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STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senators Cleary, Alexander, Scott, Rankin, McGill, Williams, Ford, Knotts and Reese
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Introduced in the Senate on February 3, 2011
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Medical Affairs
Summary: Optometrist
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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2/3/2011 Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 8)
2/3/2011 Senate Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs
(Senate Journal-page 8)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 40-37-290, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE MANNER OF PRESCRIBING AND ADMINISTERING PHARMACEUTICAL AGENTS BY AN OPTOMETRIST, SO AS TO PERMIT INJECTIONS INTO THE EYELID AS AN EXCEPTION TO THE PROHIBITION AGAINST MEDICATIONS BEING GIVEN BY INJECTION OR INTRAVENOUSLY.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 40-37-290(5) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 135 of 2005, is further amended to read:
"(5) no medications may be given by injection or intravenously except for injections into the eyelid."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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