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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 327
BY SENATOR BROOME
HOSPITALS. Provides that hospitals offer certain immunizations to inpatients 65 years of
age or older. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 40:2023, relative to the availability of vaccines for the elderly; to provide for2
availability of certain immunizations for elderly inpatients; and to provide for related3
matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 40:2023 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง2023. Availability of immunizations recommended by the Centers for Disease7
Control and Prevention8
Beginning October 1, 2012, and each year thereafter, each general9
hospital licensed under this Chapter shall, during the period from October 110
through March 1 of the following calendar year, in accordance with the latest11
recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for12
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, offer the following13
immunizations to all inpatients sixty-five years of age and older, unless14
contraindicated for a patient and contingent upon the availability of the15
vaccine:16
(1) Immunization against influenza.17 SB NO. 327
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(2) Immunization against pneumococcal diseases.1
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Mary Dozier O'Brien.
DIGEST
Proposed law requires that, beginning October 1, 2012, and each year thereafter, all general
hospitals, during the time period from October 1 through the following March 1, offer
certain immunizations, as recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices of the CDC, to inpatients aged 65 or older.
Proposed law lists the following immunizations:
(1) Immunizations for influenza.
(2) Immunizations for pneumococcal diseases.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Adds R.S. 40:2023)