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State of South Dakota
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SEVENTY-SEVENTH
SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2002 |
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HOUSE BILL
NO.
1298
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Introduced by:
The Committee on Health and Human Services at the request of the Governor
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FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to
provide for certain prescriptive authority for
optometrists.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. That § 36-7-1 be amended to read as follows:
36-7-1. The practice of optometry is declared to be a profession and defined as examination of the human eye and its appendages, and the employment of any means for the measurement of the powers of visions, or any visual, muscular, neurological, interpretative, or anatomical anomalies of the visual processes, and the prescribing or employment of lenses, prisms, frames, mountings, visual training procedure, topical pharmaceutical agents , oral antibiotics, and oral analgesic agents for diagnostic and treatment purposes, and any other means or method for the correction, remedy, or relief of any insufficiencies or abnormal conditions of the visual processes of the human eye and its appendages except surgery. However, an optometrist may remove superficial foreign bodies from the eye. The prescription of contact lenses, except by a practitioner licensed under chapter 36-4, constitutes the practice of optometry. An optometrist is one who practices optometry under the provisions of this chapter.
Section 2. That chapter 36-7 be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as follows:
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. That § 36-7-1 be amended to read as follows:
36-7-1. The practice of optometry is declared to be a profession and defined as examination of the human eye and its appendages, and the employment of any means for the measurement of the powers of visions, or any visual, muscular, neurological, interpretative, or anatomical anomalies of the visual processes, and the prescribing or employment of lenses, prisms, frames, mountings, visual training procedure, topical pharmaceutical agents , oral antibiotics, and oral analgesic agents for diagnostic and treatment purposes, and any other means or method for the correction, remedy, or relief of any insufficiencies or abnormal conditions of the visual processes of the human eye and its appendages except surgery. However, an optometrist may remove superficial foreign bodies from the eye. The prescription of contact lenses, except by a practitioner licensed under chapter 36-4, constitutes the practice of optometry. An optometrist is one who practices optometry under the provisions of this chapter.
Section 2. That chapter 36-7 be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as follows:
An optometrist shall consult with a physician licensed pursuant to chapter 36-4 prior to
prescribing or administering oral antibiotics. If possible, the consultation shall be with a physician
who has prior knowledge of the patient's medical history.
