We got change, all right. I have a PE license in Michigan. I just renewed my license last week. The fee went UP and they added 15 hours every two years of "Continuing Education" coursework. Worse yet, coursework that you take at work does NOT count. So, you have to sit through irrelevant coursework elsewhere, even though you are remaining state-of-the-art at your primary occupation.
I’m a registered Landscape Architect. Michigan doesn’t require continuing education for some reason. I am licensed in a couple other states too an do need CE. The premise of licensure is to protect the general well being and welfare of the public. It makes no sense to not of CE. We are a niche with very few of us around. After a required college degree and a minimum of 2 years work experience prior to taking our registration exam, we enjoy the protection licensure gives us. I don’t see this as a Government protected monopoly. We spent a lot of money in education and worked our butts off to get it. It’s just not right someone can say they are a landscape architect with nothing to back it up. I can do most of what a civil engineer can do but I don’t think they would like me doing it without a PE designation.