Illinois Senate Bill 2954 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 18 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-07-31 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments
Pending: Senate Assignments Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. Allows optometrists to employ or engage the services of any optical laboratory, without restriction, to construct, fabricate, manufacture, or repair optical lenses, ophthalmic lenses, other vision corrective lenses, including, but not limited to, progressive lenses and bifocals and trifocals, and prisms. Allows the optical laboratory employed by an optometrist to subcontract with another optical laboratory for all or a portion of the services, with the optometrist's knowledge. Effective January 1, 2017.

OPTICAL LABORATORIES

Sen. Jason Barickman [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-07-31	Senate	Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments
2016-05-27	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 31, 2016
2016-04-19	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 20, 2016
2016-04-19	Senate	Second Reading
2016-04-06	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 7, 2016
2016-04-06	Senate	Do Pass Licensed Activities and Pensions; 010-000-000
2016-03-17	Senate	Postponed - Licensed Activities and Pensions
2016-03-02	Senate	Assigned to Licensed Activities and Pensions
2016-02-18	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2016-02-18	Senate	First Reading
2016-02-18	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jason A. Barickman

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
225	80	24.4	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2954&GAID=13&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=88&GA=99
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/99/SB/09900SB2954.htm