Seems that interior designers want themselves professionalized. And that gets done if you are required to have a state license.
Seriously? A license to design. Rhetorically, sure, I've seen enough pooly designed spaces to make me think a license would be good, but, really? Hey, guys, if you've been in a regulated profession you know that regulations really don't do much to control quality (See eg: Lawyers). They control quantity, which might keep your prices up. Ohhhh, I get it. Noble.
Like Dan Walters says:
There is an underlying philosophical point in this duel, as in all of the political struggles over scope of practice: Is there any real public interest at stake here, or, as is so often the case, is it merely an economic rivalry?
It's been evident in the medical scope of practice battles that the potential effect on patients' health of allowing someone to perform some medical procedure was the least influential element in the outcome.
In this case, one must wonder whether licensing interior designers is of any material benefit to the public or, as Indiana Gov. Mitchell Daniels said as he vetoed a similar bill last year, "the principal effect … will be to restrain competition and limit new entrants into the occupation."
Uh-huh, ya think?
Use your Legislature for good, not evil!
No more regulation.
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