HB197 Alabama 2020 Session

Updated Feb 12, 2020

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Danny GarrettRepresentative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2020
Title: Optometrists, practice of optometry defined, Board of Optometry to regulate, Secs. 20-2-2, 34-22-1 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, the Alabama Board of Optometry licenses and regulates optometrists in the state.
This bill would provide further for the scope of practice of optometry and for the exclusive authority of the board to regulate the practice.
This bill would also clarify the existing status of the board as a certifying board for purposes of the Alabama Uniform Controlled Substances Act, with certain exceptions.
Subjects: Optometry, Alabama Board of

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health