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Turning somebody else's prescription into glasses or contact lenses that fit the person in front of them is the work, and whether it needs a license at all depends on the state it's done in.
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Texas issues no optician license and still writes the rules of the room. Where an optometrist shares premises with a dispensing optician, solid partitions have to separate the two from floor to ceiling, with a separate patient entrance; the optometrist may own that dispensing business, hold stock or be a partner, as long as its records and accounts stay separate from the optometric practice (Tex. Occ. Code 351.364). Every duty in that section falls on the optometrist beside you.
Your questions about licensed optician jobs, answered
- Which states license opticians?
21 of them plus Puerto Rico, on the ABO-NCLE directory, dated April 2025. New York licenses ophthalmic dispensing, Florida licenses opticians through its Board of Opticianry, Nevada licenses dispensing opticians, California registers spectacle and contact lens dispensers through its Board of Optometry, and Washington licenses through its Department of Health. The regulator isn't always a board of opticianry, so start from the directory instead of guessing the agency.
- How do people get in where a license is required?
Florida shows the usual shape. Its law takes either an associate degree in opticianry or a 6,240-hour registered apprenticeship, supervised by an optician licensed for at least a year, an optometrist or a physician, and every applicant sits the licensure examination either way. The apprenticeship replaces the degree, so nobody skips the exam by taking it.
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