Bill Text: CA SB492 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Optometrist: practice: licensure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-21 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member V. Manuel PĂ©rez. [SB492 Detail]
Download: California-2013-SB492-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Optometrist: practice: licensure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-21 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member V. Manuel PĂ©rez. [SB492 Detail]
Download: California-2013-SB492-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 492 INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Hernandez FEBRUARY 21, 2013 An act to amend Section 3167 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to optometry. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 492, as introduced, Hernandez. Optometric corporations. The Optometry Practice Act creates the State Board of Optometry, which licenses optometrists and regulates their practice. The act requires an optometric corporation, as defined, in conducting its practice, to observe and be bound by statutes, rules, and regulations to the same extent as a person holding a license to practice optometry. The act authorizes the board to formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of the statutes governing optometric corporations, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 3167 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 3167. The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including rules and regulations requiring(a) that theboth of the following: (a) The articles of incorporation or bylaws of an optometric corporation shallinclude a provision whereby theprovide for the sale of any capital stock ofsuchthe corporation owned by a disqualified person(as, as defined in the Moscone-Knox Professional CorporationAct)Act , or a deceased personshall besoldto the corporation or to the remaining shareholders ofsuchthe corporation withinsuchthe time assuchthe rules and regulations may provide; and (b) that an. (b) An optometric corporation , as a condition of obtaining a certificate pursuant to the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act and this article , shall provide adequate security by insurance or otherwise forclaimsany claim against it byits patientsa patient arising out of the rendering of professional services.