SPONSOR: Mayhew
COMMITTEE ACTION: Voted "Do Pass" by the Standing Committee on Professional Registration and Licensing by a vote of 12 to 0.
This bill changes the requirements to become a land surveyor. Currently, a person must apply to the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects for enrollment as a land surveyor-in-training and meet certain requirements before applying to become a professional land surveyor.
Beginning January 1, 2024, this bill requires a person to apply for enrollment as a land surveyor intern instead of a land surveyor-in training. To qualify a person must meet certain requirements specified in the bill.
Beginning January 1, 2024, in order to apply to the Board for licensure as a professional land surveyor, a applicant must:
(1) Be a high school graduate or hold a high school equivalently certificate, and hold a Bachelor's degree or have completed at least 60 hours of college credit, with 15 total semester hours of approved surveying coursework, of which at least six semester hours are in legal aspects of land surveying;
(2) Have acquired the specified years of field and office experience in land surveying under the immediate supervision of a professional land surveyor. The years of experience vary based on educational requirements completed by the applicant; and
(3) Have passed any examinations required by the Board.
If a person is enrolled as a land surveyor-in-training before January 1, 2024, he or she can be licensed as a professional land surveyor upon meeting the licensing requirements as they existed on August 27, 2022.
PROPONENTS: Supporters say that this will simplify the requirement and streamline the process of becoming a land surveyor. Supporters also say this doesn t change how many years of experience, just when those years can be.
Testifying for the bill were Representative Mayhew; Jonathan Cole, Merebrook Land Surveying; Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors; Missouri Society of Professional Land Surveyors; and the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors. OPPONENTS: Those who oppose the bill say that we should keep the regulations as they currently are.
Testifying against the bill was Arnie C. Dienoff.
Written testimony has been submitted for this bill. The full written testimony can be found under Testimony on the bill page on the House website.
Statutes affected: