what senate rule change could mean for 2nd amendment

[mr surveyor]

Here's an interesting and scary take on what's going on.

http://allenbwest.com/2013/11/every-d-c ... -registry/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The noose keeps getting tighter and tighter, and not just in the liberal utopias. Now, in Texas, in order to keep your PE license, you have to be fingerprinted and go through a separate background check. Other checks, like for CHL, don't count. We're all criminals now, or soon will be.

I have to ask where and when this new background check mandate started for P.E.'s? I'm not a PE, personally, but as a Professional Land Surveyor I do partner with a few PE's. I've asked around a bit since this was posted and none of the PE's I work with have any knowledge of this, and one today said he had just renewed his license in the last month. He's curious to know about this new mandate. For what it's worth, none of us do any DoD or other projects that may require security clearance. Could that be where this BG check requirement comes in?

Given the silly license fees and other "business fees" the state is milking us surveyors out of now, I don't doubt one bit what you state may be true for all of us pretty soon.


JD

It doesn't apply to anyone renewing a license in 2013.....but applies beginning in 2014. From the email I got from the TBPE:

As you are aware from previous correspondence from the Board, the 83rd Texas Legislature (2013 session) made a change to the Texas Engineering Practice Act that requires a one-time Criminal History Record Check (CHRC) for all new license applications and renewals of Active licenses after January 1, 2014. We have been working hard to implement the recent legislative requirement and we are now ready to start.

Thanks for the info.

I guess my cohorts are too busy to read their newsletters.

I passed it on to them.

JD