BILL NUMBER: SB 920	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 3040 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to optometry.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 920, as introduced, Hernandez. Optometry.
   Existing law, the Optometry Practice Act, provides for the
licensure and regulation of optometrists by the State Board of
Optometry. Existing law prohibits a person from engaging in the
practice of optometry, or taking other specified actions, without
obtaining a certificate of registration from the board, and provides
that the use of certain items is prima facie evidence of the practice
of optometry.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive, technical changes to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 3040 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   3040.   (a)    It is unlawful for a person to
engage in the practice of optometry or to display a sign or in any
other way to advertise or hold himself or herself out as an
optometrist without having first obtained a certificate of
registration from the board under the provisions of this chapter or
under the provisions of any former act relating to the practice of
optometry. The practice of optometry includes the performing or
controlling of any acts set forth in Section 3041. 
   In 
    (b)     In  any prosecution for a
violation of  this section   subdivision (a)
 , the use of test cards, test lenses, or of trial frames is
prima facie evidence of the practice of optometry.