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Your Legislative Update for the month of June is below.  Please feel free to forward this on to others who might find the information useful!

A Note About PENC Lobbying Efforts …

PENC currently tracks about 100 bills.  However, the level of monitoring for each bill varies depending on its relevance to our mission and the profession of engineering.   

Our primary mission is to “promote ethical, competent, and licensed engineering and enhance the professional and economic well-being of our members.”  In regards to public policy, this means that we are actively engaged as a stakeholder or, in some cases taking the lead on any policy or legislation that deals with licensed engineering, the profession or practice of engineering, and engineering issues that affect the public health, safety and welfare.  Because we also feel that your PE license is THE most important factor in your economic well-being, security and prosperity and we have many members who own small businesses we also feel it is important to monitor and provide input on business and tax issues.  However, because there are other groups such as the NC Chamber and ACEC/NC and even groups like the Homebuilders Association whose PRIMARY interest is business, we frequently work with them on these issues but do not typically take the lead.  In addition, we are also involved in any education initiatives that promote or enhance science, technology, engineering and math education (STEM) as it relates to our mission of promoting licensed engineering.

With engineers working in industry, government, private practice, construction, and education and reflecting all disciplines – mechanical, electrical, civil, environmental, chemical, etc. it would be nearly impossible to cover every bill introduced that had the potential to affect you individually.  Therefore, by using our mission as my guide, I whittled down a list of thousands of introduced bills to 100 and, of those 100 (which I still track), there are less than 10 that require our active engagement  (high priority) and about 20 that we are closely monitoring.  These 30+ bills are included in your periodic bill updates provided below.