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Committee advances HB512 to update survey coordinate references and expand licensure pathways
Summary
The committee passed HB512 as amended; the bill updates statutory coordinate system references to align with 2022 practice and creates alternate education-and-experience pathways to land surveyor licensure while preserving a competency exam.
A sponsor presented HB512 to the House Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Standing Committee as a technical update to Utah’s land-surveying statutes and a set of alternative pathways to licensure.
"We are just recognizing what is already best practice," the sponsor said, describing an update to the plane coordinate system reference from older statutory citations to current practice and assurances that the bill will not change property lines. Trent Williams of the Utah Council of Land Surveyors explained the bill does not alter legal descriptions and described how the Salt Lake Base and Meridian underpins the state’s legal descriptions.
The committee adopted Amendment 1 — described by the sponsor as aligning reciprocity language — then voted to pass HB512 as amended with a favorable recommendation and place the bill on the consent calendar for the House floor.
Next steps: HB512 will appear on the floor under the consent calendar with the committee’s favorable recommendation.
