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2002 SESSION

02-3071

08/09

SENATE BILL 393

COMMITTEE: Public Institutions, Health and Human Services

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill allows a contact lens prescriber to refill a contact lens prescription written by the prescriber.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

2/20/02 2753s

02-3071

08/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Two

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Definition; Prescription for Contact Lenses. Amend RSA 327-A:1, IV to read as follows:

IV. "Prescription for contact lenses" means a dated and signed, written direction specifying that it is for contact lenses and which shall include at least the power, size, curvature, color, and material composition of the contact lenses. A prescription for contact lenses may also include, at the prescriber's professional discretion, other parameters or instructions such as lens manufacturer, prescription expiration date, number of permitted refills, and a statement prohibiting substitutions. Such parameters or instructions shall be honored by a person filling the prescription. Unless otherwise specified by the prescriber for health reasons, a contact lens prescription shall expire one year from the date of issue, however, a prescriber, at his or her discretion, may refill a prescription originally written by the prescriber.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.