| TO: | Honorable Dianne White Delisi, Chair, House Committee on Public Health |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB532 by Dukes (Relating to requiring the Department of State Health Services to allow health care providers to use certain vaccines in the vaccines for children program.), As Introduced |
The bill would require the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to allow each health care provider participating in the Vaccines for Children program to select influenza vaccines from the list of all those approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and available under contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Additionally, DSHS would be required to allow these health care providers to use both trivalent influenza virus and live, attenuated influenza vaccines.
Currently, vaccine for the Vaccines for Children program is allocated to DSHS by the CDC.
Information is not available on how vaccine will be allocated in future years. It is assumed that the CDC's allocation would be sufficient to meet the requests of a majority of providers. If providers requested any type of vaccine in excess of the amount allocated by the CDC, DSHS would need to purchase additional vaccine with General Revenue Funds however, no significant fiscal impact is anticipated from purchase of additional vaccine.
| Source Agencies: | 537 State Health Services, Department of
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, CL, PP, LR
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