Category: Texas Interior Design Legislation

Michael Dudek

Turning Up the Heat on Registered Interior Designers in Texas

Texas Sunset ADVISORY Commission stands behind deregulating Registered Interior Designers despite overwhelming opposition.

PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER is trying to stay on top of the effort to deregulate interior design in Texas….which from the middle of Kansas is easier said than done. If I get any of this wrong please let me know.

Here is the latest update from the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission;

http://www.sunset.state.tx.us/83rd/eng/eng_dm.pdf

Here from page #20 o is the key sentence “Staff Recommended Action
Adopt Recommendations 1.1 through 1.4.”

I am not a rocket surgeon but I read that as…despite overwhelming and compelling requests/testimony to deny the Advisory Commission’s recommendation to deregulate interior design in Texas, the Commission is still hell bent on making it happen. NOT COOL.

To make matters worse Texas State Representative Bill Callegari is on the warpath to roll back state regulation of all sorts…including interior design;

http://www.house.state.tx.us/news/press-releases/?id=4129&session=82&district=132&bill_code=2295

So Texas Registered Interior Designers…..the sun is getting lower on your horizon.

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Michael Dudek

Texas Interior Design Sunset Update

See page #20a for updated TBAE board comments and public comments. http://www.sunset.state.tx.us/83rd/eng/eng_hm.pdf Kudos to Kathy Hendricks.  The Texas ID profession owes her big time. PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER is not sure how, or when, this issue will be resolved but it is clear that if ID legislation in Texas is deregulated it will be against the will of […]

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Michael Dudek

Hearing on Sunsetting Registered Interior Design Regulation in Texas

From a LinkedIn discussion on the same topic; There is a hearing in Austin on Nov.13th. The agenda is available here: http://www.sunset.state.tx.us/83rd/Agendas/Nov_13.pdf. Donna Vining (Exec. Director of Texas Association for Interior Design) wrote the following: “Obviously, anyone who wants to testify, may do so. PLEASE be aware the Sunset commission will not appreciate a lot […]

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Michael Dudek

KEEPING THE SUN FROM SETTING ON R.I.D.’s IN TEXAS

First it was Florida, then Virginia now Texas seems to be the latest battleground for the deregulation of Interior Design. The Texas Board of Architectural Examiners Staff just issued a report recommending that Texas cease regulating that states registered interior designers….

From page #17 of the report;

Recommendations
Change in Statute
1.1 Discontinue the regulation of registered interior designers.
This recommendation would remove the title act for interior designers from statute. The State would no longer regulate the profession of interior design or interior design firms, and all regulatory functions related to this profession would cease on the effective date of the provision.

http://www.sunset.state.tx.us/83rd/ENG/ENG_SR.pdf

PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER notes this effort by Texas RID Beverly Vosko via her MOVEON.ORG petition;

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-sunset-commission-keep-rid-s-regulated-under-texas-law

Since the TBAS reviewers recommended that if the Texas RID regulations are sunsetted (read shit-canned) that the vacant seat on the licensing board be filled with a Landscape Architect….because they can specify soft playground materials to keep kids from hurting themselves…..

More on this later. PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER recommends that the Texas Association for Interior Design learn from the trials and tribulations of the deregulation efforts in Florida and Virginia…See my previous posts for contact info.

Don’t let the Sun go down on you!

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Wow if we could only harness the energy in this vitriol……

So from the Interior Design Protection Council I see that Ms. Morrow is rather unhappy with how the The Texas Board of Architectural Examiners interpreted the Texas Courts ruling of the Institute for Justice’s lawsuit in that state. http://www.idpcinfo.org/Rebuttal_to_TBAE.pdf Looks like the IJ’s strategy of using grandfathering against the defendants is not limited to Florida……..Wow […]

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