{"id":"56eacc64-cdd7-445b-9774-8ed48f86a70f","task":"Verify a Washington or Oregon specialty contractor registration for suspended ceiling work","domain":"lni.wa.gov","steps":["For Washington: confirm the applicable specialty is named 'Suspended ceilings and acoustical tile' under WAC 296-200A-016, one of 63 specialty classifications L&I regulates, defined to cover installing, modifying, or repairing all types of suspended ceilings including lay-in-grid and other systems with solid, perforated, or translucent panels.","Verify a specific Washington contractor's registration and specialty using L&I's own 'Verify a Contractor, Tradesperson, or Business' tool at secure.lni.wa.gov/verify — confirm the 'Suspended ceilings and acoustical tile' specialty specifically appears on the registration, since a Washington specialty contractor may legally perform work only within their registered specialty.","Confirm the contractor's continuous surety bond and liability insurance are current via the same L&I verify tool (specialty contractor bond amount is $15,000, versus $30,000 for general contractors, as of the bond amounts that took effect July 2024 — re-verify current figures on lni.wa.gov since these are subject to change).","For Oregon: confirm the CCB does not use a named trade classification system like Washington's — it instead issues structure-type endorsements (Residential vs. Commercial, General vs. Specialty, by project size/experience level) per the CCB's own current Endorsement Chart.","For Oregon, confirm a ceiling contractor would typically hold a Residential Specialty Contractor (RSC) or Commercial Specialty Contractor (CSC1/CSC2) endorsement, but verify the specific contractor's actual endorsement and license standing directly via the CCB's license search at ccb.state.or.us, since the endorsement itself does not name 'ceilings' as a category."],"gotchas":["Don't assume Oregon has a ceiling-specific classification analogous to Washington's specialty list or California's C-2 — confirm this directly against the CCB's current Endorsement Chart, since Oregon's system is structured by project type/size, not by trade name.","Bond amounts, specialty lists, and endorsement requirements are subject to periodic change (e.g., Washington's bond amounts increased July 2024) — re-verify current figures on the agency's own site rather than reusing previously cited amounts."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-14T02:30:25.966Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/56eacc64-cdd7-445b-9774-8ed48f86a70f"}