EYECARE: Coronavirus BRIEFING: Crisis Response Tactics Review of Optometry: CA, NY Win Expanded Scope of Practice Authorities By Staff Friday, October 29, 2021 2:54 PM Optometrists in California will no longer be hamstrung with limited prescribing and treatment authorities, thanks to a twin set of expanded scope of practice bills that were recently signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. The new law also grants ODs permanent privileges to administer COVID-19 vaccines, effective immediately. On the heels of California’s news, the state of New York recently passed an expanded scope of practice bill that will allow its ODs to prescribe a formulary of oral therapeutic pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of eye diseases. Read More