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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 872
BY REPRESENTATIVE MILLS
PHARMACISTS: Allows pharmacists to administer influenza immunizations
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 37:1218, relative to the administration of influenza immunizations; to provide2
for allowable pharmacist services; to provide for conditions under which pharmacists3
may administer influenza immunizations; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 37:1218 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง1218. Administration of influenza immunization7
A pharmacist may administer an influenza immunization to any person seven8
years of age or older without a prescription or medical order contingent upon all of9
the following provisions:10
(1) The pharmacist shall administer influenza immunizations in conformance11
with the most current annual influenza vaccination administration protocol as set12
forth by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)13
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP).14
(2) The pharmacist shall report each influenza immunization to the Louisiana15
Office of Public Health Immunization Registry at the time of the immunization or16
as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.17
(3) The pharmacist shall report all adverse events he observes or which are18
reported to him to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), the19 HLS 10RS-1280 ORIGINAL
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cooperative program of the CDC and the United States Food and Drug1
Administration for vaccine safety, or its successor program.2
(4) The pharmacist shall maintain for at least two years a record of each3
influenza immunization administered.4
(5) The pharmacist shall obtain the appropriate credential to administer5
influenza immunizations from the board, as administratively defined, prior to6
administering any such immunization.7
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Mills HB No. 872
Abstract: Allows pharmacists to administer influenza immunizations to persons age seven
and up.
Proposed law allows pharmacists to administer influenza immunizations to persons age
seven and up if immunizations are: performed according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control
guidelines; reported to the state registry for immunizations; and recorded by the pharmacist
with the record maintained for two years.
Proposed law requires pharmacists to report all adverse effects observed to the appropriate
authority (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System - VAERS).
Proposed law provides that only pharmacists with the appropriate credential from the
Louisiana Board of Pharmacy to administer influenza immunizations may do so.
(Adds R.S. 37:1218)