Is this cool?

[a2jc4life]

if you're claiming to have a degree but the degree is not recognized as a legal degree, that's fraud. fraud definitely seems within the scope of the legislature.

Sure.  But an unaccredited degree and an illegitimate degree are, arguably, two different things.  The "degrees" mentioned in the OP aren't even really degrees.  There's no course work or demonstration of competency required.  But there are a number of schools that are perfectly legitimate that either are still in the process of accreditation, or choose to refrain from accreditation because what they teach is counter-cultural and they don't want the governmental strings attached that come with accreditation.  (Religion and alternative come immediately to mind.) 

As a hypothetical, say a man acquires a degree from a Bible school that chose to forego accreditation because it doesn't want the government determining what it teaches.  That man then applies for a job as a pastor, referencing said degree.  Is it not a significant problem that the same government could then say he's not legally able to do so?

(And frankly, how does one even know to go look for a law like that?  I always have concerns with laws that the average, reasonable citizen could plausibly break unknowingly, and wouldn't necessarily think to look for.)

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Fair point.

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haha I did actually quote something you wrote, DavidHume; it just vanished due to technical difficulties. That wasn't snark on my part. I was responding to this:

"But it's really not all that different than a state having specific requirements that need to be met to use various professional designations like CPA or RN. As those vary by state it's not unreasonable that the standards for claiming BA or PhD would as well."