State-by-State Updates
With the ever-evolving status of COVID-19, especially as it varies from state to state, the AOA has dedicated this resource to providing real-time information around the areas that are of most importance to doctors of optometry and members of the AOA.
This map offers state-by-state resources and information regarding COVID-19, and other issues of importance that may arise.
Please contact Daniel Carey at dcarey@aoa.org.
California warily watches ‘not-a-doctor’ wording in Senate bill
A recently amended California bill tackles who can and can’t be called a doctor in California. The California Optometric Association is on top of the issue, making sure the exclusionary wording does not apply to the state’s doctors of optometry. Not-a-doctor legislation emerged in several states last year, each effort defeated by optometry.
Contacts Lens Prescription Modernization Act introduced as next step in ending damaging robocalls
The fight to end the problematic loophole of robocalls continues with the introduction of Senate bill S.4083, a companion bill to H.R. 2748 from 2023.
'All the advocacy firepower’ called up at AOA on Capitol Hill
Over 500 AOA doctors and optometry students championed the profession’s priority issues in Washington, D.C., including a growing Congressional focus on vision plan abuses.