Committee approves strike‑all amendment to H.534, adds new immunization rules and six‑year sunset

A legislative committee approved a strike‑all amendment, version 2.1, to H.534 that replaces most of the bill with new language covering recommended immunizations, advisory‑council membership and duties, pharmacy authority, and a six‑year sunset that would restore current law on July 1, 2031.

Katie, the committee drafter, told members the staff "struck out the whole bill and put it in again" to accommodate the committee's choices and to show both the immediate changes and the text that would be restored at the sunset date. She said sections 1–3 reproduce the introduced bill’s statutory text while the substantive updates are in later sections, including a new requirement that each designated Community Action Agency perform a needs assessment every three years and incorporate that assessment into an annual Community Action Plan that "shall include a schedule for the anticipated provision of new or ongoing services and shall specify the resources that are needed by and available to the agency to implement the plan." (Katie)

The amendment changes how the law refers to vaccines. For the period from passage through…