Contact Lens Prescription Release Act of 2002

Summary

Contact Lens Prescription Release Act of 2002 - Instructs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate a rule on ophthalmic practice that requires a contact lens prescriber to provide the patient (or, upon request, the patient's agent) a copy of the contact lens prescription. Sets forth guidelines for the rule pertaining to expiration dates for contact lenses. Directs the FTC to promulgate a rule to make it an unfair trade practice for a contact lenses industry member to: (1) publish any advertisement or sales presentation relating to contact lenses that represents that they may be obtained without a valid prescription; or (2) sell contact lenses to a consumer or agent of a consumer unless the seller obtains a copy of an unexpired prescription or verifies the prescription by notifying the prescriber of the intended sale.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

3 official files

• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 11 June 2002

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in Senate (PDF)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 11 June 2002

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 11 June 2002

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.