Florida Senate - 2021 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 768
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
03/30/2021 .
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The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Baxley)
recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
4 and insert:
5 Section 1. Present subsections (2) through (8) of section
6 465.189, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (3)
7 through (9), respectively, a new subsection (2) is added to that
8 section, and subsection (1) and present subsection (6) are
9 amended, to read:
10 465.189 Administration of vaccines and epinephrine
11 autoinjection.—
12 (1) In accordance with guidelines of the Centers for
13 Disease Control and Prevention for each recommended immunization
14 or vaccine, a pharmacist, or a registered intern under the
15 supervision of a pharmacist who is certified under subsection
16 (7)(6), may administer the following immunizations or vaccines
17 to an adult within the framework of an established protocol
18 under a supervising physician licensed under chapter 458 or
19 chapter 459:
20 (a) Immunizations or vaccines listed in the Adult
21 Immunization Schedule as of February 1, 2015, by the United
22 States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Recommended
23 Immunization Schedule, the United States Centers for Disease
24 Control and Prevention’s Health Information for International
25 Travel, or the United States Food and Drug Administration’s
26 Vaccines Licensed for Use in the United States or vaccines
27 authorized for emergency use by the United States Food and Drug
28 Administration Prevention. The board may authorize, by rule,
29 additional immunizations or vaccines as they are added to the
30 United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
31 Recommended Immunization Schedule, the United States Centers for
32 Disease Control and Prevention’s Health Information for
33 International Travel, or the United States Food and Drug
34 Administration’s Vaccines Licensed for Use in the United States
35 or additional vaccines authorized for emergency use by the
36 United States Food and Drug Administration Adult Immunization
37 Schedule.
38 (b) Immunizations or vaccines recommended by the United
39 States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for
40 international travel as of July 1, 2015. The board may
41 authorize, by rule, additional immunizations or vaccines as they
42 are recommended by the United States Centers for Disease Control
43 and Prevention for international travel.
44 (c) Immunizations or vaccines approved by the board in
45 response to a state of emergency declared by the Governor
46 pursuant to s. 252.36.
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48 A registered intern who administers an immunization or vaccine
49 under this subsection must be supervised by a certified
50 pharmacist at a ratio of one pharmacist to one registered
51 intern.
52 (2) A pharmacist who is certified under subsection (7) may
53 administer influenza vaccines to individuals 7 years of age or
54 older within the framework of an established protocol under a
55 supervising physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459.
56 (7)(6) Any pharmacist or registered intern seeking to
57 administer vaccines to adults under this section must be
58 certified to administer such vaccines pursuant to a
59 certification program approved by the Board of Pharmacy in
60 consultation with the Board of Medicine and the Board of
61 Osteopathic Medicine. The certification program shall, at a
62 minimum, require that the pharmacist attend at least 20 hours of
63 continuing education classes approved by the board and the
64 registered intern complete at least 20 hours of coursework
65 approved by the board. The program shall have a curriculum of
66 instruction concerning the safe and effective administration of
67 such vaccines, including, but not limited to, potential allergic
68 reactions to such vaccines.
69 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.
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72 And the title is amended as follows:
73 Delete everything before the enacting clause
74 and insert:
75 A bill to be entitled
76 An act relating to the administration of vaccines;
77 amending s. 465.189, F.S.; revising the specified
78 immunizations or vaccines that certified pharmacists
79 and registered interns may administer to adults;
80 authorizing certain pharmacists to administer
81 influenza vaccines to individuals 7 years of age or
82 older under certain circumstances; providing an
83 effective date.