Registration and Regulation Committee

Filed: 3/14/2007

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1281

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1281 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Professional Engineering Practice Act of
5 1989 is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
 
6     (225 ILCS 325/8)  (from Ch. 111, par. 5208)
7     (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2010)
8     Sec. 8. Applications for licensure.
9     (a) Applications for licensure shall (1) be on forms
10 prescribed and furnished by the Department, (2) contain
11 statements made under oath showing the applicant's education
12 and a detailed summary of the applicant's technical work, and
13 (3) contain references as required by the Department.
14     (b) Applicants shall have obtained the education and
15 experience as required in Section 10 or Section 11 prior to
16 submittal of application for examination, except as provided in

 

 

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1 subsection (b) of Section 11. Allowable experience shall
2 commence at the date of the baccalaureate degree, except:
3         (1) Credit for one year of experience shall be given
4     for a graduate of a baccalaureate curriculum providing a
5     cooperative program, which is supervised industrial or
6     field experience of at least one academic year which
7     alternates with periods of full-time academic training,
8     when such program is certified by the university, or
9         (2) Partial credit may be given for professional
10     engineering experience as defined by rule for employment
11     prior to receipt of a baccalaureate degree if the
12     employment is full-time while the applicant is a part-time
13     student taking fewer than 12 hours per semester or 8 hours
14     per quarter to earn the degree concurrent with the
15     full-time engineering experience.
16         (3) If an applicant files an application and supporting
17     documents containing a material misstatement of
18     information or a misrepresentation for the purpose of
19     obtaining licensure or enrollment or if an applicant
20     performs any fraud or deceit in taking any examination to
21     qualify for licensure or enrollment under this Act, the
22     Department may issue a rule of intent to deny licensure or
23     enrollment and may conduct a hearing in accordance with
24     Sections 26 through 33 and Sections 37 and 38 of this Act.
25     The Board may conduct oral interviews of any applicant
26 under Sections 10, 11, or 19 to assist in the evaluation of the

 

 

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1 qualifications of the applicant.
2     It is the responsibility of the applicant to supplement the
3 application, when requested by the Board, by provision of
4 additional documentation of education, including transcripts,
5 course content and credentials of the engineering college or
6 college granting related science degrees, or of work experience
7 to permit the Board to determine the qualifications of the
8 applicant. The Department may require an applicant, at the
9 applicant's expense, to have an evaluation of the applicant's
10 education in a foreign country by a nationally recognized
11 educational body approved by the Board in accordance with rules
12 prescribed by the Department.
13     An applicant who graduated from an engineering program
14 outside the United States or its territories and whose first
15 language is not English shall submit certification of passage
16 of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the
17 Test of Spoken English (TSE) as defined by rule.
18 (Source: P.A. 91-92, eff. 1-1-00; 92-145, eff. 1-1-02.)".