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                                                                  H.B. No. 2179




AN ACT

relating to the practice of professional surveying.                           
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 1071.002(6), Occupations Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
		(6)  "Professional surveying" means the practice of 
land, boundary, or property surveying or other similar professional 
practices.  The term includes:
			(A)  performing any service or work the adequate 
performance of which involves applying special knowledge of the 
principles of geodesy, mathematics, related applied and physical 
sciences, and relevant laws to the measurement or location of 
sites, points, lines, angles, elevations, natural features, and 
existing man-made works in the air, on the earth's surface, within 
underground workings, and on the beds of bodies of water to 
determine areas and volumes for:
				(i)  locating real property boundaries;                                     
				(ii)  platting and laying out land and 
subdivisions of land; or           
				(iii)  preparing and perpetuating maps, 
record plats, field note records, easements, and real property 
descriptions that represent those surveys; and
			(B)  consulting, investigating, evaluating, 
analyzing, planning, providing an expert surveying opinion or 
testimony, acquiring survey data, preparing technical reports, and 
mapping to the extent those acts are performed in connection with 
acts described by this subdivision [Paragraph (A)].
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.




______________________________              ______________________________
 
   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 2179 was passed by the House on April 
14, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not 
voting.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 2179 was passed by the Senate on May 
19, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



APPROVED:  _____________________                                            
 
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                 Governor