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<dc:title>119 HR 4282 IH: Contact Lens Prescription Verification Modernization Act</dc:title>
<dc:publisher>U.S. House of Representatives</dc:publisher>
<dc:date>2025-07-02</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 4282</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20250702">July 2, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="G000568">Mr. Griffith</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HIF00">Committee on Energy and Commerce</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act to modernize verification of contact lens prescriptions, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body id="H50530804D2CB4768BB60E4A8ACA5324C" style="OLC"> 
<section id="H275F26E7F001407D818624361E91A313" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Contact Lens Prescription Verification Modernization Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section id="HFECFBCE661BF41B982292AB72309EC9E"><enum>2.</enum><header>Amendments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 4 of the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/7603">15 U.S.C. 7603</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HF13686C8C94642FFA8D0A20D9C1C86B2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text> <subparagraph id="H9561F9559C274669B5BF9C68D7BCADDE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H458BE75592144215872FE19961542AEF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by moving such redesignated subparagraphs 2 ems to the right;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H152B95200F69403F94CFEFD04B6BF391"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking <quote>A seller may</quote> and inserting <quote>(1) <header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Sellers generally.</header-in-text>—A seller may</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB09B39B40AAE4EF4801156084D007882"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3D10CEAE05454AAAA0F4D36409617DC2" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HB1A36F18806547C5B0EF4ED53A9D7430"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Online sellers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An online seller of contact lenses shall provide a method that enables an individual to electronically transmit, in accordance with HIPAA privacy regulation (as defined in section 1180(b)(3) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1320d-9">42 U.S.C. 1320d–9(b)(3)</external-xref>)), a copy of a contact lens prescription for such individual.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H33AD9F32631D4F978F92B60CF3567F3D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Encryption required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any protected health information (as defined for purposes of the HIPAA privacy regulation) that an online seller sends pursuant to this section by email shall be encrypted.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9FF41D5B84ED4C37B5AEC6A13EB3E1AA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c)(6), by striking <quote>and telephone number</quote> and inserting the following: <quote>, telephone number, and email address</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H1DA7FB4F6C8E4911B5C49A7699EEB434"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (g), by striking the period at the end and inserting the following: <quote>but does not include a call made using an artificial or prerecorded voice.</quote>.</text></paragraph></section> </legis-body></bill>

