Senate Bill 5090 reenacts and amends RCW 18.43.020 and amends multiple other sections of chapter 18.43 RCW governing the Washington State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. The bill specifies board composition and member qualifications (seven governor‑appointed members: five registered professional engineers and two registered professional land surveyors; five‑year terms, U.S. citizenship and five‑year Washington residency immediately prior to appointment, and at least ten years of active practice after registration with five years immediately prior to appointment). It authorizes pro tem board members (selection by the director with board approval and chair appointment), gives pro tems the powers and compensation of regular members for up to 180 days unless extended by the director, requires the board to appoint a director who must hold a Washington PE or PLS license, and authorizes adoption of bylaws, staffing, rosters, and other administrative rules. The bill amends registration, examination, and credentialing rules: it treats four years of board‑approved undergraduate engineering education as equivalent to four years of required experience (with limits on education credit and possible credit for postgraduate study), sets two‑stage exams (fundamentals and application/advanced) and enrollment as engineer‑in‑training or land‑surveyor‑in‑training upon passing the fundamentals exam, and requires certificates, seals, and signatures for practice. It recognizes structural engineering as a specialty, requires additional structural experience and an additional exam to be certified as a structural engineer, and requires registration as a structural engineer to provide structural engineering services for defined "significant structures" (a parenthetical waiver provision is present in the text but its full effect is not shown). The bill also amends practice by entities and renewal/discipline procedures: it requires corporations and limited liability companies to obtain a board certificate of authorization by filing an application, a certified resolution designating a responsible registered engineer or land surveyor, and related affidavits; the board will issue authorization only after verifying the designated person’s current Washington registration, exclusive designation status, Secretary of State and Department of Revenue registration, and the entity’s competence. LLCs must amend their operating agreement to vest final engineering or surveying decision authority in the designated person and must notify the board within 30 days of changes in designation or name. The bill requires notification of certificate expiration and sets a late renewal penalty (failure to pay within 90 days triggers payment of the current renewal fee plus an amount equal to one year’s fee), requires land surveyors to verify 15 hours of continuing professional development per year of the registration period, authorizes the board to set fees and collect them into its state treasury account, allows board disciplinary action against entities and individuals for unprofessional conduct, mandates immediate suspension of registration when DSHS certifies support‑order noncompliance with automatic reissuance upon DSHS release, and directs an interagency agreement with the Department of Licensing for technical services. Several provisions and contexts are truncated or unclear in the extracted text: portions of the experience equivalency provision (continuation of RCW 18.43.040), the text of RCW 18.43.080 on certificate validity periods, the full parenthetical waiver referenced for structural engineering, and some subsection cross‑references and deleted/edited language are missing, so the exact final wording and effect of those items cannot be confirmed from the provided extracts.

If enacted, the bill tightens who serves on the state board and how it operates, requires the board director to be a licensed engineer or land surveyor, clarifies how college and postgraduate study count toward experience for licensure, and requires a separate structural engineering registration to work on large or high-risk "significant structures." Practically, applicants should expect clearer limits on how much education can substitute for work experience, two-stage exams and enrollment as an engineer‑in‑training before advancing, mandatory use of a board seal on technical documents, renewal penalties if late, and a new requirement that land surveyors show 15 hours of continuing professional development per year. The board will set and collect initial and annual fees for corporate/LLC authorization and put those fees into its operating account, and the Department of Licensing will provide agreed technical services to support the board. Those most affected are licensure applicants and current registrants, companies that offer engineering or surveying services, and individuals named as the responsible licensed engineer or land surveyor for a corporation or LLC. Applicants and registrants may face added time and cost to meet experience, exam, structural‑specialty, and continuing education requirements; corporations and LLCs must formally designate and empower a licensed person, amend governing documents, notify the board within 30 days of changes, and pay board fees and renewals; managers, members, and officers face the same disciplinary exposure as individual registrants. The text omits some details such as exact fee amounts, the full registration experience rules, any structural‑engineering waiver conditions, and certificate validity periods, so the precise cost and procedural impacts remain partly uncertain.