I presently possess multiple state registrations, whereas a uniform standard of national registration would be preferable to me (such as the European model), that's another topic for another day.  My experience with CEU credits is that it creates another profitable industry that feeds off governmental regulation serving a demand where no need previously existed.  It routinely costs me thousands of dollars annually to fulfill this requirement which provides at best, marginal benefit to me.  This flies in the face of all we hold sacred in a free market system when artificial 'needs' are created.  My personal feeling and experience is that the profession itself does an effective job of policing itself.  Incompetence is not sheltered or protected and eventually is rooted out in the form of dismissal of personnel or business failure of any organization that allows substandard professional practice.  I have seen this and similar well intentioned programs become a bloated, unmanageable bureaucracy that takes on a life of its own.  Specifically, my experience with the state of Florida can be unintentionally duplicated by well meaning administrations anywhere.  I have no doubt that dedicated and concerned regulators can be found in Florida who have a true concern for the safety and welfare of the public, but the implementation of their regulatory morass quickly obfuscates any potential benefit.  Florida required me to take three exams just to be eligible for licensure.  When CEU credits were submitted to Florida, the state summarily rejected submittals after a time measure had elapsed whereby it was impossible to make up the credits for that year and necessitate the registrant to re-initiate the registration process all over again.  When Florida was pressed for providing guidelines for acceptable courses or perhaps to supply a list of courses approved by Florida, the regulatory agency refused.  Florida continues to operate with impunity and gratuitously imposes their regulatory will on a whim.  I am quite certain that these affects were not intended at the inception when Florida first began there process of requiring continuing education in the engineering and surveying professions.  I am also curious if any regulators are contemplating sending doctors back to medical school, lawyers back to law school, pharmacists back to pharmacy school, CPAs back for additional accounting classes, and other licensed professions (real estate, building contractors, cosmetology, barbers, legislators, city planners, bankers, chemists, optometrists, teachers, et al).  Just for the record, my objection is not with continuing education, this is something I do willingly.  I oppose it on the basis that I haven't observed any state or governmental entity handle this topic in an unblemished manner, and I've been practicing this profession over 34 years.