Bill Text: IA SF408 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

Iowa Senate Bill 408 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: A bill for an act requiring licensure rather than registration of architects practicing in this state. (Formerly SSB 1122.) Effective 7-1-17.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-11 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 1135. [SF408 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF408-Enrolled.html

Senate File 408 - Enrolled

SENATE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

(SUCCESSOR TO SSB
1122)
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A BILL FOR
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Senate File 408

AN ACT
REQUIRING LICENSURE RATHER THAN REGISTRATION OF
ARCHITECTS PRACTICING IN THIS STATE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. Section 100C.10, subsection 2, paragraph e, Code
2017, is amended to read as follows:
e. One professional engineer or architect licensed or
registered in the state.
Sec. 2. Section 499B.6, Code 2017, is amended to read as
follows:
499B.6 Copy of the floor plans to be filed.
There shall be attached to the declaration, at the time
it is filed, a full and an exact copy of the plans of the
building, which copy shall be entered of record along with the
declaration. The plans shall show graphically all particulars
of the building including but not limited to the dimensions,
area, and location of common elements affording access to each
apartment. Other common elements, both limited and general,
shall be shown graphically insofar as possible and shall be
certified to by an engineer, architect, or land surveyor, who
is registered or licensed to practice that profession in this
state.
Sec. 3. Section 544A.16, Code 2017, is amended by adding the
following new subsection:
NEW SUBSECTION. 6A. "License" means the license issued to
an architect by the board.
Sec. 4. Section 544A.16, subsection 12, Code 2017, is
amended by striking the subsection.
Sec. 5. Section 544A.17, subsection 2, Code 2017, is amended
to read as follows:
2. Persons acting under the instruction, control or
supervision of, and those executing the plans of, a registered
licensed architect or a professional engineer licensed
under chapter 542B, provided that such unregistered or
unlicensed persons shall not be placed in responsible charge of
architectural or professional engineering work.
Sec. 6. NEW SECTION. 544A.30 Registered architects.
Any person who is registered as an architect pursuant to
this chapter on July 1, 2017, shall be deemed to be licensed to
practice as an architect.
Sec. 7. CODE EDITOR DIRECTIVES .
1. Sections 544A.1, 544A.3, 544A.9, 544A.10, 544A.18,
and 544B.12, Code 2017, are amended by striking the word
"registered" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "licensed".
2. Sections 26.3, subsection 2; 35A.10, subsection 2;
103.22, subsection 1; 103A.19, subsection 3; 105.11, subsection
1; 218.58, subsection 2; 358.16, subsection 2, paragraph "c";
384.103, subsection 2, paragraph "a"; 441.31, subsection
1; 544A.15, subsection 1 and subsection 3, paragraph "a",
unnumbered paragraph 1, and subsection 3, paragraph "a",
subparagraphs (2) and (5), and subsection 3, paragraph "d";
544A.25, subsection 2, paragraph "d"; 544A.28, subsection
3; 544B.20, subsections 2 and 3; and 669.2, subsection 4,
paragraph "c", Code 2017, are amended by striking the word
"registered" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "licensed".
3. Sections 544A.1, 544A.3, 544A.5, and 544A.9, Code 2017,
are amended by striking the words "certificate of registration"
and inserting in lieu thereof the word "license".
4. Sections 544A.8, subsection 1; 544A.11, subsection 1;
544A.15, subsection 3, paragraph "a", subparagraphs (3), (4),
and (6); and 544A.16, subsection 10, Code 2017, are amended by
striking the words "certificate of registration" and inserting
in lieu thereof the word "license".
5. Section 544A.9, Code 2017, is amended by striking the
word "certificate" and inserting in lieu thereof the word
"license".
6. Sections 544A.11, subsection 1; and 544A.13, subsections
2 and 3, Code 2017, are amended by striking the word
"certificate" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "license".
7. Section 544A.10, Code 2017, is amended by striking the
word "certificate's" and inserting in lieu thereof the word
"license's".
8. Sections 544A.3 and 544A.10, Code 2017, are amended by
striking the words "certificates of registration" and inserting
in lieu thereof the word "licenses".
9. Section 544A.8, subsection 1, Code 2017, is amended by
striking the word "certification" and inserting in lieu thereof
the word "licensure".
10. Section 544A.5, Code 2017, is amended by striking the
word "registration" and inserting in lieu thereof the word
"licensure".
11. Sections 544A.8, subsections 3 and 4; 544A.15,
subsection 1; and 544A.25, subsection 1 and subsection 2,
paragraphs "b" and "d", Code 2017, are amended by striking the
word "registration" and inserting in lieu thereof the word
"licensure".
12. Section 544A.16, subsection 1, Code 2017, is amended by
striking the word "registration" and inserting in lieu thereof
the word "license".
13. Section 544A.25, subsection 3, Code 2017, is amended by
striking the word "register" and inserting in lieu thereof the
word "license".
14. Section 544A.15, subsection 3, paragraph "a",
subparagraph (7), Code 2017, is amended by striking the
word "unregistered" and inserting in lieu thereof the word
"unlicensed".

JACK WHITVER

LINDA UPMEYER

W. CHARLES SMITH

TERRY E. BRANSTA

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