BILL NUMBER: AB 602	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2009

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 amended, 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  require  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  
that is different from the address of the optician's place of
business, and, if provided, would require the board to send all
further application and renewal   materials to that address
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   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 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 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.   An individual, corporation,
or firm may provide an address to the board at which to receive
application and renewal materials that is different from the address
provided for the place of business. If provided, the board shall send
all further application and renewal materials to that address.