By Madden                                              H.B. No. 201
       74R1824 PB-F
                                 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 January 1, 2003,
   1-11  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  January 1, 2003, must hold an earned bachelor's degree conferred by
    2-1  an accredited institution of higher education and including at
    2-2  least 32 semester hours of study, in any combination of courses
    2-3  acceptable to the board, in civil engineering, land surveying,
    2-4  mathematics, photogrammetry, forestry, land law, or the physical
    2-5  sciences.
    2-6        (e)  An applicant who applies for certification as a
    2-7  surveyor-in-training must:
    2-8              (1)  have an earned bachelor of science degree in
    2-9  surveying conferred by an accredited institution of higher
   2-10  education;
   2-11              (2)  have an earned bachelor's <bachelor of science>
   2-12  degree <in another course of study,> conferred by an accredited
   2-13  institution of higher education and including at least 32 semester
   2-14  hours, in any combination of courses acceptable to the board, in
   2-15  civil engineering, land surveying, mathematics, photogrammetry,
   2-16  forestry, land law, or the physical sciences, and have at least one
   2-17  year of experience acceptable to the board in delegated responsible
   2-18  charge as a subordinate to a registered professional land surveyor
   2-19  actively engaged in the practice of professional land surveying;
   2-20              (3)  have an earned associate degree in surveying
   2-21  conferred by an accredited institution of higher education and have
   2-22  at least two years of experience acceptable to the board in
   2-23  delegated responsible charge as a subordinate to a registered
   2-24  professional land surveyor actively engaged in the practice of
   2-25  professional land surveying;
   2-26              (4)  have successfully completed a course of
   2-27  instruction composed of 32 semester hours in land surveying or the
    3-1  equivalent number of semester hours in board-approved courses
    3-2  related to surveying and have at least two years of experience
    3-3  acceptable to the board in delegated responsible charge as a
    3-4  subordinate to a registered professional land surveyor actively
    3-5  engaged in the practice of professional land surveying; or
    3-6              (5)  have graduated from an accredited high school,
    3-7  have at least four years of experience acceptable to the board in
    3-8  delegated responsible charge as a subordinate to a registered
    3-9  professional land surveyor actively engaged in the practice of
   3-10  professional land surveying, and present evidence satisfactory to
   3-11  the board that the applicant is self-educated in professional land
   3-12  surveying.
   3-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   3-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.