Virginia Senate Bill 511 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 9 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-09 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Optometry; scope of practice. Provides that the practice of optometry includes the evaluation, examination, diagnosis, and treatment of abnormal or diseased conditions of the human eye and its adnexa by the use of medically recognized and appropriate devices, procedures, or technologies but that it does not include treatment through surgery, including laser surgery, other invasive modalities, or the use of injections, except for certain injections by TPA-certified optometrists and for the treatment of emergency cases of anaphylactic shock with intramuscular epinephrine. The bill authorizes a TPA-certified optometrist to administer therapeutic pharmaceutical agents by injection for the treatment of chalazia by means of an injection of a steroid included in Schedule VI controlled substances, provided that the optometrist provides written evidence that he has completed certain training requirements to the Board of Optometry.

Optometry; scope of practice.

Sen. David Suetterlein [R]	Sen. Richard Black [R]	Sen. Charles Carrico [R]	Sen. Amanda Chase [R]
Sen. John Cosgrove [R]	Sen. John Edwards [D]	Sen. Janet Howell [D]	Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]
Sen. Louise Lucas [D]	Sen. Stephen Newman [R]	Sen. Mark Peake [R]	Sen. John Petersen [D]
Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]	Sen. Glen Sturtevant [R]	Sen. Frank Wagner [R]

2018-02-22 - Senate - Senate: House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-20 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-15 - House - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-09		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280)
2018-03-09		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 280 (effective 7/1/18)
2018-03-02		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
2018-03-02	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
2018-02-28	Senate	Signed by President
2018-02-26	House	Signed by Speaker
2018-02-26	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB511ER)
2018-02-26	Senate	Enrolled
2018-02-22	Senate	House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2018-02-20	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
2018-02-20	House	Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2018-02-20	House	Engrossed by House as amended
2018-02-20	House	Committee amendments agreed to
2018-02-20	House	Read third time
2018-02-19	House	Read second time
2018-02-15	House	Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments (22-Y 0-N)
2018-02-05	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2018-02-05	House	Read first time
2018-02-05	House	Placed on Calendar
2018-01-30	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2018-01-29	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB511S1
2018-01-29	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 18105985D-S1
2018-01-29	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2018-01-29	Senate	Read second time
2018-01-26	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
2018-01-25	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
2018-01-25	Senate	Committee substitute printed 18105985D-S1
2018-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2018-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101601D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
54	1	2400.01:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3200	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3222	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB511
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB511+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB511S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB511ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0280+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S04V0089+SB0511
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0162SB0511+SB0511
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0216SB0511+SB0511
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H12V0187+SB0511
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+HV0852+SB0511
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0613SB0511+SB0511