FINAL BILL REPORT

                 ESHB 1389

                         C 178 L 95

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Concerning the supervision of apprentice opticians.

Sponsors:  House Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Representatives Dyer and Morris).

House Committee on Health Care

Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care

Background:  Apprentice opticians receive training and direct supervision in an optician's practice, and may be supervised by either a physician ophthalmologist, an optometrist, or a dispensing optician.

An apprentice may have only one designated supervisor, and in the absence of that supervisor cannot continue training.

Summary:  An apprentice optician is required to have a primary supervisor who is responsible for the majority of the work and direct supervision of the apprentice in the apprenticeship program.  But in the absence of the primary supervisor, the apprentice may be supervised by another qualified supervisor without any interruption in the apprenticeship program.

Votes on Final Passage:

House     98 0

Senate    40 0

Effective:  July 23, 1995