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Rep. Lou Lang
Filed: 3/19/2014
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4535
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4535 by replacing |
3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | | "Section 5. The Illinois Architecture Practice Act of 1989 |
5 | | is amended by changing Section 11 as follows:
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6 | | (225 ILCS 305/11) (from Ch. 111, par. 1311)
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7 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2020)
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8 | | Sec. 11. Application for original license. Applications |
9 | | for original
licensure shall be made to the Department in |
10 | | writing on forms prescribed by
the Department and shall be |
11 | | accompanied by the required fee, which is
not refundable. Any |
12 | | such application shall require information as in
the judgment |
13 | | of the Department will enable the Department to pass on the
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14 | | qualifications of the applicant to practice architecture.
The |
15 | | Department may require an applicant, at the applicant's |
16 | | expense, to have
an evaluation of the applicant's education in |
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1 | | a foreign country by an evaluation service approved by the |
2 | | Board in accordance with rules
prescribed by the Department.
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3 | | An applicant who has graduated from an architectural |
4 | | program outside the
United
States or its territories and whose |
5 | | first language is not English shall submit
certification of |
6 | | passage of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
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7 | | and a test of spoken English as defined by rule. However, any |
8 | | such applicant who subsequently earns an advanced degree from |
9 | | an accredited educational institution in the United States or |
10 | | its territories shall not be subject to this requirement.
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11 | | (Source: P.A. 96-610, eff. 8-24-09.)
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12 | | Section 10. The Professional Engineering Practice Act of |
13 | | 1989 is amended by changing Section 8 as follows: |
14 | | (225 ILCS 325/8) (from Ch. 111, par. 5208)
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15 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2020) |
16 | | Sec. 8. Applications for licensure. |
17 | | (a) Applications for licensure
shall (1) be on forms |
18 | | prescribed and furnished by the Department, (2) contain
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19 | | statements made under oath showing the applicant's education |
20 | | and
a detailed summary of the applicant's technical work, and |
21 | | (3) contain
references as required by the Department. |
22 | | (b) Applicants shall have obtained the education and |
23 | | experience as
required in Section 10 or Section 11 prior to |
24 | | submittal of application
for licensure.
Allowable experience |
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1 | | shall commence at the date of the baccalaureate
degree, except: |
2 | | (1) Credit for one year of experience shall be given |
3 | | for a graduate of
a baccalaureate curriculum providing a |
4 | | cooperative program, which is
supervised industrial or |
5 | | field experience of at least one academic year
which |
6 | | alternates with periods of full-time academic training, |
7 | | when such
program is certified by the university, or |
8 | | (2) Partial credit may be given
for professional |
9 | | engineering experience as
defined by rule for employment |
10 | | prior to receipt of a baccalaureate
degree if the |
11 | | employment is full-time while the applicant is a
part-time |
12 | | student
taking fewer than 12 hours per semester or 8 hours |
13 | | per quarter
to earn the degree concurrent with the
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14 | | full-time engineering experience. |
15 | | (3) If an applicant files an application and supporting |
16 | | documents
containing a material misstatement of |
17 | | information or a
misrepresentation for the purpose of |
18 | | obtaining licensure or
enrollment or if an applicant |
19 | | performs
any fraud or deceit in taking any examination to |
20 | | qualify for
licensure or enrollment
under this Act, the |
21 | | Department may issue a rule of intent to deny
licensure or |
22 | | enrollment
and may conduct a hearing in accordance
with |
23 | | Sections 26 through 33 and Sections 37 and 38 of this Act. |
24 | | The Board may conduct oral interviews of any applicant |
25 | | under Sections
10, 11, or 19 to assist in the evaluation of the |
26 | | qualifications of the
applicant. |
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1 | | It is the responsibility of the applicant to supplement the
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2 | | application, when requested by the Board, by provision of |
3 | | additional
documentation of education, including transcripts, |
4 | | course content and
credentials of the engineering college or |
5 | | college granting related
science degrees, or of work experience |
6 | | to permit the Board to determine
the qualifications of the |
7 | | applicant. The Department may require an
applicant, at the |
8 | | applicant's expense, to have an evaluation of the applicant's
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9 | | education in a foreign country by a nationally recognized |
10 | | evaluating service
approved by the Department. |
11 | | An applicant who graduated from an engineering program |
12 | | outside the United
States or its territories and whose first |
13 | | language is not English shall submit
certification of passage |
14 | | of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
and a test |
15 | | of spoken English as defined by rule. However, any such |
16 | | applicant who subsequently earns an advanced degree from an |
17 | | accredited educational institution in the United States or its |
18 | | territories shall not be subject to this requirement. |
19 | | (Source: P.A. 96-626, eff. 8-24-09; 96-850, eff. 6-1-10 .) |
20 | | Section 15. The Structural Engineering Practice Act of 1989 |
21 | | is amended by changing Section 9 as follows:
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22 | | (225 ILCS 340/9) (from Ch. 111, par. 6609)
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23 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2020)
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24 | | Sec. 9.
Applications for original licenses shall be made to |
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1 | | the
Department in writing on forms prescribed by the Department |
2 | | and shall be
accompanied by the required fee, which is not |
3 | | refundable. The application
shall require such information as |
4 | | in the judgment of the Department will
enable the Department to |
5 | | pass on the qualifications of the applicant for
a license.
The |
6 | | Department may require an applicant, at the applicant's |
7 | | expense, to have
an evaluation of the applicant's education in |
8 | | a foreign county by a nationally
recognized evaluation service |
9 | | approved by the Department in accordance with rules
prescribed |
10 | | by the Department.
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11 | | An applicant who graduated from a structural engineering |
12 | | program outside the
United States or its territories and whose |
13 | | first language is not English shall
submit certification of |
14 | | passage of the Test of English as a Foreign Language
(TOEFL) |
15 | | and a test of spoken English as defined by rule. However, any |
16 | | such applicant who subsequently earns an advanced degree from |
17 | | an accredited educational institution in the United States or |
18 | | its territories shall not be subject to this requirement.
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19 | | (Source: P.A. 96-610, eff. 8-24-09.)".
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