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2023 SESSION
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)