Kentucky Senate Bill 110 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on February 24 2011 - 100% progression
Action: 2011-02-24 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 1)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Amend KRS 320.210 to modify the definition of the practice of optometry to include types of diagnoses and treatment of diseases, disorders, or conditions of the eye and its appendages by a licensed optometrist; permit prescribing and adapting visual aids and Schedule III or lower drugs or employing vision therapy or orthoptics, low vision rehabilitation, and certain laser surgery procedures; include the correction and relief of ocular abnormalities by surgical procedures not otherwise excluded in the practice of optometry; list a variety of procedures that are excluded from the practice of optometry, except for the preoperative and postoperative care of those procedures; indicate that a person is regarded as practicing optometry if he or she performs or advertises to perform optometric operations of any kind, prescribes or provides any means or device to help the human eye, or uses the word "optometrist" or other similar designation in connection with his or her name; amend KRS 320.240 to authorize the board to promulgate administrative regulations for optometrist licensure; forbid an individual from practicing optometry unless he or she is licensed by the board; establish the board's sole jurisdiction over the practice of optometry; declare that in a public health emergency, the Commissioner of Health may authorize therapeutically licensed optometrists to administer inoculation for systemic health reasons; name KRS 320.210 and 320.240 the "Better Access to Quality Eye Care Act."

AN ACT relating to optometry.

Sen. Walter Blevins [D]	Sen. Tom Buford [R]	Sen. Jared Carpenter [R]	Sen. Julian Carroll [D]
Sen. Perry Clark [D]	Sen. Carroll Gibson [R]	Sen. David Givens [R]	Sen. Denise Harper Angel [D]
Sen. Jimmy Higdon [R]	Sen. Paul Hornback [R]	Sen. Thomas Jensen [R]	Sen. Ray Jones [D]
Sen. Alice Kerr [R]	Sen. Vernie McGaha [R]	Sen. R.J. Palmer [D]	Sen. Dennis Parrett [D]
Sen. Joey Pendleton [D]	Sen. Jerry Rhoads [D]	Sen. Dorsey Ridley [D]	Sen. John Schickel [R]
Sen. Dan Seum [R]	Sen. Kathy Stein [D]	Sen. Robert Stivers [R]	Sen. Johnny Turner [D]
Sen. Robin Webb [D]	Sen. Jack Westwood [R]	Sen. Mike Wilson [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-24		signed by Governor (Acts ch. 1)
2011-02-23		delivered to Governor
2011-02-23		enrolled, signed by each presiding officer
2011-02-18		received in Senate
2011-02-18		passed 81-14
2011-02-18		floor amendments (1) (2) (4) (5) (6) (7) and (8) defeated
2011-02-18		3rd reading
2011-02-17		floor amendments (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) and (9) filed
2011-02-17		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 18, 2011
2011-02-17		2nd reading, to Rules
2011-02-16		floor amendment (1) filed
2011-02-16		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2011-02-15		posting waived
2011-02-15		to Licensing & Occupations (H)
2011-02-14		received in House
2011-02-11		passed 33-3-1 with floor amendment (1)
2011-02-11		floor amendment (2) withdrawn
2011-02-11		3rd reading
2011-02-11		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 11, 2011
2011-02-10		floor amendment (2) filed
2011-02-09		floor amendment (1) filed
2011-02-09		2nd reading, to Rules
2011-02-08		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2011-02-07		to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
2011-02-07		introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB110.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB110/bill.doc