Colorado

In Colorado a new law was passed to regulate people who work as animal massage therapists. On the one hand it's a good thing that this was done, since other professions were trying to take over this professions: Vets, PT's....
The problem is that the law was promoted by the schools and not the therapists themselves. What this resulted in is a regulation that makes absolutely no sense, to me at least. The law says the only graduates of a school that it recognized by the State's Occupational Training Dept. will be allowed to practice. The requirements for this approval is an expensive fee and a bunch of bureaucratic measures with no direct influence on the quality or content of the training.
This is a what typically happens when the schools are the ones to regulate a profession, the requirements that come out are those that actually benefit the schools, not the practitioners or the client.
We practitioners need to be diligent in watching for this happening in other states, too late for Colorado and since I don't practice massage it doesn't bother me, to assure we have a say in what the law will require. For instance, shouldn't there be a minimum requirement of the school's training, number of anatomy hours, contact with teachers, teacher qualifications...?