RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper signed the following bill into law:

• Senate Bill 219: Surveyor Lic.& Ed.Req's/Constr.Contract Rev's.

An act to revise the education requirements for licensure of a professional land surveyor, to make various technical changes, to clarify the design-build and design-build bridging statutes, to prohibit waiver of future claims for progress payments on construction contracts, to require attorneys' fees in certain lien claims, and to define the term "supplier" as used in a provision of the alcohol control laws.