Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (199526) for SB 242
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/15/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Justice)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 52 - 85
    4  and insert:
    5         (b) Have the child’s parent, legal guardian, authorized
    6  person, or other legal representative sign a statement in
    7  substantially the following form:
    8  
    9  I have received a copy of the vaccine information statement
   10  published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I
   11  have read or have had explained to me information about the
   12  vaccine to be administered, the benefits and risks of the
   13  vaccine, how to report an adverse reaction, the availability of
   14  the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, and how to
   15  obtain more information about childhood diseases and vaccines. I
   16  understand the benefits of the vaccine and ask that the vaccine
   17  be administered to ...(name of child)..., for whom I am
   18  authorized to make this request.
   19         Signature: ...(signature)....
   20         Name: ...(printed name of parent, legal guardian,
   21         authorized person, or other legal representative)....
   22         Date: ...(date)....
   23  
   24         (c) Keep a copy of the parent’s, legal guardian’s,
   25  authorized person’s, or legal representative’s signed statement
   26  as part of the child’s permanent medical record.
   27         (d) Record a notation on the statement of the lot number or
   28  on a permanent office log for each vaccine administered to the
   29  child.
   30  
   31  This subsection applies to each vaccine information statement
   32  published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
   33  whether or not the statement is covered by the federal National
   34  Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, 42 U.S.C. s. 300aa-26. If
   35  the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publish a vaccine
   36  information statement that covers multiple vaccines, the health
   37  care provider may have the child’s parent, legal guardian,
   38  authorized person, or other legal representative sign a single
   39  statement for the vaccines covered by the vaccine information
   40  statement.
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   42  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   43         And the title is amended as follows:
   44         Delete lines 12 - 18
   45  and insert:
   46         requiring health care providers to obtain a signed
   47         statement from parents, legal guardians, authorized
   48         persons, and legal representatives documenting that
   49         the vaccine information statements are provided;
   50         specifying the required contents of the signed
   51         statement; requiring health care providers to record
   52         the lot number of each vaccine on the signed statement
   53         or a permanent office log;