Under current Pennsylvania landscape architecture licensing law, an applicant can be a registered landscape architect (RLA) without examination if the person has 10 years of active experience as a landscape architect and is a graduate of an approved college or university. Candidates without a degree in landscape architecture, but with 15 years of active experience, can be registered as an RLA if the board approves the experience.

H.B. 703 would require all landscape architects seeking registration in Pennsylvania to undergo examination, regardless of their years of active experience, and would expand the criteria for continuing education of licensees.

Rep. Burns deems the current landscape architecture registration law outdated and said both landscape architects and the Pennsylvania State Board of Engineers support the bill.

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