Amend CSSB 697, house committee printing, as follows:
      (1)  Insert a new SECTION 1 of the bill (page 1, between
lines 4 and 5), to read as follows:
      SECTION 1.  Subdivision (4), Section 2, The Texas Engineering
Practice Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is
amended to read as follows:
            (4)  "Practice of engineering," or "practice of
professional engineering" shall mean any service or creative work,
either public or private, the adequate performance of which
requires engineering education, training and experience in the
application of special knowledge or judgment of the mathematical,
physical, or engineering sciences to such services or creative
work.
      To the extent the following services or types of creative
work meet this definition, the term includes consultation,
investigation, evaluation, analysis, planning, engineering for
program management, providing an expert engineering opinion or
testimony, engineering for testing or evaluating materials for
construction and other engineering uses, performing technical
research on projects fully or partially underwritten by a
non-public entity, and mapping; design, conceptual design, or
conceptual design coordination of engineering works and systems;
development or optimization of plans and specifications for
engineering works and systems; planning the use or alteration of
land and water or the design or analysis of works or systems for
the use or alteration of land and water; teaching advanced
engineering subjects; performing engineering surveys and studies;
engineering for construction, alteration, or repair of real
property; engineering for preparation of operating and maintenance
manuals; and engineering for review of the construction or
installation of engineered works to monitor compliance with
drawings and specifications.
      The activities included in the practice of engineering
include services, designs, analyses, or other work performed for a
public or private entity in connection with utilities, structures,
buildings, machines, equipment, processes, systems, works,
projects, and industrial or consumer products or equipment of a
mechanical, electrical, electronic, chemical, hydraulic, pneumatic,
geotechnical, or thermal nature and include other professional
services necessary for the planning, progress, and completion of
any engineering service.
      In this subdivision:
                  (A)  "Design coordination" includes the review
and coordination of technical submissions prepared by others,
including the work of other professionals working with or under the
direction of an engineer with due professional regard for the
abilities of all professional parties involved in a
multidisciplinary effort.
                  (B)  "Engineering surveys" includes all survey
activities required to support the sound conception, planning,
design, construction, maintenance, and operation of an engineered
project, but does not include the surveying of real property and
other activities regulated under the Professional Land Surveying
Practices Act (Article 5282c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
      (2)  Renumber the subsequent SECTIONS of the bill
appropriately.