Christine Jordan SextonMarch 8, 2024
3min0
'In the (2024) eyeball wars, neither side blinked.'
Tag: eyeball wars
Christine Jordan SextonMarch 8, 2024Christine Jordan SextonMarch 7, 2024
6min0
Senate President Kathleen Passidomo's bill would ban optometrists from calling themselves physicians.
Christine Jordan SextonMarch 7, 2024
3min0
'The optometrists objected to the bill last year. We passed it; it was vetoed. They lobbied hard. They are wrong.'
Christine Jordan SextonOctober 24, 2023
10min0
Enter Sandman? Florida lawmakers are being asked to consider anesthesia bills.
Christine Jordan SextonJune 2, 2023
7min0
'Staff shared with us a few weeks ago that a veto was forthcoming.'
Gray RohrerJune 2, 2023
2min0
That includes one bill that was part of the ongoing 'eyeball wars' in Tallahassee.
Drew WilsonMarch 10, 20215min1680
Several Senators said the bill needs work before its next committee stop.
Drew WilsonFebruary 2, 20215min1914
The bills would allow optometrists to perform certain types of eye surgery and prescribe medications.
Peter SchorschMay 1, 2017
5min327
After suffering a significant setback last week in the Eyeball Wars, optometrists may be mounting a last-ditch effort to get their bill rolling in the House. When will this bad bill just die? It has long past time to put an end to the Eyeball Wars in 2017, perhaps for good. Last week, HB 1037 […]
A.G. GancarskiApril 20, 2017
2min400
A bill seeking to expand what optometrists could do — namely, performing surgery and prescribing opiates — was an agenda item in the Florida House Health and Human Services Committee Thursday. However, the bill at the center of Florida’s Eyeball Wars went unheard. HB 1037, sponsored by Rep. Manny Diaz, barely cleared Health and Human Services […]