I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2012 
To amend the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act to require contact 
lens sellers to provide a toll-free telephone number and a dedicated 
email address for the purpose of receiving communications from pre-
scribers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 24, 2007 
Mr. ROSS (for himself, Mr. WHITFIELD, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. HALL of Texas, 
Mrs. DRAKE, and Mr. ALLEN) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act 
to require contact lens sellers to provide a toll-free tele-
phone number and a dedicated email address for the 
purpose of receiving communications from prescribers. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Contact Lens Con-
sumer Health Protection Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. IMPROVED COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN SELLERS 
AND PRESCRIBERS. 
Section 4 of the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers 
Act (15 U.S.C. 7603) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(7) A toll-free telephone number and email ad-
dress for prescribers to call or email with questions 
relating to a verification request, as required under 
subsection (i).’’; 
(2) in subsection (d)(3), by adding at the end 
the following: ‘‘If a prescriber communicates a ques-
tion or concern to a seller through the toll-free tele-
phone service or dedicated email address required 
under subsection (i) before such 8-hour period has 
ended, the seller must obtain affirmative confirma-
tion of the accuracy of the prescription from the pre-
scriber 
before 
the 
prescription 
is 
considered 
verified.’’; 
(3) by redesignating subsection (e) through (g) 
as subsections (f) through (h), respectively; 
(4) by adding after subsection (d) the following: 
‘‘(e) PRESCRIBER PREFERRED METHOD OF COMMU-
NICATION.—A prescriber may provide written notification 
to a seller requesting that all requests for verification from 
that seller be communicated to that prescriber by that pre-
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scriber’s preferred method of communication. Such pre-
ferred method of communication may be by telephone, fac-
simile, or email, or by either of any 2 of those means of 
communication.’’; and 
(5) by inserting after subsection (h) (as so re-
designated), the following: 
‘‘(i) TELEPHONE SERVICE AND DEDICATED EMAIL 
ADDRESS.—A seller of contact lenses who requests 
verification of any contact lens prescription shall provide 
a toll-free telephone service operable during regular busi-
ness hours and a dedicated email address for the sole pur-
pose of responding to prescribers’ questions and concerns 
regarding verification requests. Such toll-free telephone 
service shall maintain a sufficient number of working tele-
phone lines to enable ready access by prescribers to the 
service.’’. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON OVERFILLING CONTACT LENS 
PRESCRIPTIONS. 
The Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (15 
U.S.C. 7601 et seq.) is further amended— 
(1) by redesignating section 8 through 12 as 
sections 9 through 13, respectively; 
(2) in section 10(a) (as so redesignated), by 
striking ‘‘section 8’’ and inserting ‘‘section 9’’; and 
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(3) by inserting after section 7 the following 
new section: 
‘‘SEC. 8. PROHIBITION ON OVERFILLING CONTACT LENS 
PRESCRIPTIONS. 
‘‘No contact lens prescription shall be overfilled by 
any seller of contact lenses.
A seller who provides more 
lenses than the prescription specifies, or who provides 
more lenses than the number of lenses required to fill a 
prescription for the period beginning on the date the pre-
scription is filled through its expiration date, shall be 
deemed to have overfilled the prescription.’’. 
SEC. 4. EXPANDED PENALTIES. 
Section 10(b) of the Fairness to Contact Lens Con-
sumers Act (15 U.S.C. 7608(b)) (as redesignated by sec-
tion 3) is amended by striking the period at the end and 
inserting ‘‘, except that fines imposed for a violation of 
section 4 of this Act may be in an amount up to $100,000 
per violation.’’ 
Æ 
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