Florida Senate - 2021                                     SB 494
       
       
        
       By Senator Burgess
       
       
       
       
       
       20-00864-21                                            2021494__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to administration of vaccines;
    3         amending s. 465.189, F.S.; revising the specified
    4         vaccines that certain pharmacists and registered
    5         interns under certain supervision may administer to
    6         adults; providing an effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 465.189, Florida
   11  Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         465.189 Administration of vaccines and epinephrine
   13  autoinjection.—
   14         (1) In accordance with guidelines of the Centers for
   15  Disease Control and Prevention for each recommended immunization
   16  or vaccine, a pharmacist, or a registered intern under the
   17  supervision of a pharmacist who is certified under subsection
   18  (6), may administer the following vaccines to an adult within
   19  the framework of an established protocol under a supervising
   20  physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459:
   21         (a) Immunizations or vaccines listed in the Adult
   22  Immunization Schedule as of February 1, 2015, by the United
   23  States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The board may
   24  authorize, by rule, additional immunizations or vaccines as they
   25  are added to the Adult Immunization Schedule.
   26         (b) Immunizations or vaccines recommended by the Centers
   27  for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on
   28  Immunization Practices.
   29         (c) Immunizations or vaccines recommended by the United
   30  States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for
   31  international travel as of July 1, 2015. The board may
   32  authorize, by rule, additional immunizations or vaccines as they
   33  are recommended by the United States Centers for Disease Control
   34  and Prevention for international travel.
   35         (d)(c) Immunizations or vaccines approved by the board in
   36  response to a state of emergency declared by the Governor
   37  pursuant to s. 252.36.
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   39  A registered intern who administers an immunization or vaccine
   40  under this subsection must be supervised by a certified
   41  pharmacist at a ratio of one pharmacist to one registered
   42  intern.
   43         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.