Title: Contact Lens Prescription Verification Modernization Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Contact Lens Prescription Verification Modernization Act  This bill revises the requirements for the verification of prescriptions related to the purchase of contact lenses. Specifically, online sellers of prescription contact lenses must provide consumers with a method to transmit a digital copy of their prescriptions to such sellers. Online sellers also must encrypt protected health information they send by email.  Additionally, the bill prohibits any seller of prescription contact lenses from using telephone calls with an artificial or prerecorded voice (i.e., robocalls) to verify a consumer's prescription.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1784 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1784

   To amend the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act to modernize 
  verification of contact lens prescriptions, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 20, 2021

 Ms. Duckworth (for herself and Mr. Boozman) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act to modernize 
  verification of contact lens prescriptions, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Contact Lens Prescription 
Verification Modernization Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 4 of the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (15 U.S.C. 
7603) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
                subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and adjusting 
                the margins accordingly;
                    (B) by striking ``A seller may'' and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(1) Sellers generally.--A seller may''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraphs:
            ``(2) Online sellers.--An online seller of contact lenses 
        shall provide a method that enables an individual to 
        electronically transmit, in accordance with the HIPAA privacy 
        regulation (as defined in section 1180(b)(3) of the Social 
        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320d-9(b)(3))), a copy of a contact 
        lens prescription for such individual.
            ``(3) Encryption required.--Any protected health 
        information (as defined for purposes of the HIPAA privacy 
        regulation) that an online seller sends pursuant to this 
        section by email shall be encrypted.'';
            (2) in subsection (c)(6), by striking ``and telephone 
        number'' and inserting the following: ``, telephone number, and 
        email address''; and
            (3) in subsection (g), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting the following: ``, but does not include a call 
        made using an artificial or prerecorded voice.''.
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