Revises provisions relating to architects, professional engineers and land surveyors. (BDR 54-773)
AB 270 modifies Nevada's licensing requirements for architects, professional engineers, and land surveyors. It allows Pritzker Architecture Prize laureates to bypass the registration exam through 2026. For engineers and land surveyors, the bill removes the requirement to pass a "fundamentals" exam before taking the "principles and practices" exam and reduces the required experience for exam waivers from 15 to 10 years. Additionally, it shifts exam administration to the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. These changes affect new applicants seeking professional licensure in these fields.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Assembly Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Feb 20, 2025
Signed Jun 3, 2025
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This bill updates Nevada's professional licensing laws for architects, engineers, and land surveyors. It creates a special exemption allowing Pritzker Prize winners to practice architecture without taking exams. For engineers and land surveyors, it removes the requirement to pass the 'Fundamentals' exam before taking the 'Principles and Practices' exam and lowers the experience needed to waive the first exam from 15 years to 10 years.
Scope change
The bill applies to applicants for licensure as architects, professional engineers, and professional land surveyors in Nevada.
ELIGIBILITY
Architects who win the Pritzker Architecture Prize can now obtain a license without taking any required examinations.
REQUIREMENT
Engineers and land surveyors no longer need to pass the 'Fundamentals' exam before attempting the 'Principles and Practices' exam.
The experience required to waive the 'Fundamentals' exam was reduced from 15 years to 10 years of active experience.
The requirement for land surveyors to have an approved degree curriculum considered equivalent to four years of experience was removed.
Exams must now be administered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying or an approved equivalent, rather than following specific state content and administration rules.
Floor votes · Senate May 23, 2025 · Assembly Apr 22, 2025
How they voted
20–0
Passed
Total votes 20
May 23, 2025
D
Democratic12
100% Yea
R
Republican8
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
7
Committee
3
Jun 3, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor.
Chapter 244.
executive
May 27, 2025
Lower · Passed
Senate Amendment No. 590 concurred in. To enrollment.
lower
May 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint.
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
upper
May 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Placed on Second Reading File.
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 590.)
Reprinting dispensed with.
upper
Apr 22, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
lower
Apr 15, 2025
Lower · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
lower
Feb 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
From printer. To committee.
lower
3 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Elaine Marzola
DDemocratic
P
Greg Hafen
RRepublican
P
Shea Backus
DDemocratic
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