How to check
- Open TDI Insurance Licensing on Texas.gov, the Texas Department of Insurance's own search.
- Search by the agent's name, or by their national producer number (NPN) or Texas license number if you have it. The NPN is the steadier search: names repeat, and a producer has one NPN in every state.
- Open the record and read the license type and its lines of authority, whether it is active, the expiration date, and the name on the record.
- Compare it with what the agent told you: the same name, the same NPN, and a line of authority that covers the kind of insurance you asked about.
What the record shows
A producer record in any state is built from the same parts, though each department decides how much of it to publish:
- The license type and its lines of authority, such as property, casualty, life or personal lines.
- Whether the license is active, and the dates it was issued and expires.
- The insurers the agent is appointed with, where the department publishes appointments.
- Disciplinary actions, where the department publishes them.
In Texas the license record is kept by the Texas Department of Insurance. Its public search, TDI Insurance Licensing on Texas.gov, finds an individual agent or an agency. TDI also publishes the same license data as open files on data.texas.gov, refreshed daily, and the counts on this page are read from those files.
The Texas license file has no status column. A row stays in the file after the license it describes has expired, so the expiration date is what tells you whether a license is current. Read the date on the row rather than taking the row itself as proof.
The qualification is the line of authority. In the file, property and casualty appears in two forms: the Property and Casualty qualification on a General Lines Agent license, and the Personal Lines Property and Casualty Agent license, which is limited to personal lines. A County Mutual Agent license is a separate type again.
The city in the file is the city on the license address, which is often an office or a mailing address rather than every place an agent works. Health sits inside the Life, Accident, Health & HMO qualification; InsuranceAgentPick does not route health insurance requests.
What we checked for Texas
- Department
- Texas Department of Insurance (TDI)Source: tdi.texas.gov, checked 2026-09-22
- Official search
- TDI Insurance Licensing, on txapps.texas.govSource: txapps.texas.gov, checked 2026-09-26
- Help line
- 800-252-3439Source: tdi.texas.gov, checked 2026-09-26
- Licenses that sell property and casualty
- General Lines Agent with the Property and Casualty qualification; Personal Lines Property and Casualty Agent, limited to personal linesSource: TDI license file kxv3-diwf, checked 2026-09-26
- Licenses that sell life insurance
- General Lines Agent with the Life, Accident, Health & HMO qualification; Life AgentSource: TDI license file kxv3-diwf, checked 2026-09-26
- Open license data
- Individual licenses (kxv3-diwf), appointments (bupb-23s9), agency associations (kvqi-vsrr) and agency licenses (3yqc-fcdt) on data.texas.gov, updated dailySource: data.texas.gov, checked 2026-09-26
- One row of the license file
- NPN, license number, name, license type, qualification, issue date, expiration date, and the city, state and ZIP code of the license addressSource: TDI license file kxv3-diwf, checked 2026-09-26
- One row of the appointments file
- The insurer's name and NAIC number, the appointment type and the date the appointment took effectSource: TDI appointments file bupb-23s9, checked 2026-09-26
Texas licenses in the TDI file
People with an active producer license whose license address is in Texas, counted once each by NPN.
- people with an active property and casualty qualification
- 104,885
- people with an active life, accident & health license
- 188,506
- people with another producer license, such as county mutual, limited lines or surplus lines
- 18,996
- people with any active producer license
- 258,508
Source: Texas Department of Insurance license file kxv3-diwf, fetched 2026-10-12. Distinct NPNs with an expiration date on or after 2026-10-12. A person with licenses in more than one group is counted in each. Life, accident & health licenses include health, which InsuranceAgentPick does not route.
Questions
Where do I look up an insurance agent's license in Texas?
On TDI Insurance Licensing at txapps.texas.gov, the Texas Department of Insurance's own search. TDI's help line is 800-252-3439.
Which Texas licenses cover property and casualty insurance?
In TDI's license file, a General Lines Agent license with the Property and Casualty qualification, and a Personal Lines Property and Casualty Agent license, which is limited to personal lines.
Does the Texas Department of Insurance publish its license data?
Yes. Individual licenses, appointments, agency associations and agency licenses are open files on data.texas.gov. The license file (kxv3-diwf) was last refreshed on 2026-10-12.
Source: Texas Department of Insurance license file kxv3-diwf, fetched 2026-10-12.
Why does the Texas file still list licenses that have expired?
The file has no status column and keeps rows after they expire. On 2026-10-12, 38,251 of its 971,941 rows had an expiration date in the past, so check the date on the row.
Source: Texas Department of Insurance license file kxv3-diwf, fetched 2026-10-12.
Can I see which insurers a Texas agent is appointed with?
TDI publishes appointments as a separate file (bupb-23s9). Each row names the insurer and its NAIC number, the appointment type and the date the appointment took effect.
Other ways to check
- The National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR) assigns the NPN. Ask the agent for theirs; any licensed producer has one.
- For an agent licensed in several states, check each state on its own department's search. The fifty-state list has every department.
Lookup link last checked 2026-10-12; the department's entry in our list was confirmed on 2026-09-22.