Bill > A1399

Introduced Session

This bill directs the State Board of Education to require each child age 6 and under who is entering a public preschool, public school, or a Head Start Program for the first time to have a comprehensive eye examination completed by an optometrist or ophthalmologist by January 1 of the child's initial year of enrollment in the school or program. The Department of Health will maintain a list of resources from which a parent or guardian may obtain a free or reduced price comprehensive eye examination. The list will be posted on the Department of Health's website and will be provided to each public preschool, public school, and Head Start Program. A principal, director, or other person in charge of a public preschool, public school, or Head Start Program must collect from the child's parent or guardian evidence of the child's comprehensive eye examination, as provided by regulation of the State board. A comprehensive eye examination that was performed no more than one year prior to a child's initial enrollment in a public preschool, public school, or Head Start Program will satisfy the requirements under the bill.

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Yvonne Lopez (D)*,  Angela Mcknight (D)*,  Anthony Verrelli (D)*,  Bob Auth (R),  Daniel Benson (D),  Clinton Calabrese (D),  Ralph Caputo (D),  Nicholas Chiaravalloti (D),  Joe Danielsen (D),  Serena DiMaso (R),  Aura Dunn (R),  Mila Jasey (D),  Angelica Jimenez (D),  Sean Kean (R),  Pedro Mejia (D),  Gabriela Mosquera (D),  Nancy Muñoz (R),  Carol Murphy (D),  Annette Quijano (D),  Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D),  Gary Schaer (D),  Shanique Speight (D),  Edward Thomson (R),  Britnee Timberlake (D),  Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D),  Andrew Zwicker (D), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee (on 01/14/2020)

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