The COVID Project
Context, not an orderThis record is guidance or an announcement kept for context. It is not counted among the orders in force.
The record
- Jurisdiction
- All States; National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (the council of the State engineering and surveying licensing boards, which administers the FE, PE, FS and PS examinations for every board)
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Member boards' adoption of NCEES examinations
- Issued
- 2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-13
- End
- mask and capacity rules through 2021 (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Mar. 13, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementOther
- Addressees
- engineering and surveying licensure candidates
- State boards
- Functions reached
- HR admission of new professional engineers and surveyors (April 2020 cycle cancelled; capacity-limited computer-based testing through 2021)
- GATH exam sittings
- Character
- context
- Collection
- State trade licensing boards AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS
Operative words
June 19, 2020: Due to the number of examinees impacted by the cancellation of the April 2020 [exam administration]... concerns about taking the October 2020 exam... March 16, 2021: Pearson VUE test centers increasing capacity. As vaccines are distributed and cases of COVID-19 continue to decline, many state and local governments are easing operational and capacity restrictions, meaning Pearson VUE can increase the number of examinees allowed in testing rooms....
Enforcement
Admission to the examination conditioned on compliance
Notes
Rendered from the live page (2022 version) which preserves the dated entries back to 2020; Ex. 032 is the Mar. 13, 2020 release itself.
Retrieval noteNCEES is not itself a governmental authority; its actions are the facts through which State board exam requirements operated. Graded secondary for that reason. it is not itself an order, rule, directive, resolution or condition of a license or contract. Cite it as context and cite the underlying order or statute as the instrument).