H-1467

   Amend House File 891 as follows:
   1.  Page 75, after line 17 by inserting: 
<DIVISION ___
VACCINATIONS —— HEALTH CARE PROVIDER REQUIREMENTS

   Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  135.39E  Vaccinations —— health care provider requirements —— penalties.
   1.  For the purposes of this section:
   a.  “Health care provider” means any licensed health care professional, organization, or institution, whether public or private, including federal, state, and local departments, agencies, and instrumentalities, under whose authority a licensed or emergency use vaccine is administered.
   b.  “Health profession board” means a profession board designated pursuant to section 147.13.
   c.  “Vaccine injury table” means the vaccine injury table created and revised pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §300aa-14.
   2.  The department shall collaborate with each health profession board to ensure that a health care provider under the purview of the department or a health profession board is aware of and complies with the requirements of 42 U.S.C. §300aa-25 and 42 U.S.C. §300aa-26, including all of the following:
   a.  That, prior to the patient receiving the vaccine, the health care provider provides an adult patient, or the parent or legal representative of a minor patient, with a copy of the relevant federal vaccine information statement for the vaccine the patient is to receive and verbally informs the adult patient, or the parent or legal representative of a minor patient, of the existence of the federal food and drug administration vaccine adverse event reporting system and the national vaccine injury compensation program referenced in the statement, if the vaccine is included in the vaccine injury table.
   b.  That the health care provider records certain required information about the vaccine administered in the patient’s medical record or a permanent office log or file.
   c.  That the health care provider documents any adverse event following the vaccination that the patient experiences within eight weeks post-administration and that becomes known to the health care provider, submits the report to the federal food and drug administration vaccine adverse event reporting system, and provides the adult patient, or the parent or legal representative of a minor patient, with a copy of the report.
   3.  The health profession board for a health care provider may deny an applicant a license or suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a license, and may take other disciplinary action against a licensee based on the applicant or licensee having three or more verified failures to comply with the applicable health care provider requirements pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §300aa-25 and 42 U.S.C. §300aa-26.
   4.  A health care provider who violates a provision of 42 U.S.C. §300aa-25 or 42 U.S.C. §300aa-26, in addition to licensee disciplinary action pursuant to subsection 3, shall be subject to a fine, per violation, of a minimum amount of one thousand dollars, established by rule of the department or the respective health profession board, as applicable.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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SHIPLEY of Van Buren