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Senate Health & Welfare advances H.545 to full Senate after committee review of immunization authority
Summary
The Senate Health & Welfare Committee voted to advance H.545 (draft 2.1), which temporarily allows the state Commissioner of Health to recommend certain immunizations and ties some insurer coverage and pharmacy authority to those recommendations; the measure will be reported and go to the full Senate.
The Senate Health & Welfare Committee voted to advance H.545 (draft 2.1) to the full Senate after reviewing changes that would let the state Commissioner of Health issue recommendations for certain immunizations, and briefly shift some coverage and provider authorities away from a CDC-linked standard.
Legislative Council staff presented the bill and told the panel, "This is draft 2.1," and that it integrates prior Office of Professional Regulation amendments, including a change that "the really biggest change in this section is changing the definition of immunization to be recommended immunization, which means immunizations that are recommended by the Commissioner of Health instead of, like, for the CDC recommendations," according to Katie of the Legislative Council.
Under draft 2.1, sections 1 through 7 (and the bill's repeal…
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