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S.F. No. 1790 - Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience, and Interior Design Professions Licensing
 
Author: Senator Roger Reinert
 
Prepared By: Stephanie James, Senate Counsel (651/296-0103)
 
Date: March 24, 2014



 

Section 1 [Practice of Professional Engineering] prohibits use of certain words and abbreviations by any person who is not licensed as a professional engineer.  Unless licensed, a person may not use the term “professional engineer” or certain abbreviations that would lead the public to believe that a person was a professional engineer or use any other means to represent oneself as a professional engineer.

Section 2 [Practice of Land Surveying] adds certain practices to the definition of “practice of land surveying.”

Section 3 [Board Established] strikes provisions with due dates that have passed.

Section 4 [Issuance] strikes a temporary licensing process that applied for the first year after the board established rules for licensing, now past.

Section 5 [Needs of Physically Disabled, Inclusion in Examination] strikes the requirement that the board, in consultation with the Department of Administration, develop questions for examination of architects, civil structural engineers, landscape architects, and certified interior designers that require the applicant to demonstrate knowledge of design needs of people with physical disabilities.

Section 6 [Engineer, Land Surveyor, Geoscientist; In-Training] strikes a reference to the Engineers’ Council for Professional Development as the accreditor for an engineering curriculum.

Section 7 [Reinstatement of Expired License or Certificate] sets a maximum of 48 hours of professional development as a requirement for continuing education requirements to reinstate an expired license or certificate.

Section 8 [Requirements] requires two hours of professional ethics as part of the 24 professional development hours required biennially of licensed professional engineers, architects, professional engineers, land surveyors, landscape architects, geoscientists, and interior designers.  Ethics hours cannot be carried over from one biennium to the next.

Section 9 [Programs and Activities] restricts teaching hours from being carried over from one biennium to the next for purposes of accounting for professional development hours.  Restricts the number of hours to ten for service on boards, commissions, and committees that a licensee can count towards professional development hours.  Time spent serving on boards cannot be carried over from one biennium to the next.

Section 10 [Reports and Records] changes the time that licensees and certificate holders must retain records regarding professional development courses and activities.

Section 11 [Cease and Desist Orders] permits the board to issue a cease and desist order to stop someone from using the titles architect, professional engineer, land surveyor, landscape architect, professional geologist, or professional soil scientist.

Section 12 [Seal] eliminates requirement that a seal be a design approved by the board.

Section 13 [Repealer] repeals a provision that permitted credit for continuing education requirement when an applicant for a license or certificate was an individual licensed in another state.

 
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