Sponsored bills
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon the request of a school board, to grant such school board up to an additional 180 days to appoint a new division superintendent.
Authorizes the use of golf carts and utility vehicles to cross a one-lane or two-lane highway from one portion to another of a venue hosting an equine event, provided that the crossing occurs on the same day as the equine event, occurs in a temporary traffic control zone with a speed limit of no more than 35 miles per hour, and is monitored and controlled by a uniformed law-enforcement officer.
Provides that the practice of optometry includes the evaluation, examination, diagnosis, and treatment of abnormal or diseased conditions of the human eye and its adnexa by the use of medically recognized and appropriate devices, procedures, or technologies but that it does not include treatment through surgery, including laser surgery, other invasive modalities, or the use of injections, except for certain injections by TPA-certified optometrists and for the treatment of emergency cases of anaphylactic shock with intramuscular epinephrine. The bill authorizes a TPA-certified optometrist to administer therapeutic pharmaceutical agents by injection for the treatment of chalazia by means of an injection of a steroid included in Schedule VI controlled substances, provided that the optometrist provides written evidence that he has completed certain training requirements to the Board of Optometry.