TX Attorney General Opinion. Occupational Licensing of Physicians & Optometrists

KP-0297 (2020) clarifies which licensing agency has authority when a physician, a retailer and an optometrist co-exist in one space.

The takeaways:

• Physicians without a doubt can practice optometry
• just because an act is done at the physician’s direction does not create a blanket exemption from the Texas Optometry Act 
• without this view, the Optometry Act is negated, an optometrist remains regulated by the Optometry Board.