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2022 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health Professions

Barker (Chair), Saslaw, Newman, Edwards, Lewis, Dunnavant, Suetterlein, Pillion

Clerk: Michael Jackson,Thomas Jackson
Staff: Julia Carlton, Anna Moir
Date of Meeting: January 21, 2022
Time and Place: 8:30 AM Subcommittee Room #2 / 5th Floor Pocahontas Building
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S.B. 375

Optometrists; laser surgery. Allows an optometrist who has received a certification to perform laser surgery from the Board of Optometry (the Board) to perform certain types of laser surgery of the eye and directs the Board to issue a certification to perform laser surgery to any optometrist who submits evidence satisfactory to the Board that he (i) is certified by the Board to prescribe for and treat diseases or abnormal conditions of the human eye and its adnexa with therapeutic pharmaceutical agents pursuant to Code requirements and (ii) has satisfactorily completed such didactic and clinical training programs provided by an accredited school or college of optometry that includes training in the use of lasers for the medically appropriate and recognized treatment of the human eye as the Board may require.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 54.1-2400.01:1, 54.1-3200, and 54.1-3201 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 32 of Title 54.1 an article numbered 6, consisting of a section numbered 54.1-3225, relating to optometrists; laser surgery.

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