Bill Text: NY A08115 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A08115 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08115-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8115

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 3, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. LIFTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        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 in a school of optometry with accreditation acceptable to
     4  the department from engaging in clinical practice under the  supervision
     5  of a licensed optometrist or physician [in a school of optometry in this
     6  state registered by the department]; or
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08877-06-9