HOUSE FILE _____

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON HAGENOW)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to advertisements for the sale of hearing aids.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  Section 154A.24, subsection 3, paragraph s, Code 2011, is amended by striking the paragraph.
EXPLANATION
   This bill strikes one of the causes for which the hearing aid dispensers licensing board may revoke or suspend a dispenser’s license. Failure to place in hearing aid advertisements certain key words such as “hearing test” or “hearing measurement”, if the licensee’s business name does not include the words “hearing aid”, would no longer be a cause for revocation or suspension of a license.