CLCID’s Legislative Alert on SB 1312

Check it – Not just opposition letters, but quirky articles from Newsweek and the Sacramento Bee.

There are more important things to write about. Like the price of gas and how did the Celts push the Cavs to the brink of elimination?

NCIDQ blew it

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So many interior designers are in the dark about what the hell is happening with their profession in California. There are now TWO legislation coalitions at odds with each other (CLCID and IDCC); a couple of large national organizations seemingly “at war” (ASID & NKBA); sideline groups and their members sparring with each other, not to mention ‘outsiders’ (such as AIA and CALBO) jumping in to render their opinions, and all the while, no doubt, being watched by the Institute for Justice.

And what’s all the fuss about? A national interior design exam, called the NCIDQ, that was once the ‘only’ accepted exam for interior design certification (in Calif.), but then a while ago fell into non compliance with California law.

With much negotiation on the certification boards part, NCIDQ wouldn’t make any exceptions to comply with California law, so CCIDC had to adjust their exam requirements to comply with the law. This didn’t sit well with NCIDQ or ASID who have since decided to try to legislate the NCIDQ as the only exam (under proposed Senate Bill 1312).

While this isn’t the entire mess, it is a big part of it. Many of us sit and wonder why ASID is pushing for the NCIDQ only when MOST of their own members have never taken it.

All NCIDQ had to do was make some exceptions to their rules to comply with California law, and they’d have a whole lot of candidates sitting for their exam today and in the future.

As it stands, they pretty much forced CCIDC to lookfor other ways to properly test and certify designers in California and they now have plans to drop their current exams and go to one California Codes Exam in 2009.

Big mistake NCIDQ. I think you blew it in California.