Optometrists To Recognize Legislators At Reception. (WINK).
FRANKFORT, Ky. Optometrists who won quick and overwhelming approval this year for a bill allowing them to perform new procedures have invited all members of the General Assembly to a reception next month at the Hyatt Downtown Hotel in Louisville.
You are cordially invited to be recognized at the Champions of Vision Reception, says the invitation, sent to all 138 members of the Kentucky General Assembly by the Kentucky Optometric Association.
Darlene Eakin, the associations executive director, said the group is simply showing our appreciation to the legislators, just like all the groups that have receptions all through the session.
The reception will be from 6 to 9 p.m. April 28 at the Hyatt during the associations annual spring convention. Eakin said it is not unusual for lobbying groups to have such receptions during their annual meetings between legislative sessions.
She said the optometrists have previously invited lawmakers to receptions during their annual conventions, though she said she couldnt recall the last time they had done so.
During this years regular legislative session, The Courier-Journal reported that in 2009 and 2010 the optometric associations political action committee and its members gave more than $400,000 in contributions to the political committees of 137 of the states 138 lawmakers and Gov. Steve Beshear.
That published report didnt slow the rapid consideration given Senate Bill 110, which allows optometrists to perform certain procedures, including some laser surgeries that now must be performed by ophthalmologists, who unlike optometrists are medical doctors.
Ophthalmologists opposed the bill, warning that optometrists lacked the training to do the procedures safely.
Filed on Feb. 7, the bill was assigned to friendly committees in each chamber and became the first measure of the session to clear both the House and Senate. It was signed into law by Beshear on Feb. 24.
Richard Beliles, chairman of Common Cause of Kentucky, said he expects the reception will conform with ethics laws governing such events.
Editor's note: To continue reading (wink if you like), go here.
You are cordially invited to be recognized at the Champions of Vision Reception, says the invitation, sent to all 138 members of the Kentucky General Assembly by the Kentucky Optometric Association.
Darlene Eakin, the associations executive director, said the group is simply showing our appreciation to the legislators, just like all the groups that have receptions all through the session.
The reception will be from 6 to 9 p.m. April 28 at the Hyatt during the associations annual spring convention. Eakin said it is not unusual for lobbying groups to have such receptions during their annual meetings between legislative sessions.
She said the optometrists have previously invited lawmakers to receptions during their annual conventions, though she said she couldnt recall the last time they had done so.
During this years regular legislative session, The Courier-Journal reported that in 2009 and 2010 the optometric associations political action committee and its members gave more than $400,000 in contributions to the political committees of 137 of the states 138 lawmakers and Gov. Steve Beshear.
That published report didnt slow the rapid consideration given Senate Bill 110, which allows optometrists to perform certain procedures, including some laser surgeries that now must be performed by ophthalmologists, who unlike optometrists are medical doctors.
Ophthalmologists opposed the bill, warning that optometrists lacked the training to do the procedures safely.
Filed on Feb. 7, the bill was assigned to friendly committees in each chamber and became the first measure of the session to clear both the House and Senate. It was signed into law by Beshear on Feb. 24.
Richard Beliles, chairman of Common Cause of Kentucky, said he expects the reception will conform with ethics laws governing such events.
Editor's note: To continue reading (wink if you like), go here.
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