§ 6721 Engineering Licensure Cooperation

Business and Professions Code·California

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•The board works with other groups that oversee engineers in different states and countries.
•They want to make sure all engineers follow the same high standards.
•They also want to make it easier for engineers to work in different places by recognizing their licenses.

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An engineer licensed in California wants to work on a project in Texas.

The board talks to Texas's engineering group to make sure both states agree on the rules and accept each other's licenses. This way, the engineer can work in Texas without taking extra tests.

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§ 6721 Engineering Licensure Cooperation

The board shall establish relations with bodies that regulate the practice of professional engineering, or closely related professions, or that register or license professional engineers in other states, and may establish relations with those bodies in other countries, for the purposes of working toward uniformly high professional standards and mutual recognition of registration and licensure. (Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 432, Sec. 5. (SB 944) Effective January 1, 2012.)

Last verified: January 23, 2026

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registration license the california board professional engineers recognition

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California Legislature. Business and Professions Code. Section 6721.

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