SAVE Act

Bill: 117-hr-5699
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. O'Halleran, Tom [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2021-10-22
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services

Civil actions and liability

Dental care

Drug therapy

Emergency Management

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Health care quality

Health personnel

Immunology and vaccination

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Medical education

Nursing
Latest action: action_date: 2021-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-10-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Student Assisted Vaccination Effort Act or the SAVE Act</strong></p> <p>This bill expands the types of medical personnel authorized to administer or use a covered countermeasure (i.e., a qualified pandemic or epidemic product, a security countermeasure, certain drugs, biomedical products, or medical devices, or a respiratory protective device) during a federally-declared public health emergency to include specified health profession students with appropriate training in administering vaccines and supervision by a licensed health professional.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5699 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 22, 2021 Mr. O'Halleran (for himself, Mr. McKinley , Ms. Roybal-Allard , and Mr. Joyce of Ohio ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To expand the definition of qualified persons for purposes of the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act to include health professional students.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Student Assisted Vaccination Effort Act or the SAVE Act . 2. Qualified persons Section 319F–3(i)(8) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–6d(i)(8)) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ; or and inserting a semicolon; (2) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); and (3) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following: (B) a medical, nursing, pharmacy, pharmacy intern, midwife, paramedic, advanced or intermediate emergency medical technician, physician assistant, respiratory therapy, dental, podiatry, optometry or veterinary student with— (i) appropriate training in administering vaccines, as determined by the student's school or training program; and (ii) supervision by an individual described in subparagraph (A); or .