CHAPTER NUMBER: 626
File Code: Health Occupations
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Roesser, Hollinger, Stoltzfus, and McCabe
- Entitled:
-
Optometrists and Physicians - Replacement Contact Lens Prescriptions
Requiring licensed optometrists and physicians to ensure that each
prescription for specified types of contact lenses meets specified
requirements; specifying requirements for the dispensing of
replacement contact lenses; authorizing a specified patient to request
a contact lens prescription from specified licensees; providing that
specified licensees are exempt from liability for specified injuries
to or conditions of their patients under specified circumstances; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/6
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 2/18
- Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/19
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/20
- Favorable with Amendments
- Laid Over (Senator Bromwell) Adopted
- 3/23
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/25
- Third Reading Passed (44-0)
- 4/10
- Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- Senate Requests House Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Hollinger, Pinsky, Craig
- 4/12
- Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- Senate Requests House Recede
- 4/13
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Hollinger, Pinsky, Craig
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/21
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 626
House Action
- 3/25
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 3/26
- Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/9
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 4/4
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/5
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (89-32)
- 4/8
- House Refuses to Recede
- 4/10
- House Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- McHale, Frush, Stup
- 4/11
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (114-11)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Jean W. Roesser, District 15
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Christopher J. McCabe, District 14
- Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
- FINES
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- LIABILITY -see also- GOOD SAMARITAN
- LICENSES -see also- ALC. BEVERAGES LICENSES; DRIVERS' LIC
- OPTOMETRISTS
- PATIENTS
- PHYSICIANS
- RECORDS -see also- RCDNGS; LAND RCDS; VITAL RCDS; CRIM BKGD.
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health Occupations
- (
11-404.4 ,
11-504 ,
14-507 ,
14-608
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 234617/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 23, 1998 at:
9:54 p.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 369986/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 9, 1998 at:
10:46 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents:
- Report Number: 343701/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 13, 1998 at:
11:46 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 25, 1998: Third Reading Passed (44-0)
- April 13, 1998: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- House
- April 5, 1998: Third Reading Passed (89-32)
- April 11, 1998: Third Reading Passed (114-11)
