MO HB1639

Increases Missouri Board membership from fourteen to fifteen members, adding one professional engineer to the professional engineering division (three to four members).

Modifies board quorum requirements from seven to eight voting members, including at least one member from each division, and establishes two voting members per division as quorum for division business.

Changes chairperson rotation to cycle sequentially through architect, professional engineer, professional land surveyor, and landscape architect positions with four-year terms limited to one term, requiring chairperson to be a former board member.

Removes requirement for attorney general advice before board subpoena authority and reduces vote threshold to two-thirds of voting members instead of requiring attorney general consultation.

Adds landscape architects to professional development and licensing provisions for professional land surveyors, including requirements for continuing education units and active practice qualifications for educators in landscape architecture schools.