File Code: Health Occupations
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates D. Davis, Taylor, and Owings
- Entitled:
-
Optometrists - Quality Eye Health Improvement Act
Clarifying the practice responsibilities of an optometrist; altering
restrictions placed on the practice of optometry; allowing for the
waiver of specified educational requirements for therapeutically
certified optometrists certified in another state; and altering the
authority of the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish
specified guidelines and regulations.
House Action
- 2/11
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/21
- Hearing 3/6 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/3
- Hearing cancelled
- 3/6
- Withdrawn
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Dereck E. Davis, District 25
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Casper R. Taylor, Jr., District 1C
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- EDUCATION -see also- DRIVER ED; HIGHER ED; SPECIAL ED; etc
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS -see also specific health occupations-
- LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEV LIC; DRIVERS' LICENSES
- OPHTHALMOLOGISTS
- OPTOMETRISTS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health Occupations
- (
11-403 ,
11-404.1 ,
11-404.2 ,
11-404.3
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered