By: Hughes S.B. No. 681

(In the Senate - Filed December 19, 2024; February 3, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce; March 19, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; March 19, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 681 By: Kolkhorst

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the renewal of an engineering license or registration.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter H, Chapter 1001, Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows:

SUBCHAPTER H. ENGINEERING LICENSE OR REGISTRATION RENEWAL

SECTION 2. The heading to Section 1001.351, Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 1001.351. LICENSE OR REGISTRATION [ANNUAL] RENEWAL [REQUIRED].

SECTION 3. Section 1001.351(a), Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The board shall adopt rules providing for the [provide for the annual] renewal of a license or registration issued under this chapter. The rules must provide that a license or registration issued under this chapter is valid for a term of not less than two years.

SECTION 4. Section 1001.405(d), Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows:

(d) The registration of a business entity issued under this section is valid for the term provided by board rule adopted under Section 1001.351 and [expires on the first anniversary of the date the registration is issued. The registration] may be renewed by the filing of an updated application under Subsection (c).

SECTION 5. As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act, the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors shall adopt rules to implement Section 1001.351(a), Occupations Code, as amended by this Act.

SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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