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2023 SESSION
SB 1279 Over-the-counter and prescription hearing aids; licensure not required by certain corporations, etc.
Introduced by: Jennifer B. Boysko | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (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 HB 1833.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104205D pdf | impact statement
- 01/30/23 Senate: Printed as engrossed 23104205D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1279ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/22/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104205D
- 01/10/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/19/23 Senate: Rereferred from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/23 Senate: Rereferred to General Laws and Technology
- 01/25/23 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/23 Senate: Read second time
- 01/30/23 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 01/30/23 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/30/23 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1279E
- 01/30/23 Senate: Printed as engrossed 23104205D-E
- 01/31/23 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/23 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/10/23 House: Read first time
- 02/10/23 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 02/14/23 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/23 House: Read second time
- 02/17/23 House: Read third time
- 02/17/23 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/23 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/23 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/22/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1279ER)
- 02/22/23 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/23 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/02/23 Senate: 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 274 (effective 7/1/23)
- 03/22/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274)