Legislation (SB 1100) effectively banning consumer access to online vision testing failed to get a hearing in the Missouri legislature during the 2018 legislative session. If enacted, this legislation would have created an artificial government-protected marketplace that required consumers to go into an optometrist office for a vision check to renew a prescription every year. It would have raised costs for patients, decreased access to care and removed a convenient, safe and effective eye health tool from the Missouri marketplace.