HLS 16RS-953 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 468
BY REPRESENTATIVE CROMER
PUBLIC HEALTH: Requires adult residential care providers to disseminate educational
information on influenza
1 AN ACT
2To enact R.S. 40:2166.9, relative to adult residential care providers; to require adult
3 residential care providers to disseminate educational information on influenza; to
4 establish the minimum content of the information; to provide for interpretations; and
5 to provide for related matters.
6Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 40:2166.9 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 ยง2166.9. Immunization information; influenza
9 A. No later than September first of each year and in accordance with the
10 latest recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of
11 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every licensed adult residential care
12 provider shall provide residents educational information on influenza. This
13 educational information shall include, at a minimum, the risks associated with
14 influenza, the availability, effectiveness, and known contraindications of the
15 influenza immunization, the causes and symptoms of influenza, and the means by
16 which influenza is spread.
17 B. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require any adult residential
18 care provider to provide or pay for any immunization against influenza.
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are additions. HLS 16RS-953 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 468
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)]
HB 468 Original 2016 Regular Session Cromer
Abstract: Requires adult residential care providers to disseminate to residents educational
information on influenza.
Proposed law requires adult residential care providers to provide educational information on
influenza no later than Sept. 1 of each year and in accordance with the latest
recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
Proposed law requires the educational information to include, at a minimum, all of the
following:
(1)The risks associated with influenza.
(2)The availability, effectiveness, and known contraindications of the influenza
immunization.
(3)The causes and symptoms of influenza.
(4)The means by which influenza is spread.
Proposed law shall not be construed to require any adult residential care provider to provide
or pay for any immunization against influenza.
(Adds R.S. 40:2166.9)
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