File Code: Health Occupations
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 519
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Goldwater, Bobo, Bronrott, Brown, Dumais, Eckardt,
Frush, Holmes, Jones, Kaiser, Krysiak, Lee, Madaleno, Mandel, McIntosh,
Menes, Moe, Pendergrass, and Rosenberg
- Entitled:
-
Health Occupations - State Board of Examiners in Optometry - Scope of
Practice
Requiring a therapeutically certified optometrist to attend at least 6
hours of continuing education on the management of primary open-angle
glaucoma; authorizing a therapeutically certified optometrist to
administer or prescribe specified pharmaceutical agents; requiring
consultation with an ophthalmologist when treating primary open-angle
glaucoma; etc.
House Action
- 2/13
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- 2/18
- Hearing 3/4 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/12
- Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate William A. Bronrott, District 16
- Delegate Anthony G. Brown, District 25
- Delegate Kathleen M. Dumais, District 15
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Marvin E. Holmes, Jr., District 23B
- Delegate Adrienne A. Jones, District 10
- Delegate Anne R. Kaiser, District 14
- Delegate Carolyn J. Krysiak, District 46
- Delegate Susan C. Lee, District 16
- Delegate Richard S. Madaleno, Jr., District 18
- Delegate Adrienne A. Mandel, District 19
- Delegate Maggie McIntosh, District 43
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Brian R. Moe, District 21
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 41
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- DISEASES -see also- AIDS; RABIES
- DRUGS -see also- CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUB; SUBSTANCE ABUSE
- EDUCATION -see also- DRIVER ED; HIGHER ED; SPECIAL ED; etc
- EXAMINATIONS
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS -see also- specific health occupations
- LABORATORIES
- LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEV LIC; DRIVERS' LICENSES
- OPHTHALMOLOGISTS
- OPTOMETRISTS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health Occupations
- (
11-309 ,
11-404.1 ,
11-404.2
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered