46.html" } ] }, { "state": "West Virginia", "id": "hb-3479", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/west-virginia#hb-3479", "date": "2023-06-07", "title": "Drone offense for critical infrastructure", "type": "HB 3479 (2023)", "summary": "Creates an offense of operating an unmanned aerial vehicle over critical infrastructure to conduct surveillance or gather information with intent to harm, or to obtain trade secrets (W. Va. Code 61-16-2(b)). The same act added exceptions that apply to the whole section, including the existing ban (61-16-2(a)) on using a drone to capture images of a person or private property in a way that invades a reasonable expectation of privacy: a person may survey their own or leased property, third persons retained by the owner of immovable property may survey that property, and news organizations flying above 400 feet are exempt (61-16-2(c), (e)).", "forLicensees": "Drone surveillance that invades a reasonable expectation of privacy was already a misdemeanor.", "sources": [ { "label": "W. Va. Code 61-16-2", "url": "https://code.wvlegislature.gov/61-16-2/" } ] }, { "state": "Texas", "id": "sb-604", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/texas#sb-604", "date": "2023-05-24", "title": "Landman exemption widened", "type": "Senate Bill 604, 88th Legislature, Chapter 197", "summary": "The Act already exempted a landman acting within the landman’s business (1702.324(b)(8)). SB 604 widened the definition of landman in 1702.324(a) to include anyone who otherwise performs land services as defined in Occupations Code 954.001.", "forLicensees": "Land services work done by someone within the wider landman definition does not need a Texas investigations license.", "sources": [ { "label": "SB 604", "url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=SB604" }, { "label": "Enrolled text", "url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00604F.htm" } ] }, { "state": "Minnesota", "id": "ch-52-2023-fbi", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/minnesota#ch-52-2023-fbi", "date": "2023-05-19", "title": "FBI fingerprint checks for license applicants", "type": "2023 Minn. Laws ch. 52, art. 5, sec. 45", "summary": "Amends Minn. Stat. 326.3381, subd. 3. Applicants must submit fingerprints and consent to a criminal history check by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the FBI. The board decides whether the results show a disqualifying offense. A separate section of the same law (art. 20, sec. 15) added carjacking to the list of disqualifying offenses.", "forLicensees": "New applicants should plan for a national fingerprint check.", "sources": [ { "label": "Session law", "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2023/0/52/" }, { "label": "House Research summary", "url": "https://www.house.mn.gov/hrd/as/93/as052.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Minnesota", "id": "ch-52-2023-board", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/minnesota#ch-52-2023-board", "date": "2023-05-19", "title": "Board enforcement powers; training certificates belong to employees", "type": "2023 Minn. Laws ch. 52, art. 10, secs. 4 to 7", "summary": "The board may investigate and refer for prosecution criminal violations and unlicensed activity. Prior unlicensed operation became grounds to deny, suspend, or revoke a license. Employee identification cards must be presented on request. Preassignment training completed with another Minnesota licensee within the past three calendar years now counts, and an employer must give a current or former employee a free copy of the training certificate on request.", "forLicensees": "Accept valid preassignment training certificates from other Minnesota licensees, and provide certificate copies to employees at no charge.", "sources": [ { "label": "Session law", "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2023/0/52/" }, { "label": "House Research summary", "url": "https://www.house.mn.gov/hrd/as/93/as052.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "West Virginia", "id": "sb-132", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/west-virginia#sb-132", "date": "2023-05-02", "title": "Stalking and harassment labeled as separate offenses", "type": "SB 132 (2023)", "summary": "Labels the existing offenses in W. Va. Code 61-2-9a(a) and (b) as stalking and harassment, retitles the section, and extends the felony for conduct intended to cause self-injury or suicide to stalking. The existing definition of course of conduct, which covers following, monitoring, observing, or surveilling a person by any device or means, is unchanged.", "forLicensees": "The stalking law has no investigator exemption; bills to create a separate tracking device crime died in 2023 and 2024.", "sources": [ { "label": "W. Va. Code 61-2-9a", "url": "https://code.wvlegislature.gov/61-2-9a/" } ] }, { "state": "North Carolina", "id": "cpp-dfe-rules-2023", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/north-carolina#cpp-dfe-rules-2023", "date": "2023-04-28", "title": "Rules for close personal protection and digital forensics licenses", "type": "Temporary, then permanent rules, 14B NCAC 16 .1500 to .1700", "summary": "Carries out S.L. 2022-66, which created close personal protection and digital forensics examiner licenses effective October 1, 2022. The rules set experience and training for each, separate close personal protection from investigations, and create a trainee track for digital forensics associates modeled on the PI associate rules.", "forLicensees": "Digital forensic examination and close personal protection have their own licenses, separate from the PI license.", "sources": [ { "label": "NC Register 37:18", "url": "https://files.nc.gov/oah/documents/2023-03/Volume-37-Issue-18-March-15-2023.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Ohio", "id": "hb-509", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/ohio#hb-509", "date": "2023-04-06", "title": "Photograph and physical description dropped from applications", "type": "House Bill 509, 134th General Assembly", "summary": "Amended ORC 4749.03 to remove the requirement that license applications include a physical description and a recent full-face photograph of the applicant or of each qualifying officer or agent.", "forLicensees": "Applications are slightly simpler. Other application contents and the fingerprint check are unchanged.", "sources": [ { "label": "ORC 4749.03", "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4749.03" }, { "label": "HB 509", "url": "https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/134/hb509" } ] }, { "state": "Tennessee", "id": "pc-72", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/tennessee#pc-72", "date": "2023-03-31", "title": "Department continued to June 30, 2027", "type": "2023 Public Chapter 72 (SB 38)", "summary": "Moves the Department of Commerce and Insurance, which runs the private investigator program, to the list of entities that terminate June 30, 2027 unless continued (Tenn. Code Ann. 4-29-248).", "forLicensees": "Watch the 2027 session for the department’s continuation.", "sources": [ { "label": "Public Chapter 72", "url": "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0072.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "Wyoming", "id": "sf-32", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/wyoming#sf-32", "date": "2023-02-28", "title": "Drone surveillance over prisons made a crime", "type": "SF 32 (2023), ch. 131", "summary": "Bars using a drone over a penal institution or correctional facility or its grounds to photograph, surveil, or record it without authorization (W.S. 6-5-214), a misdemeanor punishable by up to 1 year.", "forLicensees": "Plan drone routes away from correctional facilities.", "sources": [ { "label": "SF 32", "url": "https://wyoleg.gov/2023/Enroll/SF0032.pdf" } ] }, { "state": "New York", "id": "penal-250-images", "url": "https://uscli.org/licensing-tracker/new-york#penal-250-images", "date": "2023-02-26", "title": "New image-dissemination offense widens the licensing bar", "type": "Chapter 805 of the Laws of 2022; amended by Chapter 30 of the Laws of 2023", "summary": "Chapter 805 added Penal Law 250.70 and 250.71, unlawful dissemination of a personal image, and Chapter 30 of 2023 amended them and repealed 250.72. GBL 74(2)(h) and 81(1) bar a license, and employment by a licensee, after a conviction under any section of Penal Law article 250, so the bar now reaches this offense.", "forLicensees": "A conviction under the new sections bars licensing and employment by a licensee, as other article 250 offenses do.", "sources": [ { "label": "Penal Law 250.70", "url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/250.70" }, { "label": "GBL 74", "url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/GBS/74" } ] } ] }