HB3322 Summary

• Changes the title "Land Surveyor-in-Training" to "Surveyor Intern" throughout the Illinois Professional Land Surveyor Act of 1989, updating corresponding abbreviations from "S.I.T." to "S.I."

• Adds new definitions including "standard of care," "establishing," "reestablishing/locating," and "boundary law principles" to clarify surveying terminology and practices.

• Expands the definition of land surveying practice to include six new specific activities: consultation and planning related to property boundaries, measuring/evaluating buildings relative to flood insurance maps and wetland boundaries, boundary analysis for regulatory submissions, and photogrammetric work by certified professionals.

• Modifies licensing qualifications to require graduates of approved land surveying programs or baccalaureate graduates with at least 24 semester hours of surveying courses to pass a fundamentals of surveying examination.

• Changes Surveyor Intern licenses to expire based on individual circumstances rather than having a fixed 10-year validity period, and adds email addresses to the public roster of licensed surveyors maintained by the Department.