Amendment ID: S2655-17-R1

Redraft Amendment 17

Health Care Expertise

Ms. Rausch moves that the proposed new text be amended in section 19 by striking out, in line 460, the words “list of routine childhood immunizations, including”; and

in said section 19, by inserting after the word “purchased”, in line 461, the following words:- “based on a list of routine childhood immunizations”; and

in said section 19, by striking out, in line 471, the words “list of routine childhood immunizations and”; and

in said section 19 by adding the following paragraph:-

“There shall be a committee on immunization protocols consisting of a pediatric epidemiologist licensed to practice in the commonwealth to be appointed by the commissioner of public health and the following members of the vaccine program advisory council established pursuant to this subsection: the commissioner of public health or a designee, who shall serve as chair; the medical director of the universal immunization program of the department of public health established under section 24I; the member of the Massachusetts Medical Society; the member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics; the member of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians; and the 3 physicians licensed to practice in the commonwealth who have expertise in the area of childhood vaccines. The committee shall recommend to the commissioner a list of routine childhood immunizations.”; and

in section 91 by striking out the words “vaccine program advisory council”, in line 1069, and inserting in place thereof the following words:- “committee on immunization protocols”.