Since I am also registered in Indiana which requires 24 CE hours every 2 years, I have no problem with the Virginia adopting this. It should actually help me maintain my license(s) because I think more companies like Lorman will offer Architecturally relevant CE courses here in VA.

For those with limited time and budgets there are affordable CE packages offered through NCARB where you can get a lot of credits and work through it at your own pace. I worked through one on the plane over the course of several business trips. There are also more and more FREE courses available on-line, but they are usually only one CE hour.

I do not want to be required to have hours on a specific topic as one person said was required in Florida. As long as Virginia makes the number of required hours in line with what most other states are doing (about 12 CE hours per year), I have no objections. It seems to be the direction of Professional Licensing across the country and Virginia should keep up with the times. I was actually shocked when I moved here in 2003 that a state with such large metropolitan centers did not have a CE requirement.