Bill Text: NY S00131 | 2023-2024 | 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: (Engrossed) 2023-05-03 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3158A [S00131 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           131

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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.
                                                                   LBD01060-01-3