HB1201 (2008) Detail

(New Title) allowing communities to conduct point of dispensing exercises to test emergency management operations plans, allowing qualified health professionals to prescribe and administer flu vaccine during such exercises, and granting immunity to such qualified health professionals.


HB 1201 – AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

13Feb2008… 0302h

2008 SESSION

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09/04

HOUSE BILL 1201

AN ACT allowing communities to conduct point of dispensing exercises to test emergency management operations plans, allowing qualified health professionals to prescribe and administer flu vaccine during such exercises, and granting immunity to such qualified health professionals.

SPONSORS: Rep. L. Ober, Hills 27

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill allows communities to conduct point of dispensing exercises to test emergency management operations plans, allows qualified health professionals to administer flu vaccine during such exercises, and grants immunity to such qualified health professionals.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

13Feb2008… 0302h

08-2222

09/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight

AN ACT allowing communities to conduct point of dispensing exercises to test emergency management operations plans, allowing qualified health professionals to prescribe and administer flu vaccine during such exercises, and granting immunity to such qualified health professionals.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Section; Local Point of Dispensing Exercises. Amend RSA 21-P by inserting after section 39 the following new section:

21-P:39-a Local Point of Dispensing Exercises. A political subdivision may, under specific training guidelines established by its local organization for emergency management, conduct point of dispensing exercises, including operational vaccination clinic drills, for the purpose of testing emergency management operations plans. Qualified health professionals designated by the local organization for emergency management may prescribe and administer flu vaccine during such exercises and shall be deemed authorized emergency management workers under the immunity and exemption provisions of RSA 21-P:41 during such exercises.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.