Amend CSSB 697 as follows:
            (1)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, in the introductory
language, between "by" and "adding" (House Committee Printing page
3, between lines 11 and 12), insert "amending Subsection (a)  and".
            (2)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, between the introductory
language and added Subsection (h), Section 20, The Texas
Engineering Practice Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes) (House Committee Printing page 3, between lines 12 and
13), insert the following:
      (a)  The following persons shall be exempt from the licensure
provisions of this Act, provided that such persons are not directly
or indirectly represented or held out to the public to be legally
qualified to engage in the practice of engineering:
            (1)  an employee or a subordinate of a person holding a
license under this Act; provided, his practice does not include
responsible charge of design or supervision;
            (2)  officers and employees of the Government of the
United States while engaged within this state in the practice of
the profession of engineering for said Government;
            (3)  a person doing the actual work of installing,
operating, repairing, or servicing locomotive or stationary
engines, steam boilers, Diesel engines, internal combustion
engines, refrigeration compressors and systems, hoisting engines,
electrical engines, air conditioning equipment and systems, or
mechanical and electrical, electronic or communications equipment
and apparatus; this Act may not be construed to prevent any citizen
from identifying himself in the name and trade of any engineers'
labor organization with which he may be affiliated, however, this
exemption may not be construed to permit any person other than a
licensed professional engineer to affix his signature to
engineering plans, or specifications and may not be construed to
permit a person to use the term "engineer" or "engineering" in any
manner prohibited by this Act;
            (4)  a person, sole proprietorship, firm, partnership,
joint stock association or private corporation, erecting,
constructing, enlarging, altering or repairing, or drawing plans
and specifications for:  any private dwelling, or apartments not
exceeding eight units per building for one story buildings, or
apartments not exceeding four units per building and having a
maximum height of two stories, or garages or other structures
pertinent to such buildings; or private buildings which are to be
used exclusively for farm, ranch or agricultural purposes, or used
exclusively for storage of raw agricultural commodities; or other
buildings, except public buildings included under Section 19 of
this Act, having no more than one story and containing no clear
span between supporting structures greater than 24 feet on the
narrow side and having a total floor area not in excess of five
thousand square feet; provided that on unsupported spans greater
than 24 feet on such buildings only the trusses, beams, or other
roof supporting members need to be engineered or pre-engineered;
provided that no representation is made or implied that engineering
services have been or will be offered to the public;
            (5)  any regular full time employee of a private
corporation or other private business entity who is engaged solely
and exclusively in performing services for such corporation and/or
its affiliates; provided, such employee's services are on, or in
connection with, property owned or leased by such private
corporation and/or its affiliates or other private business entity,
or in which such private corporation and/or its affiliates or other
business entity has an interest, estate or possessory right, or
whose services affect exclusively the property, products, or
interests of such private corporation and/or its affiliates or
other private business entity; and, provided further, that such
employee does not have the final authority for the approval of, and
the ultimate responsibility for, engineering designs, plans or
specifications pertaining to such property or products which are to
be incorporated into fixed works, systems, or facilities on the
property of others or which are to be made available to the general
public.  This exemption includes the use of job titles and
personnel classifications by such persons not in connection with
any offer of engineering services to the public, providing that no
name, title, or words are used which tend to convey the impression
that an unlicensed person is offering engineering services to the
public;
            (6)  any regular full time employee of a privately
owned public utility or cooperative utility and/or affiliates who
is engaged solely and exclusively in performing services for such
utility and/or its affiliates; provided, that such employee does
not have the final authority for the approval of, and the ultimate
responsibility for engineering designs, plans or specifications to
be incorporated into fixed works, systems, or facilities on the
property of others or which are to be made available to the general
public.  This exemption includes the use of job titles and
personnel classifications by such persons not in connection with
any offer of engineering services to  the public, providing that no
name, title, or words are used which tend to convey the impression
that an unlicensed person is offering engineering services to the
public; <or>
            (7)  qualified scientists engaged in scientific
research and investigation of the physical or natural sciences,
including the usual work and activities of meteorologists,
seismologists, geologists, chemists,   geochemists, physicists an
geophysicists; or
            (8)  qualified scientists engaged in the polymeric
sciences.