Amend SB 1797 by adding the following sections, appropriately
numbered, and renumbering the sections of the bill accordingly:
      SECTION 2. Section 2(4), 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, 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).
      SECTION ____. Section 12(c), The Texas Engineering Practice
Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
read as follows:
      (c)  In considering the qualifications of applicants,
<responsible charge of> engineering teaching may not be construed
as active practice in <responsible charge of> engineering work.
The mere execution, as a contractor, of work designed by a
professional engineer, or the supervision of the construction of
such work as foreman or superintendent shall not be deemed to be
active practice in engineering work.
      SECTION ____. The change in law made by this Act to Section
12(c), The Texas Engineering Practice Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's
Texas Civil Statutes), applies only to a person who begins the
teaching of engineering on or after September 1, 2001.  A person
who has engaged in the teaching of engineering before that date is
governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.