I strongly support the continued regulation of the Interior Design and Landscape Architect professions in order to maintain the high quality of work and the consideration to the public's Health, Safety, and Welfare that licensure ensures. A licensed Interior Designer or Landscape Architect has gone through years of training and are qualified as being capable of large scale projects. Having an unlicensed profession would allow unqualified individuals, who do not have the knowledge or experience that current licensed professionals have, the opportunity to put the public in harms way because the unlicensed professionals would not be beholden to the same Health, Safety, and Welfare standards that are currently in place. This is an unncessary risk that would be pushed onto the public and it would be irresponsible to create that risk when it isn't there currently.

Additionally, licensure for one profession, and certification, registration, or no regulation for the other, can cause confusion in the marketplace and may be perceived by the consumer as an endorsement of the skill and competence of one profession over the other. Where the professions overlap, it provides a state-sanctioned advantage for one profession over the other. This destroys the competitive, free market in which design professionals compete.