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Amends GS 90-114 to amend the definition of the practice of optometry to include surgery, except for a list of eighteen procedures including retina laser procedures and the administration of general anesthesia, effective January 1, 2018.

Amends GS 90-118 to direct the NC State Board of Examiners in Optometry (Board) to identify any procedure, technique, or treatment which the Board determines to require additional education, training, or experience in order for the optometrist performing the treatment, using the technique, or employing the treatment to do so with the requisite skill and standard of care. Prohibits licensed optometrists from performing those procedures, techniques, or treatments unless they have submitted to the Board evidence of completion of all requirements to perform that action, and have been certified by the Board as qualified to perform the treatment.

Directs a new ten-member committee appointed by the Board to recommend to the Board by July 31, 2017, requirements to perform any procedure, technique, or treatment identified by the Board under GS 90-118, as amended above. Directs the Board to consider the recommendations and establish appropriate protocol and criteria for certification. Authorizes the Board to create future committees to recommend future revisions to these protocol and criteria.

Except as otherwise specified, the act is effective when it becomes law.