Safe Surgery Arkansas

Arkansans for Healthy Eyes, the proponents of Arkansas Act 579 of 2019, which allows optometrists to use lasers and scalpels for certain procedures, filed a lawsuit Friday in the Arkansas Supreme Court. read more >

Arkansas officials on Friday approved thousands of signatures submitted for a referendum on a law expanding the procedures optometrists can perform. read more >

An Arkansas judge dismisses a lawsuit trying to block from this year's ballot a referendum on a new law expanding the procedures that optometrists can perform. read more >

Opponents of a new Arkansas law that expands the procedures optometrists can perform are suing the state for rejecting an effort to hold a referendum on the measure next year. read more >

Arkansas election officials on Friday rejected an attempt to hold a referendum next year on a new state law that expands what procedures optometrists can perform and sparked an unusually expensive and public lobbying fight. read more >

Two groups are facing off over Arkansas Act 579 of 2019, which allows optometrists to use lasers and scalpels for certain procedures. read more >

A coalition of medical doctors called Safe Surgery Arkansas announced Tuesday the formation of a ballot question committee to coordinate a statewide referendum challenging Act 579 of 2019. read more >