Bill Text: FL S1544 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Opticianry

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-27 - Filed [S1544 Detail]

Download: Florida-2025-S1544-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2025                                    SB 1544
       
       
        
       By Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       
       40-01185-25                                           20251544__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to opticianry; amending s. 484.011,
    3         F.S.; deleting the ability of an optician to delegate
    4         specified acts to unlicensed supportive personnel;
    5         amending s. 484.018, F.S.; deleting an exception to
    6         optician licensure requirements for employees working
    7         under the direct supervision of a physician or
    8         optometrist; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Section 484.011, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   13  read:
   14         484.011 License required Supportive personnel.—Any No
   15  person other than a licensed optician may not engage in the
   16  practice of opticianry, except that a licensed optician may
   17  delegate to nonlicensed supportive personnel those duties,
   18  tasks, and functions which fall within the purview of s.
   19  484.002(3). All such delegated acts shall be performed under the
   20  direct supervision of a licensed optician, who shall be
   21  responsible for all such acts performed by persons under her or
   22  his supervision.
   23         Section 2. Subsection (2) of section 484.018, Florida
   24  Statutes, is amended to read:
   25         484.018 Exceptions.—
   26         (2) Nothing in this part shall be construed to mean that an
   27  employee of a licensed physician or a licensed optometrist shall
   28  be required to secure a license under this part, so long as the
   29  employee is working exclusively for, and under the direct
   30  supervision of, the licensed physician or optometrist and does
   31  not hold herself or himself out to the public generally as an
   32  optician.
   33         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.