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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                   Bill No. HB 315

    Amendment No. 4 (for drafter's use only)

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11  The Committee on Health Regulation offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 1, line 14, of the bill

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17         Section 1.  Subsection (3) of section 484.002, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read

19         484.002  Definitions.--As used in this part:

20         (3)  "Opticianry" means the preparation and dispensing

21  of lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, contact lenses, and other

22  optical devices to the intended user or agent thereof, upon

23  the written prescription of a licensed allopathic or

24  osteopathic physician medical doctor or optometrist who is

25  duly licensed to practice or upon presentation of a duplicate

26  prescription.  The selection of frame designs, the actual

27  sales transaction, and the transfer of physical possession of

28  lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, contact lenses, and other

29  optical devices subsequent to performance of all services of

30  the optician shall not be considered the practice of

31  opticianry; however, such physical possession shall not be

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  1  transferred until the optician has completed the fitting of

  2  the optical device upon the customer.  The practice of

  3  opticianry also includes the duplication of lenses accurately

  4  as to power, without prescription.  A board-certified optician

  5  qualified and operating under rules established by the board

  6  may fill, fit, adapt, or dispense any soft contact lens

  7  prescription.  Such optician may fill, fit, adapt, or dispense

  8  any extended wear or hard contact lens prescription to the

  9  extent authorized to do so by the prescribing allopathic or

10  osteopathic physician medical doctor or optometrist.

11         Section 2.  Subsection (1) and (2) of section 484.012,

12  Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         484.012  Prescriptions; filing; duplication of

14  prescriptions; duplication of lenses.--

15         (1)  Any prescription written by a duly licensed

16  allopathic or osteopathic physician medical doctor or

17  optometrist for any lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, contact

18  lenses, or other optical devices shall be kept on file for a

19  period of 2 years with the optical establishment that fills

20  such prescription.  However, the licensed optician may

21  maintain a copy of the prescription.

22         (2)  Upon request by the intended user of the

23  prescribed lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, contact lenses, or

24  other optical devices, or by an agent of the intended user,

25  the optician who fills the original prescription shall

26  duplicate, on a form prescribed by rule of the board, the

27  original prescription. However, for medical reasons only, the

28  prescribing allopathic or osteopathic physician medical doctor

29  or optometrist may, upon the original prescription, prohibit

30  its duplication.  Any duplication shall be considered a valid

31  prescription to be filled for a period of 5 years from the

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  1  date of the original prescription, except that a contact lens

  2  prescription shall be considered a valid prescription to be

  3  filled for a period of 2 years from the date of the original

  4  prescription.

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  9  And the title is amended as follows:

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13         amending ss. 484.002 and 484.012, F.S.;

14         providing requirements for written

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