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| Subject: Re: Fuck The Useless & Oppressive Statist Licensing Racket For Serfs PART 4 Wed Feb 19, 2020 1:01 am | |
| Governor's occupational licensing bill advances out of House committee
Cosmetologists, plumbers, barbers and people in dozens of other trades would face fewer obstacles to occupational licensing in Iowa under a bill backed by Gov. Kim Reynolds and approved by the House State Government Committee on Tuesday.
Aimed at helping attract skilled workers, House Study Bill 647 would allow workers with licenses from other states to practice their trades in Iowa without going through additional training, taking a separate exam or paying an application fee.
The current rules vary by industry. But some business lobbying groups have argued that workers stay out of Iowa because they don't want to go through a lengthy application process before earning a wage again.
The committee voted in favor of the bill, 22-1, paving the way for it to come before the full Legislature.
"What we're doing here is removing barriers to occupation in the state," said state Rep. Shannon Lundgren, R-Dubuque, who presented the bill to the committee. "We want to grow our population here in the state. ... We have lots of trades employees that are living in Wisconsin and Illinois. It would be great to bring them to Iowa."
The bill would waive occupational license fees for workers with household incomes below 200% of the federal poverty line. For a family of four, the cap is $52,400 this year.
The bill also would make it easier for workers with criminal convictions to receive occupational licenses. It would give occupational licensing boards leeway to grant exemptions to people otherwise banned from receiving a license, instructing them to consider factors like the age of the worker at the time of the crime and how much time has passed.
A 2015 Brookings Institution paper found that one-third of Iowa workers must obtain licenses from state boards, a higher proportion than any other state. Certain industries are more heavily regulated than others. According to the libertarian think tank the Institute for Justice, Iowa has stricter requirements to become an HVAC contractor than its neighboring states. The 2,100 hours of training required to receive a cosmetology license in Iowa is more than double the 1,000 hours required in New York.
"We're making it easier for people to come into the state and get to work and be productive citizens," state Rep. Karin Derry, D-Johnston, said during the meeting.
State Rep. Molly Donahue, D-Cedar Rapids, was the only committee member to vote against the bill. She said she was concerned about educational professionals coming from other states with different training standards.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2020/02/18/iowa-governor-occupational-licensing-bill-advances-out-committee/4793320002/
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| Subject: Re: Fuck The Useless & Oppressive Statist Licensing Racket For Serfs PART 4 Fri Feb 21, 2020 1:05 am | |
| Close look needed at occupational licensure
The IssueTransparency regarding the state's more than 100 occupational licensure boards is desirable, but the larger issue is how many of these boards should exist in the first place, and how many should have the number of jobs they license curtailed?
A bill under consideration by the Alabama Legislature would require the state’s more than 100 occupational licensure boards to give a public accounting of their revenue and expenditures. House Bill 61, sponsored by Rep. Chris Pringle, R-Mobile, is a good first step, but it is only a first step. What Alabama really needs is a long, hard look at all of those licensure boards and whether or not they are needed in the first place. From locksmiths and door repair contractors, to sign language interpreters and commercial painters, Alabama requires occupational licenses for jobs where most other states do not. This amounts to an unnecessary barrier to entry to people — often poor — trying to enter the workforce. Pringle said his bill stems from his work a few years ago on a budget reform task force. He said he discovered that many licensure boards don’t deposit the fees they collect into the state treasury, but have private bank accounts. “They answer to no one,” Pringle said. “(Boards) are authorized by the state of Alabama to tax the professionals of Alabama with licensing fees,” he said. A 2018 report released by the Alabama Policy Institute said licensing boards oversee 151 occupations in Alabama, amounting to roughly 432,000 workers, or more than 21% of the state’s labor force. API estimates that the total cost to Alabama employees of getting licensed amounts to $122 million, and the annual cost of license renewal totals $45 million. API has been part of a national movement toward occupational licensure reform spearheaded by groups affiliated with billionaire libertarian philanthropist Charles Koch and his late brother David Koch. Occupational licensure reform is one of the many areas where the Koch brothers, the bogeymen of the political left, have taken up a cause that should be welcomed by advocates for the poor. Some professions — doctors, to name an obvious example — are licensed because of legitimate health and safety concerns, although even in medicine these can be overstated. Twenty-two states, for example, don’t license midwifes. Alabama, which only recently permitted midwifery at all, does — a necessary political compromise to get legalized midwifery through the Legislature in the first place. Many other occupational licenses, however, serve no legitimate purpose. They only serve to stifle competition. API’s director of policy strategy and general counsel, Phil Williams, sees Pringle’s bill as an attempt to generate momentum for broader reform, that is, reducing the amount of occupational licensing in Alabama and recognizing occupational licenses granted by other states. Last year, for example, Arizona passed universal occupational licensure recognition. Such a reform makes it easier for skilled workers to move to a new state and do the job for which they are trained. “Workers don’t lose their skills simply because they move to Arizona,” said Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who signed the law, stating what should be obvious. “The new law does not recognize other states’ occupational licenses automatically,” according to the Council of State Governments, but, “under the new law, workers will not be required to duplicate training and other requirements that often delay or prevent them from getting to work.” So, sure, transparency regarding these state boards is desirable; they are, after all, essentially taxing people for the right to work. But the larger issue is how many of these boards should exist in the first place, and how many should have the number of jobs they license curtailed?
https://www.timesdaily.com/opinion/editorials/close-look-needed-at-occupational-licensure/article_9cef2150-8152-54a0-8bb3-812770a3eb67.html |
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