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SB54Introduced in the Senate

Arch, Eng, Surveyors; Reg Int Design

Vetoed

Introduced by Matt Claman, District H

What does this bill do?

Plain-English breakdown

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Official description

An Act relating to registered interior designers and interior design; relating to project costs for the construction, enlargement, or improvement of airports; extending the termination date of the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors; relating to the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors; establishing requirements for the practice of registered interior design; relating to the practice of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, and registered interior design; relating to the scope of the certification requirements for architects, engineers, land surveyors, landscape architects, and registered interior designers; relating to immunity for design professionals; relating to the cost of construction for recreation centers; relating to liens for labor or materials furnished; relating to the procurement of landscape architectural and interior design services; relating to the cost of construction of safe water and hygienic sewage disposal facilities in villages; and providing for an effective date.

Where it stands

VETOED BY GOVERNOR 9/22/2025

October 15, 2025

How did lawmakers vote?

House votes

1 recorded vote · each counted separately

Senate votes

1 recorded vote · each counted separately

HouseStage: House: Third Reading Final Passage · May 20, 2025

30

Yes

10

No

0

Absent or Not Voting

40 representatives recorded in this House vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each representative voted

RepresentativeDistrictVote
Jeremy Bynum1Yes
Rebecca Himschoot2Yes
Andrea Story3Yes
Sara Hannan4Yes
Louise Stutes5Yes
Sarah Vance6No
Justin Ruffridge7Yes
Bill Elam8No
Ky Holland9Yes
Charles Kopp10Yes

Bill history

  1. READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS

  2. L&C, FIN

  3. COSPONSOR(S): GRAY-JACKSON

  4. SPONSOR SUBSTITUTE INTRODUCED-REFERRALS

  5. L&C, FIN

  6. L&C RPT CS 2DP 2NR SAME TITLE

  7. DP: BJORKMAN, GRAY-JACKSON

  8. NR: MERRICK, YUNDT

  9. FN1: (CED)

  10. FIN RPT CS 1DP 5NR NEW TITLE

  11. DP: HOFFMAN

  12. NR: OLSON, STEDMAN, CRONK, MERRICK, KIEHL

  13. FN2: (CED)

  14. RULES TO CALENDAR 4/22/2025

  15. READ THE SECOND TIME

  16. FIN CS ADOPTED UC

  17. ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 4/23 CAL

  18. READ THE THIRD TIME CSSSSB 54(FIN)

  19. PASSED Y18 N2

  20. EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE

  21. TRANSMITTED TO (H)

  22. VERSION: CSSSSB 54(FIN)

  23. READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS

  24. L&C, FIN

  25. L&C RPT 4DP 2NR 1AM

  26. DP: BURKE, CARRICK, FIELDS, HALL

  27. NR: COULOMBE, NELSON

  28. AM: SADDLER

  29. FN2: (CED)

  30. FIN RPT 6DP 5NR

  31. DP: HANNAN, STAPP, GALVIN, JIMMIE, FOSTER, SCHRAGE

  32. NR: BYNUM, JOHNSON, ALLARD, TOMASZEWSKI, JOSEPHSON

  33. FN2: (CED)

  34. RULES TO CALENDAR 5/19/2025

  35. READ THE SECOND TIME

  36. ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 5/20 CALENDAR

  37. READ THE THIRD TIME CSSSSB 54(FIN)

  38. PASSED Y30 N10

  39. EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE

  40. RETURN TO (S), TRANSMIT TO GOVERNOR NEXT

  41. VERSION: CSSSSB 54(FIN)

  42. 1:40 P.M. 9/8/25 TRANSMITTED TO GOVERNOR

  43. MANIFEST ERROR(S)

  44. VETOED BY GOVERNOR 9/22/2025

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