Free practice questions for Louisiana's Business and Law exam — the test every LSLBC license applicant takes in the Contractor Licensing Portal — with a written explanation on every answer, in English, Spanish, and Russian.
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The full Louisiana course is 500 questions across 5 blocks and 31 sections, written from the LSLBC's own blue book — the Contractors Licensing Law (La. R.S. 37:2150–2165) and the board's rules in LAC 46:XXIX, August 1, 2025 edition.
Exam structure, topics, study areas and official resources.
Every Louisiana license applicant takes the Business and Law exam. After the LSLBC approves the application, the qualifying party completes the required online Business and Law course in the Contractor Portal and then takes the exam from the same portal: 50 questions, about 30 to 45 minutes, a score of 70 or above to pass. Trade exams moved to PSI on August 5, 2025; this one did not. Practice it in the free sample above — no sign-up, with a written explanation on every question.
Louisiana licensing runs through the State Licensing Board for Contractors. You file the application, upload documents and pay the fees; the board reviews and, if trade exams are required for the classifications you asked for — or if your qualifying party has never taken the Louisiana Business and Law course — it emails an Examination Approval Notice. The qualifying party then completes the online Business and Law course in the LSLBC Contractor Portal and takes the exam from the same portal: a 50-question test that takes about 30 to 45 minutes, with a score of 70 or above to pass. Trade examinations are a separate track: they transitioned to PSI Services on August 5, 2025 and are scheduled through PSI's Louisiana site.
Louisiana does not license "contractors" in the abstract — it licenses work above a value. The Contractors Licensing Law puts commercial contracting at a project value of fifty thousand dollars or more, and the board's rules repeat that a license is required when project cost exceeds $50,000 except where otherwise noted. The exceptions are where the exam lives. Improvements or repairs to an existing residential structure count from $7,500, and so does mold remediation. Residential construction of structures not more than three floors in height counts from $50,000. And a contractor in the hazardous materials classification is defined in terms of work for which the project value is one dollar or more — there is no small asbestos job. Home improvement contracting has its own band beginning at $7,500, and its own hard limit: no structural work, with footings, foundations, outside walls, skeleton, bearing columns, interior load-bearing walls, floor slabs and roofing systems named in the statute.
The qualifying party is a natural person — never a company — designated to represent the contractor in meeting the licensing requirements, for the initial licence and any continuation of it. Contracts get their own chapter: home improvement contracting requires a written contract, and there are prohibited acts around property-insurance claims. Enforcement carries real numbers: under La. R.S. 37:2163, engaging in the business of contracting without an active licence is a misdemeanour punishable on conviction by a fine of up to five hundred dollars per day of violation, three months in prison, or both — the penalty grows with the length of the job, not its price. Separate provisions cover civil penalties, cease and desist orders, debarment and the board's hearing process.
The material is one book: the LSLBC's "blue book", which prints the Contractors Licensing Law (La. R.S. 37:2150–2165) together with the board's rules (LAC 46:XXIX). Read the definitions section first — most exam questions are definition questions wearing work clothes — then the classification list with its per-classification thresholds, then enforcement. Because the exam is 50 questions in 30 to 45 minutes, recognition matters more than recall: you want to have seen each rule phrased as a question before test day. The full LICENA Louisiana course is 500 questions across five blocks that follow the book's own structure, with a written explanation on every answer.
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