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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 96: Pharmacist administration of immunizations.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 96 is a bill introduced in the Indiana Senate on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Pharmacist administration of immunizations. Primary sponsor: Lori Goss-Reaves (Republican), Jean Leising (Republican), Vaneta Becker (Republican). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 3, 2025): First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Allows a pharmacist to administer an immunization that is recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and approved by federal Food and Drug Administration to a group of individuals under a drug order, under a prescription, or according to a protocol approved by a physician if certain conditions are met. (Current law allows a pharmacist to administer specified immunizations to a group of individuals under a drug order, under a prescription, or according to a protocol approved by a physician if certain conditions are met.) Authorizes the commissioner of the Indiana department of health to remove during the legislative interim a vaccination from the list of vaccinations otherwise recommended and approved by the federal government. Provides that the commissioner's removal of the vaccination from the list is effective until the date that the general assembly adjourns sine die in the ensuing calendar year.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 4

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Lori Goss-ReavesPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse31
Jean LeisingPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate42
Vaneta BeckerPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate50
Lonnie RandolphCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate2
Mike YoungCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate35

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
  2. Referred to the House
  3. House sponsor: Representative Goss-Reaves
  4. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 146: yeas 49, nays 0
  5. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
  6. Amendment #2 (Johnson T) prevailed; voice vote
  7. Senator Randolph added as coauthor
  8. Senator Leising added as second author
  9. Committee report: do pass, adopted
  10. First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy
  11. Authored by Senator Becker
  12. Coauthored by Senator Young M

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source