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Registration and Regulation Committee
Filed: 3/14/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1281
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1281 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Professional Engineering Practice Act of |
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| 1989 is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
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| (225 ILCS 325/8) (from Ch. 111, par. 5208)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2010)
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| Sec. 8. Applications for licensure.
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| (a) Applications for licensure
shall (1) be on forms |
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| prescribed and furnished by the Department, (2) contain
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| statements made under oath showing the applicant's education |
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a detailed summary of the applicant's technical work, and |
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| (3) contain
references as required by the Department.
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| (b) Applicants shall have obtained the education and |
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| experience as
required in Section 10 or Section 11 prior to |
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| submittal of application
for examination, except as provided in |
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| subsection (b) of Section 11.
Allowable experience shall |
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| commence at the date of the baccalaureate
degree, except:
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| (1) Credit for one year of experience shall be given |
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| for a graduate of
a baccalaureate curriculum providing a |
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| cooperative program, which is
supervised industrial or |
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| field experience of at least one academic year
which |
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| alternates with periods of full-time academic training, |
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| when such
program is certified by the university, or
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| (2) Partial credit may be given
for professional |
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| engineering experience as
defined by rule for employment |
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| prior to receipt of a baccalaureate
degree if the |
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| employment is full-time while the applicant is a
part-time |
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| student
taking fewer than 12 hours per semester or 8 hours |
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| per quarter
to earn the degree concurrent with the
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| full-time engineering experience.
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| (3) If an applicant files an application and supporting |
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| documents
containing a material misstatement of |
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| information or a
misrepresentation for the purpose of |
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| obtaining licensure or
enrollment or if an applicant |
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| performs
any fraud or deceit in taking any examination to |
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| qualify for
licensure or enrollment
under this Act, the |
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| Department may issue a rule of intent to deny
licensure or |
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| enrollment
and may conduct a hearing in accordance
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| Sections 26 through 33 and Sections 37 and 38 of this Act.
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| The Board may conduct oral interviews of any applicant |
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| under Sections
10, 11, or 19 to assist in the evaluation of the |
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| qualifications of the
applicant.
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| It is the responsibility of the applicant to supplement the
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| application, when requested by the Board, by provision of |
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| additional
documentation of education, including transcripts, |
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| course content and
credentials of the engineering college or |
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| college granting related
science degrees, or of work experience |
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| to permit the Board to determine
the qualifications of the |
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| applicant. The Department may require an
applicant, at the |
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| applicant's expense, to have an evaluation of the applicant's
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| education in a foreign country by a nationally recognized |
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| educational body
approved by the Board in accordance with rules |
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| prescribed by the Department.
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| An applicant who graduated from an engineering program |
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| outside the United
States or its territories and whose first |
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| language is not English shall submit
certification of passage |
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| of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
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| Test of Spoken English (TSE) as defined by rule.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-92, eff. 1-1-00; 92-145, eff. 1-1-02.)".
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