Current Status Bill Number:3922 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19970410 Primary Sponsor:Fleming All Sponsors:Fleming and Limehouse Drafted Document Number:EGM\18598DJC.97 Residing Body:House Date Tabled:19980210 Current Committee:Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee 26 HLCI Subject:Engineers, professional; qualifications for registration; Engineering
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House 19980210 Tabled in Committee 26 HLCI
House 19970410 Introduced, read first time, 26 HLCI
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 40-22-190, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO QUALIFICATIONS FOR REGISTRATION AS A CATEGORY A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE MINIMUM EVIDENCE SATISFACTORY FOR AN APPLICANT TO QUALIFY FOR REGISTRATION AS A CATEGORY A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER INCLUDES GRADUATION IN A TAC/ABET ACCREDITED ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM OF FOUR OR MORE YEARS FROM A SCHOOL OR COLLEGE APPROVED BY THE BOARD AS BEING IN SATISFACTORY STANDING, SUPPLEMENTAL POST GRADUATE STUDIES IN APPROVED ENGINEERING SCIENCE COURSES SUFFICIENT TO ENABLE THE APPLICANT TO PASS THE WRITTEN EXAMINATION REQUIRED FOR REGISTRATION AS A CATEGORY A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER, A SPECIFIC RECORD AFTER GRADUATION OF EIGHT OR MORE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN ENGINEERING WORK OF A CHARACTER SATISFACTORY TO THE BOARD AND WHICH INDICATES THAT THE APPLICANT IS COMPETENT TO PRACTICE ENGINEERING, PASSING A WRITTEN EXAMINATION DESIGNED TO SHOW KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL APPROXIMATING THAT ATTAINED THROUGH GRADUATION IN AN EAC/ABET ACCREDITED FOUR-YEAR ENGINEERING CURRICULUM, AND THEN PASSING THE WRITTEN EXAMINATION REQUIRED FOR REGISTRATION AS A CATEGORY A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 40-22-190 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 185 of 1993, is further amended to read:
"Section 40-22-190. (A) To be eligible for registration as a Category A professional engineer, an applicant must be of good character and reputation. When the evidence presented in the application does not appear conclusive to the board or does not warrant the issuing of a certificate of registration, the applicant may be required to present further evidence for consideration by the board. The applicant also shall meet the requirements of the other pertinent sections of this chapter.
(B) The minimum evidence satisfactory to the board that an applicant is qualified for registration as a Category A professional engineer is:
(1) graduation in an EAC/ABET accredited engineering curriculum of four or more years from a school or college approved by the board as being in satisfactory standing, a specific record after graduation of an additional four or more years of progressive experience in engineering work of a character satisfactory to the board, indicating that the applicant is competent to practice engineering (in counting years of experience, the board may give one year credit for satisfactory completion of a Master's Degree in Engineering or maximum credit of two years for satisfactory completion of the doctorate level degree in engineering), and passing examinations required by the board;
(2) graduation from an approved engineering curriculum from a school or college other than those approved by the board in item (1), a specific record after graduation of eight or more years of experience in engineering work of a character satisfactory to the board, indicating that the applicant is competent to practice engineering, passing a written examination designed to show knowledge and skill approximating that attained through graduation in an EAC/ABET accredited four-year engineering curriculum, and then passing the written examinations required of applicants in item (1); or
(3) graduation in a TAC/ABET accredited engineering technology curriculum of four or more years from a school or college approved by the board as being in satisfactory standing, supplemental post graduate studies in approved engineering science courses sufficient to equate the applicant's cumulative program of formal engineering study as being substantially equivalent to an EAC/ABET accredited program enable the applicant to pass the written examination required of applicants in item (1), a specific record after graduation of eight or more years of experience in engineering work of a character satisfactory to the board and which indicates that the applicant is competent to practice engineering, passing a written examination designed to show knowledge and skill approximating that attained through graduation in an EAC/ABET accredited four-year engineering curriculum, and then passing the written examination required of applicants in item (1)."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.