Vaccine Information for Nursing Facility Operators Act or the Vaccine INFO Act
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to revise specified regulations that govern infection prevention and control programs in Medicare skilled nursing facilities and Medicaid nursing facilities to ensure that facilities provide their staff with specified information about certain immunizations.
For each immunization recommended for health care personnel by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, facilities must provide their staff with information about the benefits and potential side effects of each immunization.
Additional requirements apply based on whether or not a facility offers any of the recommended immunizations to its staff. Facilities that offer such immunizations must provide the information to staff before offering the immunization. Facilities that do not offer such immunizations must also provide information to staff about the availability and costs of the immunizations.
[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3742 Introduced in House (IH)]
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117th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3742
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue revised
regulations to require the dissemination of information on ACIP
recommended immunizations to staff of nursing facilities.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 8, 2021
Mr. Bilirakis (for himself and Miss Rice of New York) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means,
and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned
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A BILL
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue revised
regulations to require the dissemination of information on ACIP
recommended immunizations to staff of nursing facilities.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Vaccine Information for Nursing
Facility Operators Act'' or the ``Vaccine INFO Act''.
SEC. 2. REQUIRING DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ON ACIP RECOMMENDED
IMMUNIZATIONS TO STAFF OF NURSING FACILITIES.
Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall revise section
483.80 of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, to require that the
policies and procedures that are required under such section to be
developed by a facility described in such section as part of the
infection prevention and control program described in such section
shall include policies and procedures to ensure that--
(1) all individuals who are staff of the facility (as
defined for purposes of such section) are provided information
on the benefits and potential side effects for each
immunization recommended by the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices for health care personnel;
(2) in the case that the facility offers such an
immunization to an individual described in paragraph (1), the
information described in such paragraph for the respective
immunization so offered is provided to such individual before
such immunization is offered to such individual by such
facility; and
(3) in the case that the facility does not offer such an
immunization to individuals who are described in paragraph (1),
the facility includes with the information required to be
provided to such individuals under such paragraph for the
respective immunization that is not so offered, information on
the availability of such immunization, including locations for
receiving such immunization, and the associated costs to the
individual for such immunization.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
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