Please vote NO on requiring continuing education for registered architects in Virginia. I already have to acquire 24 credits to maintain my architect license in Maryland. Now Virginia, like other states, wants to jump on this same bandwagon. This is a joke that needlessly, costs time or money of those it burdens. Every two years I now have to suck up to Maryland administrators and either spend a small fortune or waste precious hours of my life (minimum 2 work hours per credit hour earned) to satisfy government bureaucratic demands. I usually take the free courses offered by manufacturers. From these courses, I've learned about airplane aisle floor lighting and other such informative minutia important to protecting the public welfare? I understand the AIA is supporting and promoting this type of coersion, because they stand to gain from their extensive list of expensive credit courses. Remember, the AIA is the same organization that established NCARB, which requires architects to pay NCARB to hold architect resumes for reciprocal licensure in other states. The AIA is also the organization that produces several super, voluminous versions of masterspecs and masterdetails, because they are more focused on sales than on service. If you really desire to protect the public welfare, try encouraging the AIA and other regulatory (ie. code) agencies to focus on streamlining their architectural products, to better assist architects, and thereby minimize the inevitable errors and ommissions that can lead  to endangerment of the public. Leave us alone.