BILL NUMBER: AB 981INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Mayes FEBRUARY 26, 2015 An act to amend Section 527 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 981, as introduced, Mayes. Eyeglasses. Existing law prohibits an optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon from dispensing, prescribing, or selling eyeglasses to a person who's sight is limited to one eye, or to specified public safety personnel who would normally wear those eyeglasses for on-duty employment, unless the eyeglasses are made of specified materials to resist shattering and the frames are nonflammable. An optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon who violates these provisions is subject to discipline by his or her accrediting board. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 527 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 527. Any dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon who violates this article is subject to disciplinary action by the board which issues his or her certificate to engage in practice.