House File 546 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 546 BY COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 154) A BILL FOR An Act relating to applications for architectural licensure and 1 including retroactive applicability provisions. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1980HV (1) 89 jda/rn

H.F. 546 Section 1. Section 544A.8, subsection 5, Code 2021, is 1 amended by striking the subsection. 2 Sec. 2. RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. This Act applies 3 retroactively to persons who applied to the architectural 4 examining board for licensure and who, on or after June 25, 5 2020, passed one or more modules of the architect registration 6 examination but failed to pass the examination. 7 EXPLANATION 8 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 9 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 10 This bill relates to applications for architectural 11 licensure. The bill strikes a provision that provides that 12 a person applying to the architectural examining board 13 for architectural licensure who has passed a module of the 14 architect registration examination but failed to pass the exam 15 shall not be required to retake that module in subsequent 16 examinations. The bill applies retroactively to persons who 17 applied to the board for licensure and who, on or after June 18 25, 2020, passed one or more modules of the exam but failed to 19 pass the exam. 20 -1- LSB 1980HV (1) 89 jda/rn 1/ 1