Bill Text: NY A03158 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Clarifies the status of certain persons exempt from optometrist license requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - signed chap.546 [A03158 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03158-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3158--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BORES, GALLAGHER, LEVENBERG, PAULIN, RAGA, SHIM-
          SKY, ZINERMAN, BEEPHAN, STIRPE, GUNTHER, AUBRY,  GIBBS,  SIMON,  McDO-
          NALD,  BURGOS,  TAPIA,  BUTTENSCHON  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to clarifying the status
          of certain persons exempt from optometrist license requirements

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  a  of  section 7105 of the education law, as
     2  added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
     3    a. A student actively enrolled in a school of optometry with  accredi-
     4  tation  acceptable  to the department from engaging in clinical practice
     5  under the supervision of a licensed and currently registered optometrist
     6  or physician [in a school of optometry in this state registered  by  the
     7  department]; or
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01060-02-3