BILL NUMBER: AB 602	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Price

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to amend Sections 2550 and 2551 of the Business and
Professions Code, relating to dispensing opticians.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 602, as introduced, Price. Dispensing opticians.
   Existing law provides that the right to dispense, sell, or furnish
prescription lenses at retail to the person named in a prescription
is limited to physicians and surgeons, optometrists, and registered
dispensing opticians. Existing law provides for the regulation of
dispensing opticians by the Medical Board of California, and requires
a person engaging in the business of a dispensing optician to be
registered with the board.
   This bill would a person engaging in the business of a dispensing
optician to be registered biennially with the Medical Board of
California. The bill would also authorize a dispensing optician, upon
registration, to provide a mailing address to the board for purposes
of communication.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 2550 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2550.  Individuals, corporations, and firms engaged in the
business of filling prescriptions of physicians and surgeons licensed
by the  Division of Licensing of the  Medical Board
of California or optometrists licensed by the State Board of
Optometry for prescription lenses and kindred products, and, as
incidental to the filling of those prescriptions, doing any or all of
the following acts, either singly or in combination with others,
taking facial measurements, fitting and adjusting those lenses and
fitting and adjusting spectacle frames, shall be known as dispensing
opticians and shall not engage in that business unless 
biennially  registered with the  Division of Licensing
of the  Medical Board of California.
  SEC. 2.  Section 2551 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2551.  Individuals, corporations, and firms shall make application
for registration and shall not engage in that business prior to
being issued a certificate of registration. Application for that
registration shall be on forms prescribed by the board, shall bear
the signature of the individual, or general partners if a
partnership, or the president or secretary if a corporation, and
shall contain the name under which he or she, they  ,  or it
proposes to do business and the business address. Separate
applications shall be made for each place of business and each
application must be accompanied by the application fee prescribed by
Section 2565.  A mailing address may be provided to the board for
the purposes of communication.