By Madden H.B. No. 201
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 201:
By Dear C.S.H.B. No. 201
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain requirements for registration or certification
1-3 by the Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 15, Professional Land Surveying Practices
1-6 Act (Article 5282c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
1-7 amending Subsections (c) and (e) and by adding Subsection (d) to
1-8 read as follows:
1-9 (c) An applicant who applies for registration as a
1-10 registered professional land surveyor on or before September 1,
1-11 1997, must:
1-12 (1) hold a valid certificate as a
1-13 surveyor-in-training; and
1-14 (2) have at least two years of experience as a
1-15 surveyor-in-training of a character satisfactory to the board in
1-16 the performance of surveying in delegated responsible charge as a
1-17 subordinate to a surveyor registered or licensed to engage in the
1-18 practice of surveying in this state or another state whose
1-19 requirements for registration or licensure are equivalent to those
1-20 of this state.
1-21 (d) In addition to compliance with the requirements imposed
1-22 under Subsection (c) of this section, an applicant who applies for
1-23 registration as a registered professional land surveyor after
1-24 September 1, 1997, must have met the educational requirements
2-1 enumerated in Subsection (e)(1), (e)(2), or (e)(3) of this Section.
2-2 (e) An applicant who applies for certification as a
2-3 surveyor-in-training must:
2-4 (1) have an earned bachelor of science degree in
2-5 surveying conferred by an accredited institution of higher
2-6 education;
2-7 (2) have an earned bachelor's <bachelor of science>
2-8 degree <in another course of study,> conferred by an accredited
2-9 institution of higher education and including at least 32 semester
2-10 hours, in any combination of courses acceptable to the board, in
2-11 civil engineering, land surveying, mathematics, photogrammetry,
2-12 forestry, land law, or the physical sciences, and have at least one
2-13 year of experience acceptable to the board in delegated responsible
2-14 charge as a subordinate to a registered professional land surveyor
2-15 actively engaged in the practice of professional land surveying;
2-16 (3) have an earned associate degree <in surveying>
2-17 conferred by an accredited institution of higher education and
2-18 including at least 32 semester hours, in any combination acceptable
2-19 to the board, in civil engineering, land surveying, mathematics,
2-20 photogrammetry, forestry, land law, or the physical sciences, and
2-21 have at least four <two> years of experience acceptable to the
2-22 board in delegated responsible charge as a subordinate to a
2-23 registered professional land surveyor actively engaged in the
2-24 practice of professional land surveying;
2-25 (4) have successfully completed a course of
2-26 instruction composed of 32 semester hours in land surveying or the
2-27 equivalent number of semester hours in board-approved courses
3-1 related to surveying and have at least six <two> years of
3-2 experience acceptable to the board in delegated responsible charge
3-3 as a subordinate to a registered professional land surveyor
3-4 actively engaged in the practice of professional land surveying; or
3-5 (5) have graduated from an accredited high school,
3-6 have at least ten <four> years of experience acceptable to the
3-7 board in delegated responsible charge as a subordinate to a
3-8 registered professional land surveyor actively engaged in the
3-9 practice of professional land surveying, and present evidence
3-10 satisfactory to the board that the applicant is self-educated in
3-11 professional land surveying.
3-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
3-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.