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                          HOUSE BILL 1509

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Representatives Dyer, Backlund, Skinner, Mielke and Thibaudeau

Read first time 01/27/95.  Referred to Committee on Health Care.

Altering the duties of the optometry board.

    AN ACT Relating to the optometry board; and amending RCW 18.54.070

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 18.54.070 and 1991 c 3 s 140 are each amended to read as follows:

    The board has the following powers and duties:

    (1) The board shall prepare the necessary lists of examination questions, conduct examinations, either written or oral or partly written and partly oral, and shall certify to the secretary of health all lists, signed by all members conducting the examination, of all applicants for licenses who have successfully passed the examination and a separate list of all applicants for licenses who have failed to pass the examination, together with a copy of all examination questions used, and the written answers to questions on written examinations submitted by each of the applicants.

    (2) The board shall adopt rules and regulations to promote safety, protection and the welfare of the public, to carry out the purposes of this chapter, to aid the board in the performance of its powers and duties((, and to govern the practice of optometry)).

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