New York S 487: Relates to clarifying the status of certain persons exempt from optometrist license requirements

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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487
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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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 from engaging in clinical practice under supervisionthe department the
5 of a licensed optometrist or physician [in a school of optometry in this
6 ]; orstate registered by the department
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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