West Virginia's House of Delegates has approved expanding the services that optometrists can perform, but has stopped short of laser eye surgery.

Friday's 84-18 vote sends the Senate a downsized version of the bill it had passed earlier.

The measure has spurred sometimes heated debate between optometrists and ophthalmologists over the training needed to perform the procedures involved.

The House Health and Human Resources Committee removed a key part of the bill earlier this week by amending out three types of laser surgery. The remaining procedures include certain injections.

Only one state, Oklahoma, allows optometrists to perform laser surgery.

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