The Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation has released their 2025-2029 Strategic Plan and the Supplemental Schedules that contain information about the agency’s budget structure, performance measure definitions and the results of our customer service survey.
The TDLR Strategic Plan covers the agency’s priorities for the legislative session that begins in January 2025, including:
- Seeking continued funding for the Legacy Systems Replacement Project. The acquisition of a new licensing system will eliminate the inefficiencies and redundancies of TDLR’s antiquated and disparate legacy systems.
- Providing for an omnibus advisory board clean-up bill that would amend the advisory board language for TDLR-regulated programs that have advisory boards. This would allow TDLR to make the number of members of each board, the types of members, and the terms they serve more consistent, allowing for greater efficiency in the administration, oversight, and support of our 33 advisory boards.
- Creating a statutory provision that allows TDLR to work with the Texas Education Agency to support career and technology education (CTE) programs and explore the development of apprenticeship programs. TDLR would be able to assist with the establishment of career and technology programs focusing on our regulated industries that have large numbers of licensees retiring and that lack newly trained, licensed professionals.
The plan also includes several agency goals during the next four years:
- Procuring and successfully implementing the Legacy Systems Replacement Project to modernize TDLR’s outdated licensing software systems. TDLR currently relies on multiple disparate software systems to carry out its licensing functions. Most of those systems are based on antiquated technologies that are at or near the end of their utility and do not meet modern standards for functionality or security. TDLR inherited many of these systems when the Legislature transferred regulatory programs from other agencies. These multiple disconnected systems present significant roadblocks to operational efficiency, data security, data quality and TDLR’s ability to provide customer service.
- Expanding training and licensing opportunities for career and technical education (CTE) in high schools and community colleges. This summer, TDLR will complete rulemaking for H.B. 1859 and H.B. 1391, 88th Legislature, to expand training and job opportunities for young people seeking careers in electrical and HVAC fields, and will continue to gather input and feedback from schools, educators, industry members, and legislators about additional opportunities to expand CTE, including Government Code Chapter 51 authority for TDLR to establish apprenticeship programs.
- Successfully implementing a regulatory environment for Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) across the state of Texas to standardize and ensure public safety for this emerging technology.