Design dangers: occupational licensing lunacy.

AuthorRoot, Damon
PositionCitings - Brief article

IN MARCH, Florida's Republican governor, Rick Scott, threw his weight behind a bill that would remove the licensing requirements for 20 occupations, including hair braiding, ballroom dance instruction, and interior design. Faced with the eradication of its lucrative licensing regime, the interior design lobby insisted that the regulations are necessary to protect public safety.

"Do you know the color schemes that affect t your salivation, your autonomic nervous system?" asked Gall Griffin, a professor at Miami Dade College's School of Architecture and Interior Design, in an appearance before Florida's House Appropriation Committee. "By not allowing interior designers to be specialists and focus on the things they do," Tampa...

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