Tex. Occ. Code § 353.155 · Subchapter D. CONTACT LENS PRESCRIPTIONS
EXTENSION OF PRESCRIPTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist may extend the expiration date for a contact lens prescription without completing another eye examination.
(b) On request by a patient, a prescribing physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist shall authorize at least once a two-month extension of the patient's contact lens prescription. The physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist may extend the prescription in accordance with Section 353.104.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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