House
Study
Bill
669
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Introduced
SENATE/HOUSE
FILE
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BY
(PROPOSED
DEPARTMENT
OF
COMMERCE/BANKING
DIVISION
BILL)
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
relating
to
the
composition
of
the
engineering
and
land
1
surveying
examining
board.
2
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
542B.3,
Code
2018,
is
amended
to
read
as
1
follows:
2
542B.3
Engineering
and
land
surveying
examining
board
3
created.
4
An
engineering
and
land
surveying
examining
board
is
created
5
within
the
professional
licensing
and
regulation
bureau
of
the
6
banking
division
of
the
department
of
commerce.
The
board
7
consists
of
four
three
members
who
are
licensed
professional
8
engineers,
one
member
who
is
a
two
members
who
are
licensed
9
professional
land
surveyor
or
a
professional
engineer
who
is
10
also
a
licensed
professional
land
surveyor
surveyors
,
and
11
two
members
who
are
not
licensed
professional
engineers
or
12
licensed
professional
land
surveyors
and
who
shall
represent
13
the
general
public.
An
individual
who
is
licensed
as
both
14
a
professional
engineer
and
a
professional
land
surveyor
may
15
serve
to
satisfy
the
board
membership
requirement
for
either
16
a
licensed
professional
engineer
or
a
licensed
professional
17
land
surveyor,
but
not
both.
Members
shall
be
appointed
18
by
the
governor
subject
to
confirmation
by
the
senate.
A
19
licensed
member
shall
be
actively
engaged
in
the
practice
of
20
engineering
or
land
surveying
and
shall
have
been
so
engaged
21
for
five
years
preceding
the
appointment,
the
last
two
of
which
22
shall
have
been
in
Iowa.
Insofar
as
practicable,
licensed
23
engineer
members
of
the
board
shall
be
from
different
branches
24
of
the
profession
of
engineering.
Professional
associations
25
or
societies
composed
of
licensed
engineers
or
licensed
land
26
surveyors
may
recommend
the
names
of
potential
board
members
27
whose
profession
is
representative
of
that
association
or
28
society
to
the
governor.
However,
the
governor
is
not
bound
by
29
the
recommendations.
A
board
member
shall
not
be
required
to
30
be
a
member
of
any
professional
association
or
society
composed
31
of
professional
engineers
or
professional
land
surveyors.
32
EXPLANATION
33
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
34
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
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Under
current
law,
the
engineering
and
land
surveying
1
examining
board
consists
of
four
members
who
are
licensed
2
professional
engineers,
one
member
who
is
a
licensed
3
professional
land
surveyor
or
a
professional
engineer
who
is
4
also
a
licensed
professional
land
surveyor,
and
two
public
5
members
who
are
not
licensed
professional
engineers
or
licensed
6
professional
land
surveyors.
This
bill
decreases
the
number
7
of
members
who
must
be
licensed
professional
engineers
from
8
four
to
three
and
increases
the
number
of
members
who
must
be
9
licensed
professional
land
surveyors
from
one
to
two.
The
10
bill
also
provides
that
an
individual
who
is
licensed
as
both
11
a
professional
engineer
and
a
professional
land
surveyor
may
12
serve
to
satisfy
the
board
membership
requirement
for
either
a
13
licensed
professional
engineer
or
a
licensed
professional
land
14
surveyor,
but
not
both.
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