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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to requiring the Department of State Health Services to |
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allow health care providers to use certain vaccines in the vaccines |
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for children program. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 161, Health and Safety |
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Code, is amended by adding Section 161.0102 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 161.0102. VACCINES FOR CHILDREN PROGRAM. (a) In this |
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section, "vaccines for children program" means the program operated |
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by the department under authority of 42 U.S.C. Section 1396s, as |
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amended. |
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(b) The department shall allow each health care provider |
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participating in the vaccines for children program to select |
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vaccines from the list of all vaccines that are: |
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(1) approved by the United States Food and Drug |
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Administration; |
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(2) recommended by the federal Advisory Committee on |
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Immunization Practices; and |
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(3) made available under contract with the Centers for |
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Disease Control of the United States Public Health Service. |
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(c) The department shall provide a vaccine selected by a |
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health care provider under Subsection (b) only if the cost to the |
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department of providing the vaccine is not more than 110 percent of |
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the lowest priced equivalent vaccine. |
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(d) This section shall apply only to vaccines which are |
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available from more than one manufacturer. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007. |