Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

SB 156

Relating to: retired credential status for certain professionals holding credentials granted by the Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, and Professional Land Surveyors; extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)

Administrative rules Architect Engineer Retirement — Private plans Surveying and surveyors Trades and occupations

Introduced, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under this bill, the Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects,

Professional Engineers, Designers, and Professional Land Surveyors must

promulgate rules to allow a credential holder who is at least 65 years of age or has

actively maintained that credential for a minimum of 30 consecutive years and who

has retired from professional practice and no longer engages in that practice to apply

to the board to classify his or her credential as retired. Such a credential holder is

exempt from continuing education requirements and may maintain his or her

professional title but may not engage in the relevant practice. Also, under the bill,

such a credential holder must pay only one-half of the applicable renewal fee to

maintain his or her professional credential.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From DSPS

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 May 23, 2019 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations, Ayes 5, Noes 0