| BILL NO | A03718 |
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| SAME AS | SAME AS S02667
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| SPONSOR | Paulin (MS) |
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| COSPNSR | Cook, Cymbrowitz, Titone, Stirpe, Espaillat, Ball |
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| MLTSPNSR | Boyland, Gottfried, Hikind, Latimer, Maisel, McEneny, Reilly, Rivera J |
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| Amd SS7101-a & 7106, Ed L |
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| Authorizes optometrists certified to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents for the treatment or prevention of ocular disease, to also use specified oral pharmaceutical agents in their practices; requires completion of a 25 hour phase three therapeutic pharmaceutical agent certification course of didactic education; permits the commissioner of health to recommend other categories of drugs that may also be prescribed. |