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.