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Georgia House approves package to change professional licensing rules for engineers and contractors
Summary
The House passed a rules committee substitute that combines Senate Bill 125 with related House measures to let engineering graduates sit for the PE exam before completing a four‑year internship and to add continuing‑education tracking and regulatory cleanup for several contractor trades.
Representative Lauren McDonald presented Senate Bill 125 and related measures to the House, saying the package “decoupl[es] the sequential order of the internship hours and the PE exam.” The rules committee substitute combines SB 125 with House Bill 34 and HB 187; the substitute was adopted and the combined bill passed the House on a recorded vote of 104 yeas and 61 nays.
Why it matters: Supporters said the change will let recent engineering graduates take the professional engineering (PE) exam while they are still in “test‑taking mode,” while preserving the requirement that graduates complete a…
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