2026-02-18                     Senate Journal                      Page 1714
SB 246                                                                                                                        
SENATE BILL NO. 246 BY SENATOR CLAMAN, entitled:                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
         "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."                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
was read the first time and referred to the Finance Committee.