00                             SENATE BILL NO. 37                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to the statewide immunization program."                                                                
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 18.09.200(b) is amended to read:                                                                   
04            (b)  The commissioner shall                                                                                  
05                 (1)  establish a procedure [TO PHASE IN THE PROGRAM OVER A                                              
06       THREE-YEAR PERIOD] that provides for participation by an assessable entity;                                       
07                 (2)  maintain a list of recommended vaccines for inclusion in the                                       
08       program;                                                                                                          
09                 (3)  for each included vaccine, establish the initial vaccine assessment                                
10       for the first year of the program and thereafter make annual assessments based on the                             
11       determinations made by the council established under AS 18.09.210;                                                
12                 (4)  notify assessable entities and other program participants of the                                   
13       annual vaccine assessment for each vaccine included in the program;                                               
14                 (5)  devise a method for crediting to assessable entities and other                                     
15       program participants overpayments of vaccine assessments made for reasons related to                              
01       administrative error, program termination, or lower than anticipated actual usage of                              
02       the program by covered individuals;                                                                               
03                 (6)  coordinate collective purchases of included vaccines;                                              
04                 (7)  establish a procedure for statewide distributions of vaccines                                      
05       purchased under the program; and                                                                                  
06                 (8)  review vaccine assessment appeals for error.                                                     
07    * Sec. 2. AS 18.09.220(a) is amended to read:                                                                      
08            (a)  An assessable entity and other program participant shall [, AFTER BEING                                 
09       PHASED INTO THE PROGRAM UNDER PROCEDURES APPROVED BY THE                                                          
10       COMMISSIONER,]                                                                                                    
11 (1)  pay to the department the annual combined vaccine assessments as                                                   
12 determined under the program for the included vaccines covered by the assessable                                        
13 entity or other program participant for each covered individual on a schedule adopted                                   
14       by the council;                                                                                                   
15                 (2)  provide information requested by the council to determine the                                      
16       number of covered individuals, actual vaccine usage under the program, and other data                             
17       necessary to calculate and monitor compliance with the vaccine assessment; and                                    
18                 (3)  provide audited financial statements upon request of the council.                                  
19    * Sec. 3. AS 18.09.220(e) is repealed.                                                                             
20    * Sec. 4. Section 5, ch. 30, SLA 2014, is repealed.