Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 374

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Relating to: selling and fitting over-the-counter hearing aids.

Deaf and hearing impaired Hearing instrument specialist

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Assembly, not reached
Passes Senate, not reached
Governor signs, not reached
Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, no person may engage in the practice of selling or fitting

hearing aids unless he or she holds a license as a hearing instrument specialist

issued by the Department of Safety and Professional Services or a license as an

audiologist issued by the Hearing and Speech Examining Board. This bill provides

that no license is required to sell or fit an over-the-counter hearing aid, as defined

under federal law. Under federal law, air-conduction hearing aids may be sold over

the counter without a prescription under certain circumstances.

Further, under current law, a hearing instrument specialist who engages in the

practice of selling or fitting hearing aids must deliver to each person supplied with

a hearing aid a receipt that contains certain information. The bill provides that a

hearing instrument specialist is not required to deliver a receipt to a person supplied

with a hearing aid if the hearing aid is an over-the-counter hearing aid, as defined

under federal law.

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Sep 27, 2023 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform, Ayes 9, Noes 0