Opinion: Other states are loosening, cutting back on occupational licensing. Why not California?
They didn’t agree on much, but one policy issue where the Obama and Trump administrations agreed was the need for states to re-examine their systems ofMany states across the country have heeded that call and taken steps to do that. But not here in California.
Likewise, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu last month called for the elimination of licensing requirements for 34 occupations, reforms to state licensing boards and universal recognition for workers already licensed out-of-state. This proposal was included as part of Gov. Sununu’s budget proposal in which he affirmed a commitment to “breaking down regulatory barriers, lowering the cost of entry to do business here.
“Over 400 physicians and 170 physician assistants have been safely licensed by the Arizona Medical Board,” noted the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute last month. “The state’s Registrar of Contractors has approved over 2,200 licenses for numerous occupations in the trades. Thousands of additional workers have benefitted from universal recognition, including hundreds of behavioral health examiners and numerous engineers, cosmetologists, and real estate agents and brokers, among many others.
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