Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation
 
Board
Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers, and Landscape Architects
 
chapter
Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers, and Landscape Architects Regulations [18 VAC 10 ‑ 20]
Action Fee Adjustment
Stage Final
Comment Period Ended on 7/16/2025
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7/1/25  5:21 pm
Commenter: R Morgan Burrow / self

Fee adjustment effective August 2025
 

The proposed doubling of the license renewal fee is ridiculous and should NOT be final.  Review is needed!  What makes this worse is little or no notice to anyone affected by those fees.  I hope Gov. Youngkin is aware of this since sudden doubling of regulatory fees makes the Commonwealth look bad and is bad for business.  Supposedly, the regulatory fees support activities of the various Boards; is doubling regulatory fees really necessary?  Are Board meetings being held at expensive hotels or resorts instead of state government offices?  Regulatory fee increases should be limited to no more than the published annual federal government inflation rate, if that.  Tighten the belt and make pennies scream!  Taxpayers and license holders are not a cow's udder for government agencies.

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