I haven't heard of that in particular but there have been changes made in my state recently to allow people to get a couple years of their experience for PS and PE at the same time. Additionally, I believe there are some changes coming to allow people who have done surveying work for a significant amount of time to more easily bridge the gap of coursework to get a PS proper. Can't find a source, so I can't confirm the exact details. They had some numbers to back it up that there were significantly more people testing for their PS and it wasn't just the covid backlog.
The PE & PS thing is doubly important here where the County Engineer is required to have both licenses, so I believe its a good thing to allow some of the time to be able to be earned at the same time. Otherwise it is 4 solid years as an engineer and 4 solid years as a surveyor, both separately.
So far as muddying the waters between the duties of a PE and a PS, I don't think that is a good thing for either profession. It sounds like the type of thing you would do if desperate to fill a skill gap without actually training anyone properly. Along with that it will devalue both engineers and surveyors, by making them less specialized and increasing the pool of labor available to whatever tasks are then shared by both licenses.