CE is something that is expected in other professional fields and is something we, as professionals, should be doing anyway.  Furthermore, several states also have a continuing education requirement.  Virginia's lack of a requirement could be used to refuse comity in another state because, very reasonably, how does that other states licensure board know that I have the same qualifications?  The only people this will inconvenience are those who are no longer practicing and have no need to be licensed. 

The financial cost is minimal.  Most of the seminars I go to are either free or offered for a nominal fee through local professional societies.  You don't have to go to the week-long conference at Disney World to meet the requirement.  If this were a conversation among people who flip burgers for a living, I might have sympathy for the added cost of CE, but we represent a very well compensated profession.  20 bucks every couple months won't kill us and might actually help us be better engineers. 

CE will help to ensure the quality of engineers in this state and prove that they are on level footing with other engineers in this country.  It will only benefit the profession and I fully support it.