Florida Senate - 2015                              CS for SB 792
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Health Policy; and Senator Bean
       
       
       
       
       
       588-02138A-15                                          2015792c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to pharmacy; amending s. 465.189,
    3         F.S.; authorizing a registered intern under the
    4         supervision of a pharmacist to administer specified
    5         vaccines to an adult; revising which vaccines may be
    6         administered by a pharmacist or a registered intern
    7         under the supervision of a pharmacist; requiring a
    8         one-to-one ratio for such supervision; requiring a
    9         registered intern seeking to administer vaccines to be
   10         certified to administer such vaccines and to complete
   11         a minimum amount of coursework; providing an effective
   12         date.
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   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Subsections (1) and (6) of section 465.189,
   17  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   18         465.189 Administration of vaccines and epinephrine
   19  autoinjection.—
   20         (1) In accordance with guidelines of the Centers for
   21  Disease Control and Prevention for each recommended immunization
   22  or vaccine, a pharmacist who is certified under subsection (6),
   23  or a registered intern who is under the supervision of a
   24  pharmacist, if both the pharmacist and the registered intern are
   25  certified under subsection (6), may administer the following
   26  vaccines to an adult within the framework of an established
   27  protocol under a supervising physician licensed under chapter
   28  458 or chapter 459:
   29         (a) Immunizations or vaccines listed in the recommended
   30  adult immunization schedule as of February 2015 by the United
   31  States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The board may
   32  authorize, by rule, additional immunizations or vaccines as they
   33  are added to the adult immunization schedule Influenza vaccine.
   34         (b) Immunizations or vaccines recommended by the United
   35  States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for
   36  international travel as of July 1, 2015. The board may
   37  authorize, by rule, additional immunizations or vaccines as they
   38  are recommended by the United States Centers for Disease Control
   39  and Prevention for international travel Pneumococcal vaccine.
   40         (c) Immunizations or vaccines approved by the board in
   41  response to a state of emergency declared by the Governor
   42  pursuant to s. 252.36 Meningococcal vaccine.
   43         (d) Shingles vaccine.
   44  When a registered intern administers an immunization under this
   45  subsection, the registered intern must be supervised by a
   46  pharmacist at a ratio of one pharmacist to one registered
   47  intern.
   48         (6) Any pharmacist or registered intern seeking to
   49  administer vaccines to adults under this section must be
   50  certified to administer such vaccines pursuant to a
   51  certification program approved by the Board of Pharmacy in
   52  consultation with the Board of Medicine and the Board of
   53  Osteopathic Medicine. The certification program shall, at a
   54  minimum, require that the pharmacist attend at least 20 hours of
   55  continuing education classes approved by the board and that the
   56  registered intern complete at least 20 hours of coursework
   57  approved by the board. The program shall have a curriculum of
   58  instruction concerning the safe and effective administration of
   59  such vaccines, including, but not limited to, potential allergic
   60  reactions to such vaccines.
   61         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.