Texas Comptroller Manual of Accounts - Fiscal 2025
Revenue Object 3175 – Professional Fees – Plumbers

1. The board shall establish fees for licensing, endorsing or registering master plumbers, journeymen plumbers, plumbing inspectors, and provisional licenses in amounts sufficient to pay costs of administering certification program.
2. The board may issue to a master or journeyman plumber an endorsement as a water supply protection specialist or a medical gas piping installer. Fees shall be established by the board.
3. The board may issue an endorsement to a master or journeyman plumber as a multipurpose residential fire protection sprinkler specialist upon payment of a fee set by the board. See revenue code 3175 (Fire Protection Sprinkler Systems).
4. The board may issue and set a fee for a temporary license.

Renewal fees: 90 days or less - 1 1/2 times of the normal renewal fee; 90 days but less than 2 years - 2 times of the normal renewal fee; over 2 years - may not renew; must reapply.

(1) Annual renewal. The board may adopt staggered renewal system for license registration or endorsement.

(2) and (3) Renewable on the date the master or journeyman plumber license expires. 

(4) Expires in 30 days.

Previously deposited to the Plumbing Examiners Fund Account (0077), abolished August 31, 1995 per § 403.094, Government Code.

(2) added by S.B. 813, 73rd Leg., R.S.

Amended by H.B. 1505 and H.B. 2912, 77th Leg., R.S.

Amended by S.B. 282, 78th Leg., R.S.

(3) added by S.B. 1410, 81st Leg., R.S.

(4) added, and renewal dates changed from 3 years, by H.B. 636, 87th Leg., R.S.