Amend CSHB 1523 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  In ARTICLE 1 of the bill, add the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumber subsequent sections of that article accordingly:

SECTION 1.____. Section 1071.254(a), Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  An applicant for registration as a registered professional land surveyor must:

(1)  hold a certificate as a surveyor-in-training;

(2)  have as least two years of experience satisfactory to the board as a surveyor-in-training in performing surveying in delegated responsible charge as a subordinate to a surveyor registered or licensed to engage in the practice of surveying in this state or in another state having registration or licensing requirements equivalent to the requirements of this state; and

(3)  [if the application is filed after January 1, 2003,] have earned an associate or [a] bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education that included at least 16 [32] semester hours in a combination of courses acceptable to the board in:

(A)  civil engineering;

(B)  land surveying;

(C)  mathematics;

(D)  photogrammetry;

(E)  forestry;

(F)  land law; or

(G)  the physical sciences.

(2)  In ARTICLE 3 of the bill, add the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumber subsequent sections of that article accordingly:

SECTION 3.____. Section 1071.254(a), Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to an application for registration as a registered professional land surveyor that is filed on or after the effective date of this Act. An application for a registration that was filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the application was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.