HB336 By Representative Weaver RFD Health Rd 1 25-FEB-16

SYNOPSIS: This bill would define over-the-counter spectacles or glasses and specify certain requirements for lenses. The sale of over-the-counter spectacles which do not conform with this definition would be unlawful. The bill would also provide for civil enforcement.

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT

To define over-the-counter spectacles and provide for certain requirements for lenses; to provide that the sale of over-the-counter spectacles which do not conform to the definition would be unlawful; and to provide for civil enforcement.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:

Section 1. (a) For the purposes of this act, over-the-counter spectacles means nonprescription, ready-to-wear magnifying spectacles or glasses that contain spherical convex lenses, uniform in each meridian, which are encased in eyeglass frames and intended to ameliorate the symptoms of presbyopia. The lenses in over-the-counter spectacles may not have a minus power (-) and may not exceed plus three diopters (+3.00).

(b) The sale of over-the-counter spectacles which do not conform to the definition in subsection (a) is unlawful.

(c) A violation of this act may be enforced by the Board of Optometry, a district attorney, or the Attorney General.

Section 2. This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.

Health

Eyeglasses

Over-the-counter Eyeglasses

Optometry, Alabama Board of

Medical Examiners, State Board of

Civil Procedure

Reading Glasses