Committee approves housekeeping bill letting engineering board retain incidental licensing revenues

Chairman McDonald presented House Bill 1428, a housekeeping measure requested by professional engineers and land surveyors to correct a 2022 omission that left incidental licensing revenues in the Secretary of State’s office. McDonald said the change will allow the independent licensing board for professional engineers and land surveyors to retain those incidental revenues and that the amount at issue was a little over $300,000 when the transfer occurred.

Committee members had no substantive opposition on the floor; the bill was reported unanimous out of subcommittee earlier and was approved by the committee in a voice vote. No roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.

The chair closed the item and the committee moved to other business.