HB402 Alabama 2022 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Joe Lovvorn RepresentativeRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2022
- Title
- Pharmacists, authorized to prescribe vaccines and immunizations allowed to administer, required to recommend annual well-child visits for certain children administered a vaccine or immunization, Sec. 34-23-13 added.
- Description
Under existing law, a pharmacist licensed by the Alabama State Board of Pharmacy may administer vaccines and immunizations.
This bill would clarify that a licensed pharmacist is authorized to prescribe vaccines or immunizations that he or she is otherwise authorized to administer by law.
This bill would also require a pharmacist who administers a vaccine or immunization to a child under nine years of age to recommend annual well-child visits with a pediatrician to that child and his or her caregiver.
- Subjects
- Pharmacies and Pharmacists
Bill Actions
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health
Bill Text
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature