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F I S C A L    I M P A C T    R E P O R T

 

 

 

SPONSOR

Garcia, MP

DATE TYPED

02/07/04

HB

372

 

SHORT TITLE

Engineer & Surveyor Licensing Board Members

SB

 

 

 

ANALYST

Geisler

 

APPROPRIATION

 

Appropriation Contained

Estimated Additional Impact

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY04

FY05

FY04

FY05

 

 

 

$7.0

Recurring

Other State Funds

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

 

 

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

 

State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers & Surveyors

 

SUMMARY

 

Synopsis of Bill

 

The bill increases the number of professional surveyors on the Board from three to five and clarifies the experience required to serve as a surveyor member of the board.  The  number of

surveyors will equal the number of professional engineers on the board, making the Board a twelve-member board including its two current public members.  The number of board members on the surveying subcommittee will increase from three to five members.

 

Since each board member term is for five years, the bill increases the number of terms expiring each year to “not more than three”.  The bill requires the Board to notify the Governor if it exercises the authority in the current act to appoint a provisional member to serve in a position that has been vacant for more than three months.

 

PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS

 

Adding two additional board members will alleviate the work of the current three professional surveyor members on the surveying subcommittee as well as on other board committees. 

 

 

 

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

 

The budget for fiscal year 2005 would need to be increased by use of budget adjustment authority by approximately $7 thousand to cover in-state travel to board and committee meetings, out-of-state travel for an additional member to attend and participate as a member of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying and its committees and other incidental administrative costs. 

 

OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

 

  • The bill will require a surveyor board member to have been engaged in the practice of surveying as a professional surveyor for at least ten years, including responsible charge of surveying projects as a principal activity for at least five years.

 

  • The board had 6,138 professional engineers, 428 professional surveyors, and 99 dual licensees (a total of 6,665 licensees) at the beginning of FY 04.

 

·        The two professions are distinct and the licensing requirements and application processes are separate from one another.

 

·        The Professional Surveying Committee reviews from 17 to 37 surveying cases per year.

 

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