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Sen. M. Maggie Crotty
Filed: 4/9/2008
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 885
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 885 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987 is |
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| amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
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| (225 ILCS 80/3) (from Ch. 111, par. 3903)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2017)
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| Sec. 3. Practice of optometry defined; referrals; |
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| manufacture of lenses
and prisms. |
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| (a) The practice of optometry is defined as the employment |
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| of any
and all means for the examination, diagnosis, and |
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| treatment of the human
visual system, the human eye, and its |
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| appendages without the use of
surgery, including but not |
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| limited to: the appropriate
use of ocular
pharmaceutical |
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| agents; refraction and other determinants of visual function;
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| prescribing corrective lenses or prisms; prescribing, |
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| dispensing, or management
of contact lenses; vision therapy; |
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| visual rehabilitation; or any other
procedures taught in |
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| schools and colleges of optometry approved by the
Department, |
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| and not specifically restricted in this Act, subject to
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| demonstrated competency and training as required by the Board, |
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| and pursuant
to rule or regulation approved by the Board and |
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| adopted by
the Department.
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| A person shall be deemed to be practicing optometry within |
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| the meaning of
this Act who:
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| (1) In any way presents himself or herself to be |
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| qualified to
practice optometry.
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| (2) Performs refractions or employs any other |
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| determinants of
visual function.
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| (3) Employs any means for the adaptation of lenses or |
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| prisms.
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| (4) Prescribes corrective lenses, prisms, vision |
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| therapy,
visual rehabilitation, or ocular pharmaceutical |
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| agents.
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| (5) Prescribes or manages contact lenses for |
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| refractive,
cosmetic, or therapeutic purposes.
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| (6) Evaluates the need for, or prescribes, low vision |
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| aids to
partially sighted persons.
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| (7) Diagnoses or treats any ocular abnormality, |
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| disease, or
visual or muscular anomaly of the human eye or |
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| visual system.
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| (8) Practices, or offers or attempts to practice, |
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| optometry as defined in
this Act either on his or her own |
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| behalf or as an employee
of a person, firm,
or corporation, |
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| whether under the supervision of his or her employer or |
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| not.
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| Nothing in this Section shall be interpreted (i) to prevent |
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| a person from
functioning as an assistant under the direct |
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| supervision of a person licensed
by the State of Illinois to |
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| practice optometry or medicine in all of its
branches or (ii) |
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| to prohibit visual screening programs that
are conducted |
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| without a fee (other than voluntary donations), by
charitable |
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| organizations
acting in the public welfare under
the |
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| supervision of a committee composed of persons licensed by the |
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| State of
Illinois to practice optometry or persons licensed by |
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| the State of Illinois
to practice medicine in all of its |
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| branches.
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| (b) When, in the course of providing optometric services to |
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| any person,
an optometrist licensed under this Act finds an |
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| indication of a disease or
condition of the eye which in his or |
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| her professional judgment requires
professional service |
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| outside the scope of practice as defined in this Act,
he or she |
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| shall refer such person to a physician licensed to practice |
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| medicine
in all of its branches, or other appropriate health |
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| care practitioner.
Nothing in this Act shall preclude an |
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| optometrist from rendering appropriate nonsurgical
emergency |
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| care.
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| (c) Nothing contained in this Section shall prohibit a |
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| person from
manufacturing ophthalmic lenses and prisms or the |
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| fabrication
of contact lenses according to the specifications |
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| prescribed by an optometrist
or a physician licensed to |
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| practice medicine in all of its branches, but shall
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| specifically prohibit the sale or delivery of ophthalmic
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| lenses, prisms, and contact lenses without a prescription |
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| signed by an
optometrist or a physician licensed to practice |
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| medicine in all of its
branches.
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| (d) Nothing in this Act shall restrict the filling of a |
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| prescription by a
pharmacist licensed under the Pharmacy |
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| Practice Act. |
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| (e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to restrict the |
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| dispensing and sale by an optometrist of ocular devices, such |
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| as contact lenses, that contain and deliver ocular |
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| pharmaceutical agents permitted for use or prescription under |
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| this Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-787, eff. 5-19-06; 95-689, eff. 10-29-07.)".
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