CPAs are trained to be skeptical of unverified sources — so here is exactly how this site's dates are sourced, checked, and kept current. Nothing below is aspirational; it describes the actual standard already applied to every state page.
Every date on this site must trace to two independent things before it's published:
If we can't find or confirm the second source, the date is not published as a confirmed fact. Instead the page says so plainly and points you to the official state board to determine your own exact deadline — we do not guess, interpolate, or infer a date we can't back up with primary law.
A callout shows a Verified badge only when that specific date has a real citation to codified law behind it, checked the way described above. A record without one never shows the badge — there is no in-between state where a date looks confirmed but isn't.
The date shown in each state's trust line is the last time we directly re-checked that state's citation against the primary source text (not just re-read our own notes about it). We periodically re-run an automated check across every cited source looking for two things: a broken or redirected link, and any sign the underlying rule has since been amended. When either turns up, we re-verify by hand before changing anything a visitor sees — an automated flag never silently rewrites a published date by itself.
Some sources are genuinely harder to verify by automated means — a handful of citations point to PDF documents or JavaScript-rendered pages our tooling can't text-extract automatically. Where that's the case, those citations were still individually confirmed by hand at the time they were published; we disclose the tooling gap rather than pretend an easier check covers it. If a rule changes between our checks, use the contact link below to flag it and we'll re-verify and correct it quickly.
CPE hour completion is self-reported wherever this site or its firm tier ever discusses it — we label that clearly and never give it the same "Verified" treatment as a sourced renewal date. We also don't independently verify a state's future policy changes; if a state proposes a new rule that hasn't taken effect yet, we wait for it to become the actual current rule before citing it.
Pick any state page and look for the "Source of record" line under its date — the citation and the "read the rule" link go to the primary legal text, not a summary. That's the same standard behind every date on this site.