The bill amends and reenacts multiple sections of the Professional Engineers' Registration Act (chapter 18.43 RCW), revising definitions, board composition and procedures, licensing standards, corporate authorization rules, fee and fund handling, and certain enforcement procedures. It modifies existing law rather than creating an entirely new statute, specifying that the state board of registration for professional engineers and land surveyors will consist of seven governor-appointed members with five-year terms, establishes a board-appointed director who must hold a Washington professional engineer or land surveyor license, revises pro tem appointment procedures (up to three pro tems, appointment process, powers and compensation, and 180-day limit unless extended), and sets a quorum of four members. The board is authorized to adopt bylaws, appoint staff, adopt rules, submit reports, publish a roster (text incomplete), and determine fees and examination schedules. The bill changes licensing and certification procedures and qualifications. It amends RCW 18.43.040 to require passing scores on board-prescribed examinations and a record of eight years of broad-based, progressive experience for professional engineer and professional land surveyor registration, allows defined education and teaching substitutes (with up to four years credit for an approved undergraduate degree at board discretion), and creates recognition and additional requirements for the structural engineer specialty (requiring current professional engineer registration plus at least two additional years of structural experience and additional board-prescribed examinations). It provides for engineer-in-training and land-surveyor-in-training certificates after four years of the required experience type plus passing the board fundamentals exam, requires board-prescribed application forms and fees, makes registration fees nonrefundable, prescribes issuance and form of certificates and seals, requires signing and stamping of work by registrants, sets renewal procedures (including verification of continuing professional development hours for professional land surveyors), and permits reciprocity and waiver of fundamentals examinations under board rule. The bill also amends corporate, partnership, and LLC practice rules and enforcement. Corporations and LLCs offering engineering or land surveying must file certified resolutions designating a licensed person responsible for practice in Washington, amend governing documents to vest final decision authority in that designated professional, notify the board within 30 days of changes, and meet secretary of state and department of revenue registration requirements; the board will issue certificates of authorization upon specified filings and determinations and may take disciplinary or enforcement actions under referenced RCW provisions. The board must set fees adequate to administer the chapter and monies are deposited to a board account in the state treasury; the board must suspend registration upon DSHS certification of noncompliance with a support order and reissue upon DSHS release. Important text is missing or incomplete in the provided excerpts (including the remainder of the roster/publication provision, full texts of several amended RCW sections listed in the bill header, exact fee amounts, the specific required continuing professional development hours for land surveyors, and some mid-sentence material), so those details cannot be determined from these excerpts.

If enacted, people seeking or holding engineering or land surveying credentials will face clearer, enforceable pathways and routine costs: expect an eight‑year experience requirement for full licensure with up to four years of approved education counting toward that total, a separate structural license that adds about two years of specialty experience and extra exams, and a four‑year/ fundamentals‑exam route to be enrolled as an engineer‑in‑training or land‑surveyor‑in‑training. Licenses and corporate authorizations will require nonrefundable board fees that the board sets to cover its operating costs, registrants must obtain and use official seals, meet renewal rules (land surveyors must verify continuing education), and can lose registration immediately if DSHS certifies they are out of compliance with support orders until the state confirms compliance. Firms that offer engineering or surveying services will need to designate and maintain an in‑state licensed professional with full authority for technical decisions, file that designation with the board, notify the board within 30 days of any change, and pay initial and annual authorization fees; corporations and LLCs and their managers/officers face the same disciplinary exposure and potential personal liability as individual licensees. The state board’s makeup, director qualifications, pro tem appointment process, and ability to set fees and hold those funds in a dedicated account will change how the board operates and finances itself, which may lead to higher or more predictable application and renewal costs; specific fee amounts, required continuing education hours, the roster/publication rule, and several other implementation details are not included in the excerpt and remain unclear.