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HB 3331

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2025 Regular Session Introduced by Tom Clark

Extends the Professional Geologist Licensing Act, delaying repeal to 2031, and updates licensing rules (contact records, inactive status) to preserve state geologist oversight.

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Bill Summary · HB 3331

Summary — HB 3331 (104th General Assembly)

Title: Relating to catastrophic disaster / Professional Geologist Licensing Act amendments
Introduced: February 2025 (Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.)
Status: In committee upon adjournment (6/28/2025) — companion: SB 1572

Purpose / Intent

HB 3331 primarily extends and revises Illinois' regulation of professional geologists by postponing the scheduled repeal of the Professional Geologist Licensing Act and updating many administrative, licensure, and enforcement provisions. The overall intent is to continue licensure oversight of geologists and to modernize administrative requirements (contact data, inactive status, application identifiers) and procedural provisions governing the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) and the Board of Licensing for Professional Geologists.

Key provisions

  • Repealer timing
    • Moves the scheduled repeal of the Professional Geologist Licensing Act from January 1, 2026 to January 1, 2031 (adds a new Regulatory Sunset Act entry repealing it on 1/1/2031). Provisions amending the Regulatory Sunset Act take effect immediately.
  • New/changed record-keeping requirements
    • Requires applicants and licensees to provide a valid “address of record” and “email address of record” at application/renewal.
    • Requires notifying the Department of any change in address or email within 14 days (via the Department website or licensure maintenance unit).
  • Application content and identification
    • Adds or clarifies inclusion of Social Security Number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number on applications (text indicates such provisions are added, though full form not shown in excerpt).
  • Licensure status and procedures
    • Adds ability to place a license on inactive status (procedural details not fully shown in excerpt).
    • Revises multiple sections related to exemptions; restrictions; powers/duties of IDFPR and the Board; original license applications; examinations; qualifications; endorsement; expiration/renewal; returned checks/fines; disciplinary actions; injunctive actions; investigations; Board findings; rehearings; hearing officers; surrender of license; violations; confidentiality; and other administrative matters.
  • Definitions and scope
    • Updates and clarifies definitions (e.g., “Practice of professional geology,” “Geology,” “Licensed Professional Geologist,” “Responsible charge,” “address of record,” “email address of record”).
    • Broadens or clarifies examples of professional geology activities (mapping, sampling, data interpretation, supervision of geologic data gathering, environmental property audits, groundwater-related analyses).

Who is affected

  • Licensed and prospective Licensed Professional Geologists in Illinois (requirements for contact info, identifiers, inactive status).
  • Applicants to IDFPR and the Board for geologist licensure.
  • Employers, consultants, public agencies and clients who rely on licensed geologists for work affecting public health, safety, property, and the environment.
  • IDFPR and the Board of Licensing for Professional Geologists (administrative and enforcement workload).

Procedural / timeline notes

  • Regulatory Sunset Act amendment (moving repeal date) is effective immediately upon enactment.
  • The underlying Professional Geologist Licensing Act changes affect licensing, enforcement, and recordkeeping once the bill is enacted and effective per its terms.
  • Current legislative status: advanced through committee activity (public hearing, committee substitute considered) and was left pending in committee as of adjournment (6/28/2025).

Net impact / considerations

  • Preserves state licensure oversight of geologists for an additional five years (through 2031).
  • Imposes additional administrative duties on licensees (timely updates of contact info; potential use of SSN/ITIN for applications).
  • Likely administrative adjustments at IDFPR (licensure maintenance processes and confidentiality handling).
  • Many substantive detail changes are referenced but not shown in the excerpt; review the full bill text for specifics on disciplinary standards, confidentiality exceptions, fee impacts, and inactive status procedures.

For full statutory text and precise operative language, consult the official bill text and related rulemaking materials.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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