By Chavez H.B. No. 2880
76R4650 SMH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of the title "professional engineer" by a
1-3 professional recording engineer.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 1.2, The Texas Engineering Practice Act
1-6 (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
1-7 as follows:
1-8 Sec. 1.2. (a) From and after the effective date of this
1-9 Act, unless duly licensed in accordance with the provisions of this
1-10 Act, no person in this state shall:
1-11 (1) Practice, continue to practice, offer or attempt
1-12 to practice engineering or any branch or part thereof.
1-13 (2) Directly or indirectly, employ, use, cause to be
1-14 used or make use of any of the following terms or any combinations,
1-15 variations or abbreviations thereof as a professional, business or
1-16 commercial identification, title, name, representation, claim,
1-17 asset or means of advantage or benefit: "engineer," "professional
1-18 engineer," "licensed engineer," "registered engineer," "registered
1-19 professional engineer," "licensed professional engineer,"
1-20 "engineered."
1-21 (3) Directly or indirectly, employ, use, cause to be
1-22 used or make use of any letter, abbreviation, word, symbol, slogan,
1-23 sign or any combinations or variations thereof, which in any manner
1-24 whatsoever tends or is likely to create any impression with the
2-1 public or any member thereof that any person is qualified or
2-2 authorized to practice engineering unless such person is duly
2-3 licensed under and practicing in accordance with the provisions of
2-4 this Act.
2-5 (4) Receive any fee or compensation or the promise of
2-6 any fee or compensation for performing, offering or attempting to
2-7 perform any service, work, act or thing which is any part of the
2-8 practice of engineering as defined by this Act.
2-9 (b) Within the intent and meaning and for all purposes of
2-10 this Act, any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation
2-11 which shall do, offer or attempt to do any one or more of the acts
2-12 or things set forth under Subsection (a) [in numbered paragraphs
2-13 (1), (2), (3) or (4)] of this section [Section 1.2] shall be
2-14 conclusively presumed and regarded as engaged in the practice of
2-15 engineering.
2-16 (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(2) of this section, a
2-17 professional recording engineer may use the title "professional
2-18 engineer" without being licensed under this Act and is not engaged
2-19 in the practice of engineering.
2-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-26 passage, and it is so enacted.