File Code: Health Occupations
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 1091
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Conway, Britt, Klausmeier, and Pinsky
- 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.
Senate Action
- 2/6
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 2/18
- Hearing 3/9 at 1:00 p.m.
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator Gwendolyn Britt, District 47
- Senator Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- 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