Contact Lens Prescription Verification Modernization Act
Sponsored By: Representative Griffith
Introduced
Summary
Modernizes contact lens prescription verification and protects patient health data. The bill requires online sellers to accept secure electronic transmissions of contact lens prescriptions and to encrypt protected health information sent by email.
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- Consumers: People can electronically transmit a copy of their contact lens prescription to online sellers using a method that complies with HIPAA privacy rules.
- Online sellers: Must provide a way for individuals to send prescriptions electronically and must encrypt any protected health information transmitted by email.
- Verification records: Expands required data elements by adding an email address to the information used for prescription verification.
- Telephonic communications: Clarifies that calls made using an artificial or prerecorded voice are not included in the telephonic-communication rule.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Secure online uploads for contact lens prescriptions
If enacted, online sellers would need to let you send your contact lens prescription electronically. The method would have to follow HIPAA privacy rules. Any protected health information sent by email would have to be encrypted. This would apply when you buy contacts online.
New contact info and phone rules for lens sales
If enacted, sellers would need to include an email address in the contact info they record for prescription verification. It would also clarify that calls using an artificial or prerecorded voice would not count under the phone rule for verification. These changes would affect how sellers verify contact lens prescriptions.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Griffith
VA • R
Cosponsors
Bost
IL • R
Sponsored 7/14/2025
Van Orden
WI • R
Sponsored 7/21/2025
Castor (FL)
FL • D
Sponsored 8/26/2025
Brownley
CA • D
Sponsored 8/26/2025
Perez
WA • D
Sponsored 8/26/2025
Lynch
MA • D
Sponsored 10/3/2025
Schrier
WA • D
Sponsored 10/3/2025
Hageman
WY • R
Sponsored 10/3/2025
Krishnamoorthi
IL • D
Sponsored 10/3/2025
Wilson (SC)
SC • R
Sponsored 10/6/2025
Schmidt
KS • R
Sponsored 10/17/2025
Foster
IL • D
Sponsored 10/17/2025
Begich
AK • R
Sponsored 10/28/2025
McBride
DE • D
Sponsored 10/28/2025
Pingree
ME • D
Sponsored 11/7/2025
Norcross
NJ • D
Sponsored 11/7/2025
Barr
KY • R
Sponsored 11/17/2025
Schneider
IL • D
Sponsored 11/17/2025
Sessions
TX • R
Sponsored 11/19/2025
Pocan
WI • D
Sponsored 12/15/2025
Vasquez
NM • D
Sponsored 12/17/2025
Pappas
NH • D
Sponsored 12/18/2025
Lofgren
CA • D
Sponsored 12/18/2025
Crow
CO • D
Sponsored 12/18/2025
Bacon
NE • R
Sponsored 1/7/2026
Mackenzie
PA • R
Sponsored 1/30/2026
Shreve
IN • R
Sponsored 2/24/2026
Mann
KS • R
Sponsored 3/24/2026
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