BILL NUMBER: SB 492	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 3167 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to optometry.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 492, as introduced, Hernandez. Optometric corporations.
   The Optometry Practice Act creates the State Board of Optometry,
which licenses optometrists and regulates their practice. The act
requires an optometric corporation, as defined, in conducting its
practice, to observe and be bound by statutes, rules, and regulations
to the same extent as a person holding a license to practice
optometry. The act authorizes the board to formulate and enforce
rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of the
statutes governing optometric corporations, as specified.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
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 3167 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   3167.  The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations
to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including
rules and regulations requiring  (a) that the  
both of the following: 
    (a)     The  articles of incorporation
or bylaws of an optometric corporation shall  include a
provision whereby the   provide for the sale of any
 capital stock of  such   the 
corporation owned by a disqualified person  (as 
 , as  defined in the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation
 Act)   Act  , or a deceased person
 shall be   sold  to the
corporation or to the remaining shareholders of  such
  the  corporation within  such 
 the  time as  such   the  rules
and regulations may provide  ; and (b) that an  
. 
    (b)     An  optometric corporation
 ,  as a condition of obtaining a certificate pursuant to
the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act and this article  ,
 shall provide adequate security by insurance or otherwise for
 claims   any claim  against it by 
its patients   a patient  arising out of the
rendering of professional services.