PRINTER'S NO. 836
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
795
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY ARGALL, ALLOWAY, TARTAGLIONE, AUMENT, SMITH,
SCAVELLO, TEPLITZ, WOZNIAK, DINNIMAN, McILHINNEY, COSTA,
EICHELBERGER AND HUGHES, MAY 1, 2015
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
MAY 1, 2015
AN ACT
Amending the act of December 20, 1985 (P.L.457, No.112),
entitled "An act relating to the right to practice medicine
and surgery and the right to practice medically related acts;
reestablishing the State Board of Medical Education and
Licensure as the State Board of Medicine and providing for
its composition, powers and duties; providing for the
issuance of licenses and certificates and the suspension and
revocation of licenses and certificates; provided penalties;
and making repeals," further providing for definitions and
for applicability of act.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2 of the act of December 20, 1985
(P.L.457, No.112), known as the Medical Practice Act of 1985, is
amended by adding a definition to read:
Section 2. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
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"Ophthalmic surgery." The part of the practice of medicine
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that entails a treatment or procedure that is diagnostic,
palliative, therapeutic, rehabilitative, cosmetic or refractive
for conditions or disease processes involving the eye or ocular
adnexa, or both, that utilizes lasers, cautery, ionizing or
nonionizing radiation, scalpels, probes, needles or other
instruments and in which the human eye or ocular adnexa, or
both, is cut, drained, penetrated, thermally altered, vaporized,
frozen, burned, sutured, probed, manipulated, injected or
otherwise altered by any mechanical, thermal, light-based,
electromagnetic, radiofrequency, ultrasonic, chemical or
pharmacologic means. The term does not include hot or cold
compresses.
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Section 2. Section 49(a)(3) of the act is amended to read:
Section 49. Applicability of act.
(a) General rule.--The provisions of this act shall not
apply either directly or indirectly, by intent or purpose, to
affect the practice of:
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(3) Optometry, as authorized by the act of June 6, 1980
(P.L.197, No.57), known as the Optometric Practice and
Licensure Act, except that the practice of optometry does not
include ophthalmic surgery.
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Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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