Laser eye surgery is surgery within the eye. The laser vaporizes whatever tissue is in focus at that instant. Vaporizing tissue is surgery, just like cutting with a scalpel. 

No one should be allowed to do laser surgery without sufficient training!  Surgery is not something you learn from a book. It is a skill that takes practice to learn, and it requires someone already very skilled to supervise (proctor} and save you from making mistakes until you are proficient. 

No one should be allowed to do surgery without training and practice (supervised) on live patients. The living human eyeball is nothing like a stationary plastic model. The eyeball is the fastest moving object in the body. And it does move, very often, and often without warning. Most patients who need laser eye surgery are older and have multiple other medical problems. They notoriously do not keep their eyes still, even with a laser pointed at them. Breathing, nerve, muscle, and other health problems can make it impossible to even keep their head still.

The laser vaporizes whatever is in front of it the instant it fires. If a patient moves, that can be disastrous. 

Again, laser eye surgery requires training and practice on LIVE patients with someone very skilled proctoring and ready to save you from screwing up until you are proficient. 

Optometrists are essential for reaching patients who need eye care. But they are not trained in surgery and cannot learn it from a book and a plastic model

Vote against this bill and protect our citizens.  Thank you.