Category: Texas Interior Design Legislation
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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…
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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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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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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…
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Texas Interior Design Bill 2011
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50072634/HB-2142-HB02142I-Texas-Legislature-via-MyGov365-com I am not sure where this stands but somebody clearly wants to eliminate ID registration in the big state of Texas….Hmmmm!
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Oh Okay We Were Just Goofin’ With Ya!
HEY YA KNOW ALL THAT EFFORT AND ANGST WE COERCED YOU TO INVEST IN OUR PROFESSION…JUST KIDDING!!!!! From an open letter in the December 2009 ASID Newsletter ICON I have just discovered that ASID no longer supports Interior Design regulation. That’s what I get for not being a member….. “That’s why the legislative agenda…
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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…