Bill Text: AZ HB2158 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Dispensing contact lenses; technical correction

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-05 - Introduced in House and read first time [HB2158 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2016-HB2158-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: dispensing contact lenses; technical correction

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature

Second Regular Session

2016

 

 

HB 2158

 

Introduced by

Representative Carter

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 32-1771, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to dispensers of contact lenses.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 32-1771, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-1771.  Dispensing contact lenses; conformity with federal law; requirements

A.  All sales of and prescriptions for contact lenses in this state must conform to the federal fairness to contact lens consumers act (15 United States Code sections 7601 through 7610).

B.  Contact lenses used to determine a prescription for contact lenses are considered to be diagnostic lenses.  After the diagnostic and trial period and after the contact lenses have been adequately fitted and the patient has been released from immediate follow-up care by a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter or chapter 13 or 17 of this title, the prescribing optometrist shall provide a prescription for contact lenses at no cost to the patient.

C.  Contact lenses may not be sold or dispensed except pursuant to a prescription order that conforms to state and federal regulations governing prescriptions. END_STATUTE