Hail-Belt Reroof Rules, State by State: CO, TX, KS, OK, MO, NE

Two states register roofers: Kansas and Oklahoma

Kansas has run a mandatory roofing registration since July 1, 2013, under the Kansas Roofing Registration Act — unusually, it is administered by the Attorney General, not a licensing board. The statute is blunt: "No person shall engage in the business of or act in the capacity of a roofing contractor within this state without having a valid registration certificate" (K.S.A. 50-6,123), and the AG publishes a public roofer registry. Cities layer on top: Lenexa's own reroof summary requires a Johnson County contractor license, a Lenexa business license, and current state roofer registration — a triple stack for one roof.

Oklahoma's CIB-administered Roofing Contractor Registration Act (since 2010) requires annual registration with $500,000/$1,000,000 insurance minimums, bars cities from adding their own roofing registrations, and phases in a residential endorsement exam through January 2028 — covered in depth in the Oklahoma registration guide.

Three states have no statewide roofing credential at all

Colorado licenses only electricians and plumbers at the state level — DORA's own licensing pages list no roofing or general-contractor program — so roofing regulation lives entirely with cities and counties, from Denver's licensing to the SAFEbuilt-administered towns. Texas is the same at the trade level (the TDLR's licensed-program list contains no roofing), with one narrow exception: in the designated coastal counties, TDI's windstorm inspection program (WPI-8 certificates) functionally regulates roof-replacement workmanship as a condition of TWIA windstorm coverage — a certificate regime, not a license. Missouri also has no statewide contractor or roofing credential; its state layer is instead a consumer-protection statute, RSMo 407.725, which bans contractors from advertising or rebating insurance deductibles and gives homeowners five business days to cancel after a claim denial.

In all three, the city-by-city split is where the action is — see the DFW city-by-city guide and the permit-exempt facet hub for who requires what.

Nebraska: generic registration, and a county that banned hail re-covers

Nebraska requires contractors of every trade to register with the Department of Labor under the Contractor Registration Act — trade-generic, with workers'-compensation proof and a modest fee, so it vets existence rather than roofing competence. The sharper Nebraska story is local: Sarpy County (Omaha's southern suburbs) amended its 2018 IRC adoption in 2024 so that asphalt-shingle roofs in areas subject to "moderate or severe hail exposure" per the code's own hail map cannot be re-covered — a full tear-off and replacement is required instead of layering new shingles over old (Resolution 2024-150, Exhibit B, amending R907.3). It is the most explicit anti-re-cover hail rule in the covered corpus, and it sits one county over from Lincoln, where shingling over solid sheathing needs no permit at all.

What this means when a storm crosses state lines

A crew following a hail swath from Wichita into Oklahoma City crosses from an AG-registered state into a CIB-registered one — two separate registrations, two registries to check. The same crew working the Kansas City metro faces Kansas registration on one side of State Line Road and none on the other, where Missouri's 407.725 cancellation rights and each city's permit rules are the only guardrails. For homeowners the checklist is short: verify the state registration where one exists (Kansas AG registry; Oklahoma CIB registry), then check the city's own permit rule in the directory — every covered jurisdiction's sourced record lives under roofing permits by county and attribute, and the licensing facet hub lists every jurisdiction whose own pages require contractor registration.