Bill Text: IN HB1067 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Immunizations by pharmacists.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-30 - Representatives Frizzell, Welch and Austin added as coauthors [HB1067 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2012-HB1067-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 25-26-13-31.2.
Synopsis: Immunizations by pharmacists. Adds pneumonia to the
immunizations that a pharmacist is allowed to administer to a group of
individuals under a drug order, under a prescription, or according to a
protocol approved by a physician if certain requirements are met.
Provides that if a physician uses a protocol, the protocol may apply
only to an individual (or group of individuals) who are: (1) at least nine
years of age but less than 18 years of age if the individual's parent or
guardian is present and consents to the immunization; or (2) at least 18
years of age. (Current law requires an individual given an
immunization by a pharmacist pursuant to a protocol to be at least 14
years of age). Requires a pharmacist or pharmacist's designee to
provide immunization data to the immunization data registry unless the
patient or the patient's parent or guardian completes a immunization
data exemption form.
Effective: July 1, 2012.
January 4, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Health.
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(b) A pharmacist may administer an immunization for influenza,
(1) The physician specifies in the drug order, prescription, or protocol the group of individuals to whom the immunization may be administered.
(2) The physician who writes the drug order, prescription, or protocol is licensed in Indiana and not employed by a pharmacy.
(3) The pharmacist who administers the immunization is responsible for notifying, not later than fourteen (14) days after the pharmacist administers the immunization, the physician who
authorized the immunization and the individual's primary care
physician that the individual received the immunization.
(4) If the physician uses a protocol, the protocol may apply only
to an individual or group of individuals who are at least:
(A) fourteen (14) nine (9) years of age but less than eighteen
(18) years of age, if the pharmacist receives the consent of a
parent or legal guardian, and the parent or legal guardian is
present at the time of immunization; or
(B) eighteen (18) years of age.
(c) If the state department of health or the department of homeland
security determines that an emergency exists, a pharmacist may
administer any immunization in accordance with:
(1) the requirements of subsection (b)(1) through (b)(3); and
(2) any instructions in the emergency determination.
(d) A pharmacist or pharmacist's designee shall provide
immunization data to the immunization data registry (IC 16-38-5)
in a manner prescribed by the state department of health unless:
(1) the patient; or
(2) the patient's parent or guardian, if the patient is less than
eighteen (18) years of age;
has completed and filed with the pharmacist or pharmacist's
designee a written immunization data exemption form, as provided
in IC 16-38-5-2.
