334.157. Board to promulgate certain rules relating to vaccines and immunizations. - Missouri Statutes

Board to promulgate certain rules relating to vaccines andimmunizations.

334.157. The state board of registration for the healing arts, inconsultation with the department of health and senior services, shallpromulgate rules and regulations requiring physicians to:

(1) Administer hepatitis B vaccine and immunoglobulin to neonates inkeeping with standards of current medical practice in any instance in whichthe blood test for hepatitis B performed in accordance with section 210.030,RSMo, indicates the neonate has been exposed or is at risk of exposure tohepatitis B; and

(2) Recommend to the parents or legal guardians of any neonate who isnot found to have been exposed or at risk of exposure to hepatitis B that theneonate receive hepatitis B vaccine in accordance with standards of currentmedical practice, upon receipt of informed written consent of the parents orlegal guardians.

(L. 1993 H.B. 522 § 3)