What's happening
This bill allows pharmacists to administer hepatitis A and B vaccines in addition to other specified immunizations.
Why it matters
Expands access to hepatitis A and B vaccines by allowing pharmacists to administer them. , making it easier for adults to receive these immunizations without needing a doctor’s appointment or clinic visit.
Helps address gaps in public health and outbreak response. by empowering pharmacists—who are often more accessible than primary care providers—to provide protection against hepatitis A and B, both of which are preventable but can cause serious illness.
May reduce healthcare costs and burdens. by preventing disease through more convenient immunization, potentially lowering the incidence of hepatitis-related hospitalizations and complications.
Aligns pharmacist immunization authority with evolving public health practice. , acknowledging pharmacists’ role as frontline healthcare providers and potentially setting a precedent for expanding their scope regarding other vaccines in the future.
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Let Pharmacists Give Hepatitis Shots
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- Referred to higher education
- Referred to higher education
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Let Pharmacists Give Hepatitis Shots
In Senate Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Brad Hoylman-Sigal
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STATE OF NEW YORK
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to pharmacist immunizations
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, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal, tetanus, diphtheria or pertussis disease and medications required for emergency treatment of anaphylaxis. 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 section 2 of part DD of chapter 57 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
22. "Administer", for the purpose of section sixty-eight hundred one of this article, means:
a. the direct application of an immunizing agent to adults, whether by injection, ingestion, inhalation 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, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal, tetanus, diphtheria or pertussis disease and medications required for emergency
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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treatment of anaphylaxis. 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.
b. the direct application of an immunizing agent to children between the ages of two and eighteen years of age, whether by injection, ingestion, inhalation 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 immunization to prevent influenza and medications required for emergency treatment of anaphylaxis resulting from such immunization. If the commissioner of health determines that there is an outbreak of influenza, or that there is the imminent threat of an outbreak of influenza, 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, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal, tetanus, diphtheria or pertussis disease and medications required for emergency treatment of anaphylaxis. Nothing in this subdivision shall authorize unlicensed persons to administer immunizations, vaccines or other drugs.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, 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 expiration of such subdivision and shall be deemed to expire therewith;
(b) the amendments to subdivision 22 of section 6802 of the education law made by section two of this act shall not affect the expiration of such subdivision pursuant to section 8 of chapter 563 of the laws of 2008, as amended, and shall be deemed repealed therewith; and
(c) the amendments to subdivision 7 of section 6909 of the education law, made by section three of this act shall not affect the expiration of such subdivision and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
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