No Optometry Scope or Laser Bill Exists in California's 2025-26 Session — an Absence Established by Enumeration, Not by Failing to Find One

This entry publishes a NEGATIVE finding on purpose, because an unrecorded absence gets re-chased every cycle. Prior sessions repeatedly hunted for a current California optometry scope-expansion or laser-privileges bill on the strength of advocacy-page signals, and repeatedly could not confirm a bill number.

The question is now settled the only way an absence can be settled: by enumerating the SUBJECT field of all 18,444 bill-version records in the Legislature’s own bulk data for the 2025-26 session. No optometry scope or laser bill appears.

WHAT THIS DOES AND DOES NOT MEAN: it means no such bill is pending as of this review, so an FQHC planning vision staffing should not assume a scope change is coming this session. It does not mean optometry scope is settled policy, that a bill cannot be introduced in a future session, or that gut-and-amend cannot repurpose an existing vehicle late in a session.

The operative California scope authority remains AB 407 (operative 2022). Re-run the enumeration rather than a keyword search before publishing any future claim that a scope bill is or is not moving.