The California Council for Interior Design Certification (CCIDC) board is working to replace the CCRE and the three national examinations with one certification examination that will be available online at multiple examination sites across the state starting in 2009.

For approximately the past eight years, anyone wishing to become a Certified Interior Designer has been required to take and pass one of the three recognized national examinations, namely the CQRID, the NCIDQ, or both parts of the NKBA, plus a supplemental California Codes and Regulations Examination, the CCRE. Up until eight years ago, there was only one nationally recognized exam. These were in addition to education and experience requirements prescribed in Section 5800 of the Business & Professions Code.

The reason for this transformation of the examinations is make the process coincide with the Section 139 of the California Business and Professions Code as well as be appropriate for the people fitting into one of the three classes of education and experience under within the law, as well as to those with “experience only”.

To be installed the title of a Certified Interior Designer, examination passers still needs to meet all the other requirements. For those who have taken one of the national exams the CCIDC will accept them as long as you provide the CCRE for those wishing to take it for an extended time.

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