Optometrists in Kansas are now permitted to perform some laser surgeries under a bill signed by Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on March 13.The law allows optometrists to perform laser capsulotomy and laser trabeculoplasty.Its enactment makes for “exciting times in Kansas,” Nate Lighthizer, OD, FAAO, FAAOMS, vice president of the American Academy of Optometric Medicine and Surgery, who testified in support of the bill, told Healio.The law allows optometrists to prescribe and administer pharmaceutical drugs through “all routes of administration, except intraocular injections.”