SACRAMENTO—California optometrists won a landmark legislative victory last week when the state’s Assembly gave its final approval to Bill AB 2236, which would expand the profession’s scope of practice in California to include optometric surgery. Passage of the bill, first reported by Review of Optometry, would allow California’s nearly 7,000 ODs to pursue laser procedures, lesion removal, several types of injections and corneal crosslinking. If signed by Gov. Newsom, it would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2023, and is expected to take roughly two years to implement. Read More