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As Introduced
122nd General Assembly
Regular Session
1997-1998 | H. B. No. 553 |
REPRESENTATIVE COUGHLIN
A BILL
To amend sections 4725.08 and 4725.091 of the Revised Code to eliminate a
provision that prohibits a person seeking a
license to practice optometry from
taking the licensing examination more than four
times.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 4725.08 and 4725.09l of the Revised Code be amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 4725.08. (A) Each person who desires to commence the
practice of optometry shall file with the secretary of the state
board of optometry a written application for the licensing
examination.
Each application for the licensing examination shall be
accompanied by the fee required under section 4725.10 of the
Revised Code and shall be filed with the secretary not more than
sixty nor less than thirty days prior to the day of any meeting
at which the applicable examination is to be held.
Each application for the licensing examination shall be
upon the form prescribed by the board and shall be verified by
the oath of the applicant. In addition, it shall contain
information and evidence satisfactory to the board showing the
eligibility of the applicant to take the examination.
(B) No person is eligible to take the licensing
examination unless he THE PERSON is at least eighteen years of
age, of good
moral character, has satisfactorily completed a course of study
of at least six college years, and has graduated from a school of
optometry accredited by the board; provided that the school of
optometry requires at least two academic years of study with
credits of at least sixty semester hours or ninety quarter hours
in a college of arts and sciences accredited by the association
of American universities or the north central association of
colleges and secondary schools or a similar regional accrediting
agency as a prerequisite to admission to the courses in
optometry; and additionally provided that the school of optometry
requires a course of study of at least four academic years with
credits of at least one hundred thirty-four semester hours or two
hundred quarter hours. No school of optometry shall be
accredited unless it is accredited by the established
professional optometric accrediting agency, and no school of
optometry shall be accredited except by an affirmative vote of a
majority of the members of the board. The board may require
higher standards for the accrediting of the schools of optometry.
The licensing examination shall consist of two parts. Part
one of the examinination shall consist of tests in practical,
theoretical, and physiological optics, in theoretical and
practical optometry, in the anatomy and physiology of the eye, in
pathology, and in the optometric aspects of whatever additional
related social, physical, and biological sciences are determined
by the board to be appropriate subject matters for examination,
provided that the schools and colleges approved by the board
include such subject matters in the prescribed curriculum. Part
two of the examination shall be a pharmacology examination and
shall test the applicant's knowledge derived from the course of
study prescribed under division (C) of this section.
The licensing examination shall be prepared, administered,
and graded by the national board of examiners in optometry or a
professionally qualified testing organization recognized by the
state board of optometry.
(C) The state board of optometry shall prescribe by rule
an eighty-seven clock-hour course of study and training to be
completed at an institution accredited by a regional or
professional accreditation organization that is recognized or
approved by the council on post-secondary accreditation or the
United States department of education or its successor. The
course of study and training shall include, but is not limited
to, instruction in general and ocular pharmacology, including the
nature of adverse reactions caused by pharmaceutical agents and
emergency steps to be taken in such cases; signs, symptoms, and
treatment of ocular disease, injury, or abnormality; ocular signs
and symptoms of systemic disease; appropriate criteria for
referrals to physicians; and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
(D) No person shall be permitted by the board to take more
than four licensing examinations.
Sec. 4725.091. (A) A person who, on the effective date of
this section MAY 19, 1992, holds a valid
certificate of licensure
or topical ocular pharmaceutical agents certificate issued by the
state board of optometry may continue to engage in the practice
of optometry as provided by the certificate of licensure or
topical ocular pharmaceutical agents certificate provided he THE
PERSON
continues to comply with sections 4725.01 to 4725.21 of the
Revised Code as required by his THE PERSON'S certificate of
licensure or
topical ocular pharmaceutical agents certificate.
(B) The board shall issue a therapeutic pharmaceutical
agents certificate under division (A)(3) of section 4725.09 of
the Revised Code to any optometrist who holds a certificate of
licensure issued by the board and meets the requirements of
divisions (C) and (E) of this section not later than five years
after the effective date of this section MAY 19,
1992.
(C)(1) A licensed optometrist seeking a therapeutic
pharmaceutical agents certificate under division (A)(3) of
section 4725.09 of the Revised Code who does not hold a valid
topical ocular pharmaceutical agents certificate shall complete
the course of study in general and ocular pharmacology prescribed
by the board under division (C) of section 4725.08 of the Revised
Code and pass part two of the optometry licensing examination
administered by the board under section 4725.08 of the Revised
Code.
(2) A licensed optometrist seeking a therapeutic
pharmaceutical agents certificate issued under division (A)(3) of
section 4725.09 of the Revised Code who holds a valid topical
ocular pharmaceutical agents certificate shall complete a thirty
clock-hour course of study in general and ocular pharmacology in
accordance with division (D) of this section and pass part two of
the optometry licensing examination administered by the board
under section 4725.08 of the Revised Code.
(D) The board shall prescribe by rule the course of study
provided for by division (C)(2) of this section. The course of
study shall emphasize the treatment of ocular disease and shall
be completed at an institution accredited by a regional or
professional accreditation organization that is recognized or
approved by the council on post-secondary accreditation or the
United States department of education or its successor.
(E) An optometrist who has completed the appropriate
course of study under divisions (C) and (D) of this section may
apply to the board to take part two of the licensing examination.
Each application shall be on the form prescribed by the board and
shall be verified by the oath of the applicant. It shall contain
information and evidence satisfactory to the board showing the
eligibility of the applicant to take part two of the examination
and shall be accompanied by the fee required by section 4725.10
of the Revised Code. In addition to the examination dates the
board sets for applicants under division (A)(4) of section
4725.09 of the Revised Code, the board shall set dates on which
part two of the examination may be taken by applicants under
division (A)(3) of that section. No optometrist shall be
permitted by the board to take part two of the examination more
than four times.
Section 2. That existing sections 4725.08 and 4725.091 of the Revised Code are
hereby repealed.
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