Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0927

Modifying certain provisions regulating the practice of professional engineering
including architects, engineers, surveyors, landscape architects, geoscientists
and interior designers; prohibiting bidding on contracts without licensure or
certification; expanding the scope of professional engineering practice;
restricting incidental practice; regulating prime professionals; prohibiting
certain conflicts of interest; defining certain additional terms; increasing and
modifying the membership of the board of architecture, engineering, land
surveying, landscape architecture, geoscience and interior design and modifying
certain appointment and meeting requirements; specifying certain roster
distribution requirements; requiring the engineering section of the board to
adopt rules establishing minimum standards of engineering or design for each
discipline of engineering tested or licensed by the board; specifying certain
minimum license fees; expanding licensure or certification eligibility;
requiring a complaint committee for each section of the board; expanding costs
for disciplinary reimbursement purposes; granting the board certain stop order
issuance authority; requiring and providing for review of uncertified work,
specifying certain duties of the board; restricting the use of electronic
signatures for certification of documents and alterations to and plan stamping
of certified plans; providing for performance specifications; requiring and
providing for the certification of plans submitted to building officials or
public agencies for new or remodel construction; specifying certain
certification requirements for prototypical or standard plans; authorizing
withdrawal of certification under certain conditions; specifying certain
additional requirements of corporations or partnerships practicing professional
engineering, specifying certain responsible individual affidavit filing
requirements (mk)