California 2021 2021-2022 Regular Session

California Senate Bill SB1487 Amended / Bill

Filed 03/16/2022

                    Amended IN  Senate  March 16, 2022 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 1487Introduced by Senator RubioFebruary 18, 2022 An act to amend add Section 6704 of the Business and Professions 44259.11 to the Education Code, relating to professions and vocations. teacher credentialing.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1487, as amended, Rubio. Professional Engineers Act: titles. Teacher credentialing: Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program.Existing law establishes minimum requirements for the issuance of teaching credentials by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, as provided, including satisfactory completion of a program of an accredited professional preparation program. Existing law authorizes a regionally accredited institution of higher education to offer a 4-year integrated program of professional preparation that allows a student to earn a baccalaureate degree and a preliminary multiple- or single-subject teaching credential, or an education specialist instruction credential authorizing the holder to teach special education, including student teaching requirements, concurrently and within 4 years of study, as specified. Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the primary state agency for administering state-authorized student financial aid programs available to students attending all segments of postsecondary education. This bill would establish the Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. The bill would, subject to an appropriation, require qualified undergraduate students who are enrolled in integrated programs of professional preparation provided by regionally accredited institutions of higher education, and in good academic standing, to receive a full tuition grant award in an amount equal to the amount charged to that student in that academic year for mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. The bill would establish the Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Fund in the State Treasury, to be funded through an appropriation from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act.Existing law, the Professional Engineers Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of professional engineers by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law prohibits a person from practicing civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering unless that person is appropriately licensed or exempted from licensure pursuant to the act.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NOYES  Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 44259.11 is added to the Education Code, to read:44259.11. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, California school districts were facing a critical shortage of credentialed teachers.(2) During the pandemic, the shortage has expanded to an extraordinary crisis where teachers are both leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers and the number of teachers entering the profession is at an all-time low.(3) Individuals interested in becoming teachers face any number of impediments and barriers to acquiring a teaching credential, chief among them the cost of acquiring a credential and the time required.(4) Providing clear financial support to a demonstrated and proven teacher preparation program can help, in short order, produce well-qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.(5) Established in 2005, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs were created in an effort to reduce the financial burden on students interested in teaching, while also creating a more efficient process to get highly qualified and credentialed teachers into California classrooms.(6) Since their establishment, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs have become proven and valuable, yet underutilized, programs in developing qualified and credentialed teachers, and have demonstrated they can be a reliable and ongoing source of qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.(7) Greater state investment is needed to further attract and increase the number of students who can pursue their teaching credential through this pathway.(b) For purposes of this section, integrated undergraduate credentialing program means an integrated program of professional preparation as provided for in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 44259.1.(c) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. Subject to an available and sufficient appropriation, a qualified undergraduate student who is enrolled in an integrated undergraduate credentialing program provided by a regionally accredited institution of higher education, and is in good academic standing as determined by the Student Aid Commission, shall receive a full tuition grant award in an amount equal to the amount charged to that student in that academic year for mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. (d) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The fund shall be funded through an appropriation from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act. Appropriated funds shall not count towards the minimum state school funding obligation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.SECTION 1.Section 6704 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:6704.(a)In order to safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare, a person shall not practice civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering unless appropriately licensed or specifically exempted from licensure under this chapter. Only persons licensed under this chapter shall be entitled to take and use the titles consulting engineer, professional engineer, or registered engineer, or any combination of those titles or abbreviations thereof, and according to licensure with the board the engineering branch titles specified in Section 6732, or the authority titles specified in Sections 6736 and 6736.1, or the title engineer-in-training.(b)This section shall not prevent the use of the title consulting engineer by a person who has qualified for and maintained exemption for using that title pursuant to Section 6732.1, or by a person licensed as a photogrammetric surveyor.

 Amended IN  Senate  March 16, 2022 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 1487Introduced by Senator RubioFebruary 18, 2022 An act to amend add Section 6704 of the Business and Professions 44259.11 to the Education Code, relating to professions and vocations. teacher credentialing.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 1487, as amended, Rubio. Professional Engineers Act: titles. Teacher credentialing: Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program.Existing law establishes minimum requirements for the issuance of teaching credentials by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, as provided, including satisfactory completion of a program of an accredited professional preparation program. Existing law authorizes a regionally accredited institution of higher education to offer a 4-year integrated program of professional preparation that allows a student to earn a baccalaureate degree and a preliminary multiple- or single-subject teaching credential, or an education specialist instruction credential authorizing the holder to teach special education, including student teaching requirements, concurrently and within 4 years of study, as specified. Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the primary state agency for administering state-authorized student financial aid programs available to students attending all segments of postsecondary education. This bill would establish the Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. The bill would, subject to an appropriation, require qualified undergraduate students who are enrolled in integrated programs of professional preparation provided by regionally accredited institutions of higher education, and in good academic standing, to receive a full tuition grant award in an amount equal to the amount charged to that student in that academic year for mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. The bill would establish the Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Fund in the State Treasury, to be funded through an appropriation from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act.Existing law, the Professional Engineers Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of professional engineers by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law prohibits a person from practicing civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering unless that person is appropriately licensed or exempted from licensure pursuant to the act.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NOYES  Local Program: NO 

 Amended IN  Senate  March 16, 2022

Amended IN  Senate  March 16, 2022

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill 

No. 1487

Introduced by Senator RubioFebruary 18, 2022

Introduced by Senator Rubio
February 18, 2022

 An act to amend add Section 6704 of the Business and Professions 44259.11 to the Education Code, relating to professions and vocations. teacher credentialing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1487, as amended, Rubio. Professional Engineers Act: titles. Teacher credentialing: Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program.

Existing law establishes minimum requirements for the issuance of teaching credentials by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, as provided, including satisfactory completion of a program of an accredited professional preparation program. Existing law authorizes a regionally accredited institution of higher education to offer a 4-year integrated program of professional preparation that allows a student to earn a baccalaureate degree and a preliminary multiple- or single-subject teaching credential, or an education specialist instruction credential authorizing the holder to teach special education, including student teaching requirements, concurrently and within 4 years of study, as specified. Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the primary state agency for administering state-authorized student financial aid programs available to students attending all segments of postsecondary education. This bill would establish the Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. The bill would, subject to an appropriation, require qualified undergraduate students who are enrolled in integrated programs of professional preparation provided by regionally accredited institutions of higher education, and in good academic standing, to receive a full tuition grant award in an amount equal to the amount charged to that student in that academic year for mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. The bill would establish the Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Fund in the State Treasury, to be funded through an appropriation from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act.Existing law, the Professional Engineers Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of professional engineers by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law prohibits a person from practicing civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering unless that person is appropriately licensed or exempted from licensure pursuant to the act.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

Existing law establishes minimum requirements for the issuance of teaching credentials by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, as provided, including satisfactory completion of a program of an accredited professional preparation program. Existing law authorizes a regionally accredited institution of higher education to offer a 4-year integrated program of professional preparation that allows a student to earn a baccalaureate degree and a preliminary multiple- or single-subject teaching credential, or an education specialist instruction credential authorizing the holder to teach special education, including student teaching requirements, concurrently and within 4 years of study, as specified. Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the primary state agency for administering state-authorized student financial aid programs available to students attending all segments of postsecondary education. 

This bill would establish the Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. The bill would, subject to an appropriation, require qualified undergraduate students who are enrolled in integrated programs of professional preparation provided by regionally accredited institutions of higher education, and in good academic standing, to receive a full tuition grant award in an amount equal to the amount charged to that student in that academic year for mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. The bill would establish the Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Fund in the State Treasury, to be funded through an appropriation from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act.

Existing law, the Professional Engineers Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of professional engineers by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law prohibits a person from practicing civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering unless that person is appropriately licensed or exempted from licensure pursuant to the act.



This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.



## Digest Key

## Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 44259.11 is added to the Education Code, to read:44259.11. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, California school districts were facing a critical shortage of credentialed teachers.(2) During the pandemic, the shortage has expanded to an extraordinary crisis where teachers are both leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers and the number of teachers entering the profession is at an all-time low.(3) Individuals interested in becoming teachers face any number of impediments and barriers to acquiring a teaching credential, chief among them the cost of acquiring a credential and the time required.(4) Providing clear financial support to a demonstrated and proven teacher preparation program can help, in short order, produce well-qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.(5) Established in 2005, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs were created in an effort to reduce the financial burden on students interested in teaching, while also creating a more efficient process to get highly qualified and credentialed teachers into California classrooms.(6) Since their establishment, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs have become proven and valuable, yet underutilized, programs in developing qualified and credentialed teachers, and have demonstrated they can be a reliable and ongoing source of qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.(7) Greater state investment is needed to further attract and increase the number of students who can pursue their teaching credential through this pathway.(b) For purposes of this section, integrated undergraduate credentialing program means an integrated program of professional preparation as provided for in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 44259.1.(c) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. Subject to an available and sufficient appropriation, a qualified undergraduate student who is enrolled in an integrated undergraduate credentialing program provided by a regionally accredited institution of higher education, and is in good academic standing as determined by the Student Aid Commission, shall receive a full tuition grant award in an amount equal to the amount charged to that student in that academic year for mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. (d) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The fund shall be funded through an appropriation from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act. Appropriated funds shall not count towards the minimum state school funding obligation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.SECTION 1.Section 6704 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:6704.(a)In order to safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare, a person shall not practice civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering unless appropriately licensed or specifically exempted from licensure under this chapter. Only persons licensed under this chapter shall be entitled to take and use the titles consulting engineer, professional engineer, or registered engineer, or any combination of those titles or abbreviations thereof, and according to licensure with the board the engineering branch titles specified in Section 6732, or the authority titles specified in Sections 6736 and 6736.1, or the title engineer-in-training.(b)This section shall not prevent the use of the title consulting engineer by a person who has qualified for and maintained exemption for using that title pursuant to Section 6732.1, or by a person licensed as a photogrammetric surveyor.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 44259.11 is added to the Education Code, to read:44259.11. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, California school districts were facing a critical shortage of credentialed teachers.(2) During the pandemic, the shortage has expanded to an extraordinary crisis where teachers are both leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers and the number of teachers entering the profession is at an all-time low.(3) Individuals interested in becoming teachers face any number of impediments and barriers to acquiring a teaching credential, chief among them the cost of acquiring a credential and the time required.(4) Providing clear financial support to a demonstrated and proven teacher preparation program can help, in short order, produce well-qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.(5) Established in 2005, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs were created in an effort to reduce the financial burden on students interested in teaching, while also creating a more efficient process to get highly qualified and credentialed teachers into California classrooms.(6) Since their establishment, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs have become proven and valuable, yet underutilized, programs in developing qualified and credentialed teachers, and have demonstrated they can be a reliable and ongoing source of qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.(7) Greater state investment is needed to further attract and increase the number of students who can pursue their teaching credential through this pathway.(b) For purposes of this section, integrated undergraduate credentialing program means an integrated program of professional preparation as provided for in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 44259.1.(c) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. Subject to an available and sufficient appropriation, a qualified undergraduate student who is enrolled in an integrated undergraduate credentialing program provided by a regionally accredited institution of higher education, and is in good academic standing as determined by the Student Aid Commission, shall receive a full tuition grant award in an amount equal to the amount charged to that student in that academic year for mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. (d) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The fund shall be funded through an appropriation from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act. Appropriated funds shall not count towards the minimum state school funding obligation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

SECTION 1. Section 44259.11 is added to the Education Code, to read:

### SECTION 1.

44259.11. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, California school districts were facing a critical shortage of credentialed teachers.(2) During the pandemic, the shortage has expanded to an extraordinary crisis where teachers are both leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers and the number of teachers entering the profession is at an all-time low.(3) Individuals interested in becoming teachers face any number of impediments and barriers to acquiring a teaching credential, chief among them the cost of acquiring a credential and the time required.(4) Providing clear financial support to a demonstrated and proven teacher preparation program can help, in short order, produce well-qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.(5) Established in 2005, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs were created in an effort to reduce the financial burden on students interested in teaching, while also creating a more efficient process to get highly qualified and credentialed teachers into California classrooms.(6) Since their establishment, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs have become proven and valuable, yet underutilized, programs in developing qualified and credentialed teachers, and have demonstrated they can be a reliable and ongoing source of qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.(7) Greater state investment is needed to further attract and increase the number of students who can pursue their teaching credential through this pathway.(b) For purposes of this section, integrated undergraduate credentialing program means an integrated program of professional preparation as provided for in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 44259.1.(c) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. Subject to an available and sufficient appropriation, a qualified undergraduate student who is enrolled in an integrated undergraduate credentialing program provided by a regionally accredited institution of higher education, and is in good academic standing as determined by the Student Aid Commission, shall receive a full tuition grant award in an amount equal to the amount charged to that student in that academic year for mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. (d) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The fund shall be funded through an appropriation from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act. Appropriated funds shall not count towards the minimum state school funding obligation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

44259.11. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, California school districts were facing a critical shortage of credentialed teachers.(2) During the pandemic, the shortage has expanded to an extraordinary crisis where teachers are both leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers and the number of teachers entering the profession is at an all-time low.(3) Individuals interested in becoming teachers face any number of impediments and barriers to acquiring a teaching credential, chief among them the cost of acquiring a credential and the time required.(4) Providing clear financial support to a demonstrated and proven teacher preparation program can help, in short order, produce well-qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.(5) Established in 2005, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs were created in an effort to reduce the financial burden on students interested in teaching, while also creating a more efficient process to get highly qualified and credentialed teachers into California classrooms.(6) Since their establishment, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs have become proven and valuable, yet underutilized, programs in developing qualified and credentialed teachers, and have demonstrated they can be a reliable and ongoing source of qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.(7) Greater state investment is needed to further attract and increase the number of students who can pursue their teaching credential through this pathway.(b) For purposes of this section, integrated undergraduate credentialing program means an integrated program of professional preparation as provided for in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 44259.1.(c) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. Subject to an available and sufficient appropriation, a qualified undergraduate student who is enrolled in an integrated undergraduate credentialing program provided by a regionally accredited institution of higher education, and is in good academic standing as determined by the Student Aid Commission, shall receive a full tuition grant award in an amount equal to the amount charged to that student in that academic year for mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. (d) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The fund shall be funded through an appropriation from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act. Appropriated funds shall not count towards the minimum state school funding obligation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

44259.11. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, California school districts were facing a critical shortage of credentialed teachers.(2) During the pandemic, the shortage has expanded to an extraordinary crisis where teachers are both leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers and the number of teachers entering the profession is at an all-time low.(3) Individuals interested in becoming teachers face any number of impediments and barriers to acquiring a teaching credential, chief among them the cost of acquiring a credential and the time required.(4) Providing clear financial support to a demonstrated and proven teacher preparation program can help, in short order, produce well-qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.(5) Established in 2005, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs were created in an effort to reduce the financial burden on students interested in teaching, while also creating a more efficient process to get highly qualified and credentialed teachers into California classrooms.(6) Since their establishment, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs have become proven and valuable, yet underutilized, programs in developing qualified and credentialed teachers, and have demonstrated they can be a reliable and ongoing source of qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.(7) Greater state investment is needed to further attract and increase the number of students who can pursue their teaching credential through this pathway.(b) For purposes of this section, integrated undergraduate credentialing program means an integrated program of professional preparation as provided for in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 44259.1.(c) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. Subject to an available and sufficient appropriation, a qualified undergraduate student who is enrolled in an integrated undergraduate credentialing program provided by a regionally accredited institution of higher education, and is in good academic standing as determined by the Student Aid Commission, shall receive a full tuition grant award in an amount equal to the amount charged to that student in that academic year for mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. (d) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The fund shall be funded through an appropriation from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act. Appropriated funds shall not count towards the minimum state school funding obligation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.



44259.11. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, California school districts were facing a critical shortage of credentialed teachers.

(2) During the pandemic, the shortage has expanded to an extraordinary crisis where teachers are both leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers and the number of teachers entering the profession is at an all-time low.

(3) Individuals interested in becoming teachers face any number of impediments and barriers to acquiring a teaching credential, chief among them the cost of acquiring a credential and the time required.

(4) Providing clear financial support to a demonstrated and proven teacher preparation program can help, in short order, produce well-qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.

(5) Established in 2005, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs were created in an effort to reduce the financial burden on students interested in teaching, while also creating a more efficient process to get highly qualified and credentialed teachers into California classrooms.

(6) Since their establishment, integrated undergraduate credentialing programs have become proven and valuable, yet underutilized, programs in developing qualified and credentialed teachers, and have demonstrated they can be a reliable and ongoing source of qualified teachers at a time when California schools are in great need.

(7) Greater state investment is needed to further attract and increase the number of students who can pursue their teaching credential through this pathway.

(b) For purposes of this section, integrated undergraduate credentialing program means an integrated program of professional preparation as provided for in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 44259.1.

(c) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. Subject to an available and sufficient appropriation, a qualified undergraduate student who is enrolled in an integrated undergraduate credentialing program provided by a regionally accredited institution of higher education, and is in good academic standing as determined by the Student Aid Commission, shall receive a full tuition grant award in an amount equal to the amount charged to that student in that academic year for mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. 

(d) The Integrated Undergraduate Credentialing Tuition Grant Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The fund shall be funded through an appropriation from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act. Appropriated funds shall not count towards the minimum state school funding obligation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.





(a)In order to safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare, a person shall not practice civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering unless appropriately licensed or specifically exempted from licensure under this chapter. Only persons licensed under this chapter shall be entitled to take and use the titles consulting engineer, professional engineer, or registered engineer, or any combination of those titles or abbreviations thereof, and according to licensure with the board the engineering branch titles specified in Section 6732, or the authority titles specified in Sections 6736 and 6736.1, or the title engineer-in-training.



(b)This section shall not prevent the use of the title consulting engineer by a person who has qualified for and maintained exemption for using that title pursuant to Section 6732.1, or by a person licensed as a photogrammetric surveyor.