Texas Occupations Code Title 3, Chapter 353 - Contact Lens Prescription Act

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 353.001 - Short Title
  This chapter may be cited as the Contact Lens Prescription Act. Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
• Texas Section 353.002 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 5.318(3), eff. April 2, 2015. (2) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th...
• Texas Section 353.003 - Effect Of Chapter
  This chapter does not prevent or restrict a physician from: (1) treating or prescribing for a patient; or (2) directing or instructing a person under...

SUBCHAPTER C SALE OR DELIVERY OF CONTACT LENSES

• Texas Section 353.004 - Public Information On Prescription Release
  The Texas Optometry Board shall prepare and provide to the public and appropriate state agencies information regarding the release and verification of contact lens prescriptions....
• Texas Section 353.101 - Prohibited Selling Or Dispensing
  (a) A person, other than the prescribing physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist, may not fill a contact lens prescription or sell or dispense contact lenses...
• Texas Section 353.1015 - Verification Procedure
  (a) When seeking verification of a contact lens prescription, a person dispensing contact lenses shall provide the prescribing physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist with the...
• Texas Section 353.102 - Accuracy Required
  A person who dispenses contact lenses under this chapter from a contact lens prescription shall fill the prescription accurately subject to Section 353.103. Acts 1999,...
• Texas Section 353.103 - Authorized Modification Of Prescription
  (a) If a patient presents a contact lens prescription to be filled or asks a person who dispenses contact lenses to verify a contact lens...
• Texas Section 353.104 - Emergency Refill
  (a) If a patient needs an emergency refill of the patient's contact lens prescription, a physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist may telephone or fax the...

SUBCHAPTER D CONTACT LENS PRESCRIPTIONS

• Texas Section 353.105 - Alteration Of Prescription Prohibited
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) and Section 353.103, a person dispensing contact lenses may not alter a contact lens prescription. (b) A person...
• Texas Section 353.151 - Directions For Independent Dispenser; Delegation
  (a) If a physician's directions, instructions, or orders are to be performed or a physician's prescription is to be filled by a person who is...
• Texas Section 353.152 - Requirements For Contact Lens Prescription
  (a) A contact lens prescription must contain, at a minimum: (1) the patient's name; (2) the date the prescription was issued; (3) the manufacturer of...
• Texas Section 353.153 - Term Of Prescription
  A physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist may not issue a contact lens prescription that expires before the first anniversary of the date the patient's prescription...
• Texas Section 353.154 - Short-term Prescription
  If a physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist writes a contact lens prescription for a period of less than one year, the physician, optometrist, or therapeutic...
• Texas Section 353.155 - Extension Of Prescription
  (a) A physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist may extend the expiration date for a contact lens prescription without completing another eye examination. (b) On request...
• Texas Section 353.156 - Patient Access To Prescription; Timing
  (a) A physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist who performs an eye examination and fits a patient for contact lenses shall: (1) prepare and give a...
• Texas Section 353.157 - Limitations On Or Refusal To Give Prescription
  (a) A physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist may exclude categories of contact lenses from a contact lens prescription if the exclusion is clinically indicated. (b)...
• Texas Section 353.158 - Prohibited Action By Physician, Optometrist, Or Therapeutic Optometrist
  A physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist may not: (1) charge a patient a fee in addition to or as part of the examination fee and...

SUBCHAPTER E LIABILITY AND ENFORCEMENT

• Texas Section 353.159 - Waiver Or Disclaimer Of Liability Prohibited
  A contact lens prescription may not contain, and a physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist may not require a patient to sign, a form or notice...
• Texas Section 353.201 - Liability For Use Of Prescription
  A physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist is not liable for a patient's subsequent use of a contact lens prescription if: (1) the physician, optometrist, or...
• Texas Section 353.204 - Enforcement Proceedings
  (a) The appropriate regulatory agency, the attorney general, or the district or county attorney for the county in which an alleged violation of this chapter...
• Texas Section 353.206 - Civil Penalty
  In addition to granting injunctive or other relief provided by law, a court may impose a civil penalty for a violation of this chapter or...
• Texas Section 353.207 - Criminal Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person violates this chapter. (b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor. Acts 1999,...

Last modified: September 28, 2016