Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors meets; board adopts rule changes, licensing conditions and several consent orders

The Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors met in public session to consider licensing, rulemaking and enforcement matters and to review agency operations and budget projections.

The board heard a public comment from Holt Carson, a land professional who said a complaint he filed in January 2024 remained unresolved. “Here we sit now 16 months on and counting,” Carson said, adding the case involved what he described as “a series of surveys that were riddled [with] violations.” Chair and staff said they would have staff follow up. “I would make sure that one of our staff would get in touch with you very quickly and update you on your complaint,” a board member told Carson.

In financial and administrative reports, the board received a second‑quarter budget update showing positive variances in both revenue and expenses and a projected agency fund balance of roughly $3,000,000 by the end of the fiscal year. The finance…