(a) The Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to approve or disapprove hospitals, convalescent homes, boarding homes, nursing homes or foster homes and to contract for their services on a basis not to exceed their per diem cost basis. The Commission is hereby also authorized and empowered to approve or disapprove professional personnel for the various types of services authorized and contemplated by this act, and to contract for their services.
(b) Only a person who has been duly licensed by the Board of Examiners in Optometry to practice optometry in this state, or a person who has been duly licensed by the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision to practice medicine or surgery in this state shall be employed or paid under the provisions of this act, or from appropriations made by this act, to examine the eyes of a visually handicapped child to determine whether or not he has a defective vision that can be corrected with lenses, or to fit and furnish lenses for any such child.