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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 600
BY SENATOR MILLS
HEALTH SERVICES. Provides relative to immunizations. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 37:1218.1, relative to immunizations and vaccines; to provide2
for the administering of immunizations and vaccines other than influenza3
immunizations by a pharmacist; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 37:1218.1 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง1218.1. Administration of certain immunizations in primary care health7
professional shortage areas and vaccines other than influenza8
immunizations9
A. In any parish designated wholly or in part as a primary care health10
professional shortage area as set forth under Section 332 of the Public Health Service11
Act, as determined by the United States Department of Health and Human Services,12
a pharmacist may administer any of the following vaccines, but only in conformance13
with the provisions of Subsection B of this Section:14
(1) Pneumococcal, to any person eighteen years of age or older.15
(2) Zoster, to any person fifty years of age or older.16
B. The pharmacist shall administer each immunization in conformance with17 SB NO. 600
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the most current vaccination administration as set forth by the United States Public1
Health Service Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, following guidance2
published in the Louisiana State Immunization Policies and Procedures Manual, to3
participate in the program and to be covered by the National Vaccine Injury4
Compensation Fund.5
A. A pharmacist may administer to an individual age fourteen or older6
an immunization or a vaccine without a patient specific prescription or medical7
order if the immunization or the vaccine is administered in conformance with8
the most current immunization administration protocol as set forth by the9
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee10
on Immunization Practice.11
(1) The pharmacist shall report each immunization to the Department of12
Health and Hospitals, office of public health's Louisiana Immunization Network for13
Kids Statewide at the time of the immunization or as soon as reasonably practicable14
thereafter, as this is the official state vaccination record.15
(2) The pharmacist shall report all adverse events he observes or which are16
reported to him to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, the cooperative17
program of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the18
United States Food and Drug Administration for vaccine safety, or its successor19
program; and further, the pharmacist shall refer the patient with an adverse event to20
an immunization for appropriate medical care.21
(3) The pharmacist shall maintain for at least two years a record of each22
immunization administered.23
(4) The pharmacist shall obtain the appropriate credentials to administer24
immunizations from the board, as administratively defined, prior to administering25
any such immunization.26
(5) The pharmacist shall request the name of a patient's primary care provider27
prior to the administering of any immunization. If the patient identifies such primary28
care provider to the pharmacist, the pharmacist shall notify the primary care29 SB NO. 600
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provider, by written or electronic communication, as soon as reasonably possible1
thereafter that the immunization was administered.2
B. This Section shall not apply to the administering of an immunization3
pursuant to R.S. 37:1218.4
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christopher D. Adams.
DIGEST
Mills (SB 600)
Present law provides in any parish designated wholly or in part as a primary care health
professional shortage area as set forth under federal regulations, a pharmacist may
administer any of the following vaccines, but only in conformance with the present law:
(1) Pneumococcal, to any person eighteen years of age or older.
(2) Zoster, to any person fifty years of age or older.
Present law provides the pharmacist shall administer each immunization in conformance
with the most current vaccination administration as set forth by the United States Public
Health Service Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, following guidance
published in the Louisiana State Immunization Policies and Procedures Manual, to
participate in the program and to be covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation
Fund.
(1) The pharmacist shall report each immunization to the Department of Health and
Hospitals, office of public health's Louisiana Immunization Network for Kids
Statewide at the time of the immunization or as soon as reasonably practicable
thereafter, as this is the official state vaccination record.
(2) The pharmacist shall report all adverse events he observes or which are reported to
him to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, the cooperative program of
the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States
Food and Drug Administration for vaccine safety, or its successor program; and
further, the pharmacist shall refer the patient with an adverse event to an
immunization for appropriate medical care.
(3) The pharmacist shall maintain for at least two years a record of each immunization
administered.
(4) The pharmacist shall obtain the appropriate credentials to administer immunizations
from the board, as administratively defined, prior to administering any such
immunization.
(5) The pharmacist shall request the name of a patient's primary care provider prior to
the administering of any immunization. If the patient identifies such primary care
provider to the pharmacist, the pharmacist shall notify the primary care provider, by
written or electronic communication, as soon as reasonably possible thereafter that
the immunization was administered.
Proposed law amends present law to provide a pharmacist may administer to an individual
age 14 or older an immunization or a vaccine without a patient specific prescription or
medical order if the immunization or the vaccine is administered in conformance with the SB NO. 600
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most current immunization administration protocol as set forth by the United States Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice.
(1) The pharmacist shall report each immunization to the Department of Health and
Hospitals, office of public health's Louisiana Immunization Network for Kids
Statewide at the time of the immunization or as soon as reasonably practicable
thereafter, as this is the official state vaccination record.
(2) The pharmacist shall report all adverse events he observes or which are reported to
him to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, the cooperative program of
the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States
Food and Drug Administration for vaccine safety, or its successor program; and
further, the pharmacist shall refer the patient with an adverse event to an
immunization for appropriate medical care.
(3) The pharmacist shall maintain for at least two years a record of each immunization
administered.
(4) The pharmacist shall obtain the appropriate credentials to administer immunizations
from the board, as administratively defined, prior to administering any such
immunization.
(5) The pharmacist shall request the name of a patient's primary care provider prior to
the administering of any immunization. If the patient identifies such primary care
provider to the pharmacist, the pharmacist shall notify the primary care provider, by
written or electronic communication, as soon as reasonably possible thereafter that
the immunization was administered.
Proposed law does not apply to the administering of an immunization pursuant to R.S.
37:1218.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 37:1218.1)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Health and Welfare to
the original bill
1. Changes providing an immunization or vaccine by a pharmacist from
applying to any individual to applying to an individual age fourteen or older.