HB2154
Architects; alternative to education requirement for licensure.
Status:
Enacted
Latest Action:
March 24, 2025
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534)
Chief Patron:
Betsy Carr (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Professions and occupations; alternative to education requirement for licensure of architects.
Requires the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and Landscape Architects to adopt regulations establishing work and education experience equivalencies that shall provide an alternative to the requirement of a professional degree in architecture from a program accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. The bill ... (More) also requires the Board to adopt regulations establishing a credit system to account for varying degrees of work and education experience and to develop requirements for applicants seeking licensure to certify work and education experience on an annual basis. The bill requires the Board to evaluate any past work or education experience of any applicant under this bill until July 1, 2028. This bill is identical to SB 1310. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104486D
- 01/07/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/17/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2154)
- 01/20/2025 - House: Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process
- 01/20/2025 - House: Placed on General Laws Agenda
- 01/23/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/2025 - House: Placed on General Laws Agenda
- 01/28/2025 - House: Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2025 - House: Read first time
- 01/31/2025 - House: Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
- 01/31/2025 - House: Read second time
- 01/31/2025 - House: General Laws Amendments agreed to
- 01/31/2025 - House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 01/31/2025 - House: Printed as engrossed 25104486D-E
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2154)
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 02/19/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2154ER)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2154)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/22/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/03/2025 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
- 03/03/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/24/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 534 (Effective 07/01/25)
- 03/24/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534)
