State-wide mandates considered. The following criteria are all required at the state level for points to be assigned for this report:

• The NEC^® edition adopted (current = 2017 NEC^® issued on 8/4/2016)
• Licensing/certification required for Apprentice, Journeyman, Master/Contractor, Inspector, and Engineer
• Continuing Education (CEU or PDH) required for license renewal

What's not included in our report.

• County and Municipality adoptions. We recognize that there are many local adoptions, and that in many cases county and municipalities adopt the most recent building and electrical codes ahead of their State. The scope of anything other than state-wide mandated requirements is beyond this report.
• Enforcement or effectiveness. We are unaware of a way to track or correlate these scores with safety in terms of rates of incidents or accidents.

Congratulations!

• To Massachusetts for being an early adopter of the 2017 NEC.
• To all those states, counties and local municipalities that continue to set high standards in electrical safety. There are 23 states that have started the review process for the adoption of the 2017 NEC.
• "A" Ranking states: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming.

We'd appreciate your feedback.

If you have any updated information that you feel would change our rankings on this year's report, please post your comment - we appreciate your input to help keep this analysis accurate and current.

For history and details of how grades are calculated, click here.

Note: All 12 points are required for an A+ grade. States that have not adopted a newer edition of the NEC or a new state requirement since the last report have dropped a grade.

Click here for history and details of how the points are assigned.