HB744 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Mac McCutcheon

Republican

Co-Sponsors

Mike BallHoward SanderfordPhil Williams

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Engineers and Land Surveyors, State Board of Licensure for Professional, licensure, graduation and experience qualifications for professional engineers, Sec. 34-11-4 am'd.

Summary

This bill would set explicit new graduation and experience requirements for licensure as a professional engineer in Alabama and outline similar licensure paths for engineers interns and land surveyors.

What This Bill Does

It amends Section 34-11-4 to create specific paths to professional engineer licensure based on approved or unapproved engineering curricula, detailing required years of experience, two-stage examinations, and transitional rules for doctorate holders. It also establishes parallel licensure methods for Engineer Interns and Professional Land Surveyors, including comity provisions for out-of-state certificates, temporary interim permits, and related examinations. In addition, the bill allows the board to count graduate study, teaching experience, and certain examinations toward licensure credits and to recognize exams from other jurisdictions; it becomes effective immediately after passage.

Who It Affects

• Prospective professional engineers in Alabama who must meet the new education, experience, and examination requirements, including those from approved and unapproved curricula and those with doctoral degrees seeking licensure.
• Prospective Engineer Interns and Professional Land Surveyors (and Land Surveyor Interns) who would follow the new internship licensure paths, with associated exams, experience credits, and comity options.

Key Provisions

• Establishes tiered licensure criteria for professional engineers, requiring either an approved four-year engineering degree with four years of progressive experience plus passing an eight-hour fundamentals exam and an additional eight-hour exam on principles and practice, or an unapproved curriculum with six years of experience and the same two-exam sequence; includes transitional provisions for graduates with doctorates before December 31, 2015.
• Adds parallel licensure tracks for Engineer Interns and Professional Land Surveyors (with corresponding education, experience, and examinations), allows comity and interim permits, permits recognition of out-of-state examinations, credits graduate study toward experience, recognizes teaching credits, and specifies that the act becomes effective immediately upon passage.

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Subjects

Engineers and Land Surveyors, State Board of Licensure for Professional