Sadly, this comment appears to confuse the reader by misstating the name of the Virginia Association for Behavior Analysis (a professional organization) as the "Virginia Board of Behavior Analysis" (which certainly sounds like some kind of credentialing board, doesn't it?).  There is no "Virginia Board of Behavior Analysis.  Of course the Virginia Association for Behavior Analysis will accept parties who are not BCBAs as members - just as ABAI and many other professional organizations do.  

Further, despite apparent misstatements in a number of the other "rebuttals,"  it does not appear that any of the commenters thus far has made any statement in favor of reducing the number of licensed behavior analysts in Virginia.  Instead they appear to be concerned with ensuring the quality and depth of preparation for those who do become licensed, and, as Mr. Moates demonstrated in his "rebuttal" to a prior comment, fewer hours of training, with less behavior analytic content, and fewer hours of supervised experience are required to sit for the QABA credentialing exam.