STATE OF NEW YORK
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5066--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 5, 2019
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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 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
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.
LBD08877-05-9
