Bill Text: IN HB1073 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Immunizations by pharmacists.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-18 - Representative Davisson added as coauthor [HB1073 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2011-HB1073-Introduced.html

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Introduced Version

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HOUSE BILL No. 1073

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected: IC 25-26-13-31.2.

Synopsis: Immunizations by pharmacists. Allows a pharmacist to administer an immunization using any vaccine recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 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. Allows a physician's immunization protocol to apply to minors who are at least nine years of age. (Current law allows the protocol to apply only to minors who are at least 14 years of age.)

Effective: July 1, 2011.

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Frizzell

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    January 5, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Health.

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Introduced

First Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2011)

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HOUSE BILL No. 1073

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    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 25-26-13-31.2; (11)IN1073.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 25-26-13-31.2, AS ADDED BY P.L.94-2007, SECTION 2, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011]: Sec. 31.2. (a) A pharmacist may administer an immunization to an individual under a drug order or prescription.
    (b) A pharmacist may administer an immunization for influenza using any vaccine recommended by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to a group of individuals under a drug order, under a prescription, or according to a protocol approved by a physician if the following requirements are met:
        (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.