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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 | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

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.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

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.