00CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 382(STA)                                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to the Board of Dispensing Opticians; and providing for an                                             
02 effective date."                                                                                                        
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 08.03.010(c)(11) is amended to read:                                                                
05   (11)  Board of Dispensing Opticians (AS 08.71.010) -- June 30, 2002                                                
06 [1996];                                                                                                                 
07    * Sec. 2.  AS 08.71.080 is amended to read:                                                                          
08  Sec. 08.71.080.  LICENSE REQUIRED.  A person may not act as a dispensing                                              
09 optician in the state unless the person is licensed under this chapter.  In order to be                                 
10 licensed under this chapter, a person shall pass an examination given by the board,                                     
11 unless the person is eligible for licensing without examination under AS 08.71.145                                    
12 [AS 08.71.150].  A license shall be issued for (1) the dispensing of contact lenses, or                                 
13 (2) the dispensing of other lenses, eyeglasses, spectacles, artificial eyes, and their                                  
14 appurtenances, or (3) both.  The board shall by endorsement on the license designate                                    

01 for which aspect of dispensing opticianry the license is issued.  The board shall license                               
02 successful examinees.                                                                                                   
03    * Sec. 3.  AS 08.71.090 is amended to read:                                                                          
04  Sec. 08.71.090.  CONTENT OF EXAMINATION.  To be licensed as a                                                         
05 dispensing optician, a person, unless eligible for licensing without examination under                               
06 AS 08.71.145 [AS 08.71.150,] shall pass an examination given by the board.  At the                                     
07 discretion of the board, the examination may test orally, in writing, or otherwise,                                     
08 knowledge and skills in any or all of the following subjects: optics, anatomy,                                          
09 laboratory technology, ophthalmic dispensing, contact lens technology, technical                                        
10 mathematics and physics, and business concepts of optical dispensing.                                                   
11    * Sec. 4.  AS 08.71.145 is amended to read:                                                                          
12  Sec. 08.71.145.  LICENSURE BY CREDENTIALS.  A person with a valid                                                     
13 license as a dispensing optician from another state, territory, district, or possession of                              
14 the United States with licensing requirements substantially equivalent to or higher                                    
15 than those of this state shall be issued a license without examination for those                                       
16 professional areas in which the person is licensed upon payment of any fee and                                          
17 documentation that the board may require by regulation.                                                                 
18    * Sec. 5.  AS 08.71.150 is repealed.                                                                                 
19    * Sec. 6.  This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).