AOA Supports Senate Bill on Contact Lenses

AOA and COA are seeking U.S. senator co-sponsors for the recently introduced S. 2777, The Contact Lens Consumer Health Protection Act. The measure would crack down on Internet-based contact lens sellers that are placing contact lens wearers at risk by selling without proper verification of prescriptions, by overfilling orders, filling orders with expired prescriptions or with lenses other than those that were prescribed. Doctors are asked to take a few moments to urge California Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein’s co-sponsorship of S. 2777. Visit the AOA’s Online Legislative Action Center and select, “Take Action” under the heading, “Protect Patients from Harmful and Costly Contact Lens Seller Abuses: Co-Sponsors Needed for S. 2777,” to send our U.S. senators an electronic message asking them to help enact common-sense change to contact lens regulations. 

The Washington Examiner recently reported that a group of retailers it deemed “Big Contacts,” joined forces to voice their opposition to the measure. The group included Lens.com, 1-800 Contacts and Costco. The retailers say the bill would hurt their businesses.