The California Optometric Association is about improving access to eye healthcare throughout California. This is your opportunity to Give voice, Create change, Achieve goals and Ensure the future.

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

1978  Legislation passed to allow DFE

1986  Medicare parity throughout the United States

1993  First attempt at therapeutics bill/failed

2001  First past therapeutics bill/foreign body removal and infection treatment and an essentially insurmountable glaucoma treatment pathway

2008   Second therapeutics bill passed with attainable glaucoma treatment

2010   ACA passed with Harkin amendment

2014   Third therapeutics bill to redefine optometry – SB492

1986 – 2014  Numerous attempts to roll back the clock or limit optometry or allow refraction by opticians defeated