THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY BURNS, GIBBONS, HALUSKA, KORTZ, KOTIK, MANN, PAYNE, SIPTROTH AND PASHINSKI, MARCH 3, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, MARCH 3, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending the act of January 24, 1966 (1965 P.L.1527, No.535),

entitled "An act providing for and regulating the licensing

of landscape architects; fixing fees; creating the State

Board of Landscape Architects; imposing powers and duties on

the Department of State, the Commissioner of Professional and

Occupational Affairs and the board; and prescribing unlawful

acts and penalties," further providing for application for

license and qualifications and experience requirements of

applicants and for continuing education.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 6(c) of the act of January 24, 1966 (1965

P.L.1527, No.535), known as the Landscape Architects'

Registration Law, amended March 7, 1984 (P.L.129, No.24), is

amended to read:

Section 6.  Application for License; Qualifications and

Experience Requirements of Applicants.--* * *

(c)  The board may register and license without written

examination [(i)] a person who holds an unexpired license or

certification of registration issued by proper authority of

another state or foreign country in which the requirements and

qualifications to engage in the practice of landscape

architecture were at the time of initial issuance of a license

or certificate of registration at least equal to the standards

of this Commonwealth existing at that time[; or (ii) an

applicant who has ten years of active experience as a landscape

architect and is a graduate of an approved institution, or who

has fifteen years of active experience even though not a

graduate of an approved institution, if in the opinion of the

board the experience is of such grade and character as to fit

the person to assume responsible charge of work involved in the

practice of landscape architecture].

Section 2.  Section 9.1(b) of the act, added December 7, 1994

(P.L.774, No.107), is amended to read:

Section 9.1.  Continuing Education Required.--* * *

(b)  Beginning with the license period designated by

[regulation] the board, each person licensed under this act

shall be required to obtain [ten] twenty-four hours of mandatory

continuing education during each two-year license period. A

licensed landscape architect who wishes to activate a license

which has been placed on inactive status shall be required to

document [ten] twenty-four hours of continuing education.

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Section 3.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.