BRIEF: Designers will stay regulated
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[February 12, 2012]

BRIEF: Designers will stay regulated

Feb 12, 2012 (The Virginian-Pilot - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Gov. Bob McDonnell has proposed deregulating three professions -- hair braiders, interior designers and mold removers. As the General Assembly nears the halftime of its session, one of those professions has gained ground in its fight to stay regulated.


The winner (or loser, depending on your perspective): designers.

The state Senate has endorsed dropping regs for braiders and mold workers, but deleted the proposal to deregulate interior designers. A House committee also stripped the designer-deregulation language from its version of the bill Thursday.


Local designer Matthew Lee partly credits a lobbying drive by state designer groups. They engineered a letter-writing campaign and met with legislators "to put a face to the profession," said Lee, professional development director of the Virginia chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers.

The profession is committed to "upholding the health, safety and welfare of all people that interact with the environments that we touch," said Lee, who works for Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Co. in Norfolk. "I think it's very important that people who are responsible for those types of things are watched over by the state, just like they do in architecture." ___ (c)2012 The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) Visit The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) at pilotonline.com Distributed by MCT Information Services

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