Bill > A5229

Introduced Session

This bill permits paramedics to administer vaccines during outbreaks of communicable diseases. Under the bill, during an outbreak of a communicable disease occurring among the general public in any area of the State, all paramedics in the State are to be authorized to administer any available vaccine that the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends to prevent against that communicable disease, which vaccine may be administered by a paramedic to any patient, regardless of the patient's age, unless age restrictions have been recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. A mobile intensive care paramedic is to comply with any other restrictions or guidance concerning the vaccine as have been issued by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or the Department of Health. A vaccine administered pursuant to the bill's provisions may be administered pursuant to an individual prescription for the vaccine, a standing order for the vaccine issued by an authorized prescriber, or an immunization program or other program sponsored by an authorized governmental agency that is not patient specific.

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Bob Auth (R)*,  Serena DiMaso (R)*,  Anthony Verrelli (D)*,  John Catalano (R),  Annette Chaparro (D),  Kevin Rooney (R), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Human Services Committee (on 01/11/2021)