Eye care: remote assessment – This bill would prohibit a person from operating an assessment mechanism to conduct an eye assessment or to generate a prescription for contact lenses or visual aid glasses to a patient at a California residence unless prescribed requirements are met. The bill would prohibit a person from operating an assessment mechanism to conduct an eye assessment or generate a prescription to a California patient that is under 18 years of age or to a California patient that has not received an in-person comprehensive eye health examination by an optometrist or physician and surgeon within the previous 24 months. The bill would require that the evaluation, treatment, and consultation recommendations by a licensed optometrist or physician and surgeon utilizing an assessment mechanism be held to the same standards of appropriate practice as those in traditional in-person clinical settings.