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    AN ACT concerning regulation.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:

 
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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    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2010)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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and
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
with 
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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)
and the 
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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.)