Tex. Occ. Code § 353.156 · Subchapter D. CONTACT LENS PRESCRIPTIONS
PATIENT ACCESS TO PRESCRIPTION; TIMING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist who performs an eye examination and fits a patient for contact lenses shall:
(1) prepare and give a contact lens prescription to the patient; and
(2) as directed by any person designated to act on behalf of the patient, provide the prescription or verify the prescription as provided by Section 353.1015.
(b) If the contact lens prescription results from an initial or annual eye examination, the physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist shall prepare and give the prescription to the patient at the time the physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist determines the parameters of the prescription.
(c) On receipt of a prescription request from a patient who did not receive an original contact lens prescription during an initial or annual eye examination, the physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist shall provide the patient with the prescription at any time during which the prescription is valid. Except as provided by Section 353.158(1), if the patient requests the physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist to deliver the prescription to the patient or to another person, the physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist may charge to the patient the cost of delivery.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 101 (H.B. 1025), Sec. 2.010, eff. September 1, 2005.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.353.htm
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