PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 521

under certain circumstances; authorizing the use of a certain title titles; making a
certain exception; requiring the Board to certify a licensed optometrist as a
diagnostically certified optometrist under certain circumstances; requiring the
Board to certify a licensed optometrist as a therapeutically certified optometrist
under certain circumstances; authorizing diagnostically therapeutically certified
optometrists to administer and prescribe certain therapeutic pharmaceutical agents
and to, remove certain foreign bodies from the human eye and adnexa, and perform
certain other therapeutic tasks; prohibiting the performance of certain procedures;
defining certain terms; altering certain definitions; making the provisions of this Act
severable; and generally relating to the administering and prescribing of therapeutic
pharmaceutical agents and the removal of foreign bodies from the human eye and
adnexa by therapeutically the scope of practice of therapeutically and diagnostically
certified optometrists.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health Occupations

Section 11-101, 11-205(b), 11-207(b), 11-309, 11-402, 11-403, and 11-404
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume)

BY adding to

Article - Health Occupations

Section 11-404.1, 11-404.2, 11-404.3, and 11-503

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume)

Preamble

WHEREAS, The General Assembly, in enacting this Act, has sought the input
and cooperation of the Maryland Optometric Association, the Maryland Society of Eye
Physicians and Surgeons, and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene; and

WHEREAS, The Maryland Optometric Association, the Maryland Society of Eye
Physicians and Surgeons, and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene have agreed not to seek nor support before the General Assembly any expansion
in the law regarding the scope of optometric practice until at least January 1, 2000; and

WHEREAS, It is the intent of the General Assembly to expand the scope of
optometric practice only to the extent specified in this Act; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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