AB 270 — Revises provisions relating to architects, professional engineers and land surveyors. (BDR 54-773)

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270–ASSEMBLYMEMBERS H AFEN , ACKUS AND M ARZOLA FEBRUARY 20, 2025 ____________ Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to professional engineers and land surveyors.

(BDR 54-773) FISCAL NOTE:

Effect on Local Government:

No.

Effect on the State:

Yes.

~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;

matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

revising provisions relating to a certificate of registration to practice architecture;

LegislativeLegiExisting Counsel’slaw Digest:prohibits a person from practicing architecture in this State without a certificate of registration issued by the State Board of Architecture, Interior Design and Residential Design.

(NRS 623.180) Before receiving a certificate of registration, existing law requires an applicant to pass an examination adopted by the Board.

(NRS 623.200) Section 1 of this bill requires the Board, through December 31, 2026, to accept evidence that the applicant is a laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in lieu of an examination.

Existing law prohibits an applicant from taking the examination on the principles and practices of engineering unless the applicant has passed the examination on the fundamentals of engineering or received a waiver of andthat Landrequirement. Surveyors to waive the examination on the fundamentals of engineeringneers if the applicant:

(1)Existing haslaw graduatedauthorizes fromthe anState engineeringBoard curriculumof thatProfessional isEngineers approvedand byLand Surveyors to waive the Board;examination on the fundamentals of engineering if the applicant:

and(1) has graduated from an engineering curriculum that is approved 625.183, 625.193) (2) has 15 or more years of experience in engineering.

(NRS 625.183, 625.193) Sections 11.5 and 2 of this bill remove the requirement that an applicant must pass the examination on the fundamentals of engineering or receive a waiver of that requirement before taking the examination on the principles and practices of engineering.

Existing law requires an applicant for licensure as a professional land surveyor to pass:

(1) an examination on the fundamentals of land surveying or receive aarveyor - *AB270_R1* – 2 – waiver of that requirement;

and (2) has passed the examination on the fundamentals of land surveying waiveor thereceived examinationa onwaiver the fundamentals of landthat surveyingrequirement. if the applicant has to 15 or more years of experience in land surveying;

andExisting (2)law: requires the Board to consider graduation from a land-surveying curriculum that is approved by the Board to be equivalent to 4 years of experience for purposes of the waiver.

(NRS(1) 625.270,authorizes 625.280)the SectionsBoard 3to andwaive 4the ofexamination thison billthe removefundamentals theof requirementsland thatsurveying anif the applicant musthas beconsider agraduation graduatefrom of a land-surveying curriculum that is approved by the Boardto and- pass83rd requirementSession before(2025) taking– the2 examination– onBoard theto principlesbe andequivalent practicesto 4 years of landexperience surveying.for purposes of the waiver.

(NRS 625.270, 625.280) Sections 3 and 4 of this bill remove the requirements that an applicant must be the examination on the fundamentals of land surveying or receive a waiver of that requirement before taking the examination on the principles and practices of land surveying.

(2) revising the years of experience required from 15 years of experience in land surveying to 10 years of active experience in land surveying;

and (3) removing the requirement for the Board to consider graduation from a land-surveying curriculum that is appExistingapproved lawby sets forth certain requirements for the contentBoard andto administrationbe ofequivalent examinationsto on4 theyears fundamentals of engineeringexperience. or land surveying and the principles and practices of engineering or land surveying.

(NRSExisting 625.193,law 625.280)sets forth certain requirements for the content and administration of examinations on the fundamentals of engineering or land surveying and the Sections 2 and 4 remove those requirements and instead require applicants forfor280) licensure to pass an applicable examination administered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying or its successor organization or another equivalent examination that is approved by the Board.

EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;

matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

Chapter 623 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:

The Board shall, in lieu of all examinations for a certificate of registration to practice architecture, accept satisfactory evidence that an applicant is a laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Sec.

1.5.

An applicant for licensure as a professional engineer is not qualified for licensure unless the applicant is a graduate of an engineering curriculum of 4 years or more that is approved by the Board and has a record of 4 years or more of active experience in - *AB270_R1*83rd –Session 3(2025) – engineering3 which– is satisfactory to the Board and which indicates that the applicant is competent to be placed in responsible charge of engineering work.

(b) Two of the 4 years of active experience must have been completed by working under the direct supervision of a professional engineer who is licensed in the discipline in which the applicant is applying for licensure, unless that requirement is waived by the Board.

(a) An examination on the fundamentals of engineering [that must cover the subject matter of a general education or training in engineering.] administered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying or its successor organization or another equivalent examination that is approved by the Board.

- 83rd Session (2025) – 4 – (b) An examination on the principles and practices of engineering that must cover the discipline of engineering in which - *AB270_R1* – 4 – the applicant is applying for licensure [.] , administered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying or itsis successorapproved organizationby the Board.n or another equivalent examination that is2. approved by the Board.

2.

(a)approved Inby writing,the withBoard;h a pen or pencil of a type that has been (b) With a computer that has been provided or approved by the Board;

(b) With a computer that has been provided or approved by the Board;