AB183: Revises provisions relating to optometry. (BDR 54-151)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to optometry; providing that a license to practice optometry issued by the Nevada State Board of Optometry is a revocable privilege; establishing procedures by which the Board may summarily suspend a license to practice optometry; specifying the substances which may be prescribed by an optometrist who holds a certificate to administer and prescribe pharmaceutical agents; increasing the number of members which constitute the Board; revising the requirements for the issuance of a license by endorsement; revising provisions governing the issuance of certain certificates by the Board; revising the circumstances under which certain optometrists are authorized to prescribe controlled substances; revising provisions relating to investigations conducted by the Board; clarifying that the practice of optometry includes optometric telemedicine; establishing certain circumstances under which a licensee is not required to report certain events to the Board; establishing certain provisions governing the temporary ownership of an optometry practice of a licensee who is permanently incapacitated; revising provisions governing the issuance of citations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.