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2023 SESSION

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HB 1833 Over-the-counter and prescription hearing aids; licensure not required by certain corporations, etc.

Introduced by: Wendell S. Walker | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; over-the-counter and prescription hearing aids. Clarifies that licensure by the Board for Hearing Aid Specialists and Opticians is not required for a corporation, partnership, trust, association, or other like organization engaged in the business of selling prescription hearing aids, defined in the bill as a hearing aid that is not an over-the-counter hearing aid, provided that it employs only licensed practitioners in the direct sale and fitting of prescription hearing aids. This bill is identical to SB 1279.

FULL TEXT

• 01/10/23  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104156D  pdf | impact statement
• 02/03/23  House: Printed as engrossed 23104156D-E  pdf
• 02/23/23  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1833ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 03/22/23  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
• House amendments adopted

HISTORY

• 01/10/23  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104156D
• 01/10/23  House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
• 01/19/23  House: Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3
• 01/26/23  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (4-Y 0-N)
• 01/31/23  House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N)
• 02/02/23  House: Read first time
• 02/03/23  House: Read second time
• 02/03/23  House: Committee amendment agreed to
• 02/03/23  House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1833E
• 02/03/23  House: Printed as engrossed 23104156D-E
• 02/06/23  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
• 02/06/23  House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 02/07/23  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/07/23  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 02/16/23  Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
• 02/17/23  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 02/20/23  Senate: Read third time
• 02/20/23  Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/23/23  House: Enrolled
• 02/23/23  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1833ER)
• 02/23/23  House: Signed by Speaker
• 02/25/23  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/02/23  House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
• 03/02/23  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
• 03/22/23  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 273 (effective 7/1/23)
• 03/22/23  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273)