New Laws Ease Georgia’s Occupational Licensing Burden

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Georgia still has plenty of room to improve. For example, the Archbridge Institute’s 2025 State Occupational Licensing Index ranks Georgia near the middle of the states for its overall licensing burden. The state imposes 117 occupational licenses, which is fewer than the national average, but restricts work through 158 licensing barriers, roughly matching the national average. While this diagnosis isn’t horribly bleak, it hardly befits the “best state for business,” label that Georgia lawmakers seek to maintain.

Very few people object to meaningful standards for professions in which incompetence or a lack of qualifications could cause harm, physical, financial or otherwise. Problems arise and compound, though, when licensing barriers are erected in response to every conceivable concern and then exist perpetually without scrutiny as to the costs they impose.

Read the full article at the Marietta Daily Journal.

Read the State Occupational Licensing Index report here.