Georgia Licensure Committee Created

Georgia has officially created Senate Resolution 1077, the Senate Study Committee on the Licensure of Personal Fitness Trainers to investigate the industry and attempt to be the first state to impose licensing requirements on trainers.

If you are unfamiliar with this situation, please read my article on Georgia Personal Trainers in Jeopardy.

This is serious business now. If we do not stand up and speak out, allowing our voices to be heard, then our industry will be regulated without our input. Follow the link to the Georgia Personal Trainers in Jeopardy article, and use the contact information at the bottom of the page to voice your concerns to the Senators and Representatives involved.

Occupational Licensing: What does it accomplish?

Here is a link to a most informative article by John Hood, formerly of the John Locke Foundation, on the ill-effects of occupational licensing. As you read this, imagine the future of the personal fitness industry when these same unintended consequences befall us with licensure.
Occupational Licensing

Also, the following article is quite interesting:
License Policy Review

By it's own extensive track record in the U.S., what does occupational licensure accomplish?


"Licensure almost inevitably becomes a tool in the hands of a special producer group to maintain a monopoly position at the expense of the rest of the public. There is no way to avoid this result."
Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman