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WA HB1104

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/13/2025

Primary Sponsor

Kevin Waters

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Removes the U.S. citizenship requirement for board members of the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, retaining only the five-year state residency requirement

  • Expands pro tem board member positions from two to three and broadens their duties to include ensuring sufficient case reviewers, forming quorums, and serving on committees, with appointments requiring board approval rather than just director approval

  • Updates terminology throughout the chapter, including changing "executive director" to "director," replacing "places of business" with "mailing addresses" for rosters, and changing fee descriptions from "examination" costs to "application processing" costs

  • Removes obsolete provisions including transitional language from 1986 and 2007, provisions about six-year experience requirements before July 1996, and language permitting fund transfers to the general fund during specific fiscal biennia

  • Renames the "professional engineers' account" to the "board's account" in the state treasury and removes the reference to "residential or visitation order" from child support compliance provisions

Legislative Description

Updating the professional engineers' registration act.

Last Action

House Rules "X" file.

2/19/2026

Committee Referrals

Rules2/3/2025
Consumer Protection & Business1/13/2025

Full Bill Text

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