Oppose the Delicensure of Landscape Architects in WA State

Not that we need more reasons to call our Representatives...but this particular action has direct impact on me and my landscape architecture community. While there are many worthy resistance efforts to continue this week, I hope to get a little help on this one too, if you can spare the time.

Per the eblast I received from ASLA's Washington Chapter today:

"House Bill 1361, introduced by 13th legislative district representative Matt Manweller, would delicense landscape architecture (and some other non-related occupations) in Washington. The bill is scheduled to be heard before the "House Committee on Business and Financial Services" at the House Hearing Room B, John L. O'Brien Building on February 8th at 1:30 PM. WASLA has been working to have landscape architecture removed from the bill." 

Spread the workd to your Washington State Landscape Architecture friends (and friends of LAs) and colleagues to make calls to Committee members today and tomorrow morning to extricate the landscape architecture profession from this bill. List of Representatives on the Committee on Business and Financial Services can be found here.

Here's a draft script I've cobbled together from the bullet points forwarded by WASLA:

Hello, my name is <<   >> and I want the delicensure of landscape architects to be extricated from House Bill 1361. Landscape architects are professionals like engineers and architects, and are licensed in all 50 states. Licensure requires completion of a 4 to 5-year accredited undergraduate program and 2-years from an accredited graduate program. Furthermore, delicensure will cause the state’s landscape architects to be uncompetitive for federally-contracted projects. Washington is currently a national center for landscape architecture, with hundreds of practitioners working on projects nationally and internationally, returning millions of dollars in professional services to the state. It would be of tremendous economic detriment to the Washington State economy to delicense this profession, and I hope you choose to extricate the landscape architecture profession from this bill. Thank you for your time.