Urge Your Legislator to Oppose Expansion of Prescribing Authority for Naturopathic Doctors (SB 538) SB 538 (Hueso) would allow naturopathic doctors to independently prescribe Schedule V and non-scheduled prescription medications. August 16, 2016 Advocacy, Politics and Medicine Politics, Prescribing, Scope of Practice 0 0 Comment Read More »
Urge Your Legislator to Oppose Midwife Scope of Practice Expansion Bill (AB 1306) AB 1306 (Burke) authorizes a certified nurse midwife to provide medical services and perform medical procedures without clinical supervision. Recent amendments to AB 1306 deleted language referring to California's corporate practice of medicine bar. August 10, 2016 Advocacy, Politics and Medicine Politics, Scope of practice 0 0 Comment Read More »
Assembly Panel Rejects Nurse Practitioners' Scope-of-Practice Bill; Optometry Bill to be Heard Next Week Legislative alert: Contact Asm. Phil Ting to urge a NO vote on SB 622, bill to allow optometrists to perform scalpel and laser surgeries, administer immunizations, and perform or order laboratory and diagnostic imaging tests with minimal education and training. July 1, 2015 Advocacy, Politics and Medicine SB 323, SB 622, scope of practice, SFMS advocacy 0 0 Comment Read More »
SB 492 (Optometrist Scope Bill) Eliminated from Legislative Session SFMS/CMA has successfully quashed a scope-of-practice bill (SB 492) that originally would have allowed optometrists to perform scalpel and laser surgical eye procedures and medication injections. August 25, 2014 Advocacy, CMA optometrists, scope of practice, SB 492 0 0 Comment Read More »
Legislative Update: SB 492 (Optometry Scope of Practice) SB 492 (Hernandez) moved out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday, only after the CMA advocacy team successfully stripped the most egregious language from the bill. However, SB 492 will still allow Optometrists to administer flu and shingles vaccines. August 15, 2014 Advocacy, CMA Scope of practice, optometry, SB 492, scalpel surgery 0 0 Comment Read More »