What's happening
This bill expands pharmacist and nurse practitioner authority to administer all CDC-recommended adult vaccines and makes these provisions permanent.
Why it matters
Expanding vaccine access at pharmacies and clinics means adults will have more convenient, walk-in options for a broader range of CDC-recommended vaccines—not just flu or shingles, but also vaccines like HPV, hepatitis, and MMR—potentially improving public health and immunization rates.
By making these expanded authorities permanent (removing the sunset/expiration dates), the bill provides long-term stability for pharmacies and nurse practitioners to invest in vaccine services, training, and outreach, rather than facing uncertainty every few years.
Allowing pharmacists and nurse practitioners to administer all CDC-recommended adult vaccines can help reach populations with limited access to traditional healthcare, addressing disparities in preventive care and helping control outbreaks or emerging infectious diseases.
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Let Pharmacists Give Vaccines
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- Referred to higher education
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STATE OF NEW YORK
455
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, DINOWITZ, SCHIMMINGER, CROUCH, WALTER, FAHY, HEVESI, STECK, WEPRIN, LUPARDO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LUPINACCI, MAGEE, RA, SIMON, THIELE, WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to pharmacist immunizations; to amend chapter 563 of the laws of 2008, amending the education law and the public health law relating to immunizing agents to be administered to adults by pharmacists, in relation to making certain provisions permanent; and to amend chapter 116 of the laws of 2012, amending the education law relating to authorizing a licensed pharmacist and certified nurse practitioner to administer certain immunizing agents, in relation to making certain provisions permanent
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 6527 of the education law, as amended by chapter 46 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
7. A licensed physician may prescribe and order a patient specific order or non-patient specific regimen to a licensed pharmacist, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the commissioner, and consistent with the public health law, for administering immunizations [to prevent influenza, pneumococcal, acute herpes zoster, meningococcal, tetanus, diphtheria or pertussis disease and medications required for emergency treatment of anaphylaxis] and vaccines listed in the recommended adult immunization schedule by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nothing in this subdivision shall authorize unlicensed persons to administer immunizations, vaccines or other drugs.
§ 2. Subdivision 22 of section 6802 of the education law, as amended by chapter 46 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
22. "Administer", for the purpose of section sixty-eight hundred one of this article, means the direct application of an immunizing agent to
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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adults, whether by injection, ingestion or any other means, pursuant to a patient specific order or non-patient specific regimen prescribed or ordered by a physician or certified nurse practitioner, [who has a practice site in the county or adjoining county in which the immunization is administered,] for immunizations [to prevent influenza, pneumococcal, acute herpes zoster, meningococcal, tetanus, diphtheria or pertussis disease and medications required for emergency treatment of anaphylaxis] and vaccines listed in the recommended adult immunization schedule by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If the commissioner of health determines that there is an outbreak of disease, or that there is the imminent threat of an outbreak of disease, then the commissioner of health may issue a non-patient specific regimen applicable statewide.
§ 3. Subdivision 7 of section 6909 of the education law, as amended by chapter 46 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
7. A certified nurse practitioner may prescribe and order a patient specific order or non-patient specific regimen to a licensed pharmacist, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the commissioner, and consistent with the public health law, for administering immunizations [to prevent influenza, pneumococcal, acute herpes zoster, meningococcal, tetanus, diphtheria or pertussis disease and medications required for emergency treatment of anaphylaxis] and vaccines listed in the recommended adult immunization schedule by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nothing in this subdivision shall authorize unlicensed persons to administer immunizations, vaccines or other drugs.
§ 4. Section 8 of chapter 563 of the laws of 2008, amending the education law and the public health law relating to immunizing agents to be administered to adults by pharmacists, as amended by chapter 46 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
§ 8. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law [and shall expire and be deemed repealed July 1, 2019].
§ 5. Section 5 of chapter 116 of the laws of 2012, amending the education law relating to authorizing a licensed pharmacist and certified nurse practitioner to administer certain immunizing agents, as amended by chapter 46 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
§ 5. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law [and shall expire and be deemed repealed July 1, 2019 provided, that:
(a) the amendments to subdivision 7 of section 6527 of the education law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such subdivision and shall be deemed to be repealed therewith;
(b) the amendments to subdivision 7 of section 6909 of the education law, made by section two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such subdivision and shall be deemed to be repealed therewith;
(c) the amendments to subdivision 22 of section 6802 of the education law made by section three of this act shall not affect the repeal of such subdivision and shall be deemed to be repealed therewith; and
(d) the amendments to section 6801 of the education law made by section four of this act shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith].
§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately.
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