Sec. 351.352.  OPTOMETRIC FILES AND RECORDS.  (a)  All prescription files, patient records, and business records of an optometric practice are the sole property of the optometrist or therapeutic optometrist.
(b)  A patient may obtain a copy of the patient's optometric records, or may have the records forwarded to another doctor, by making a signed, written request to the optometrist or therapeutic optometrist for the records.
(c)  An optometrist or therapeutic optometrist may charge a reasonable processing fee for providing optometric records to a patient.  The optometrist or therapeutic optometrist may provide the records in summary form unless the patient specifically requests otherwise.
(d)  This section does not affect a patient's right of access to the patient's contact lens prescription under Chapter 353.
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.