
Texas legislators filed a dangerous bill for 2025 that would trivialize vaccine risks and severe reactions by allowing pharmacy technicians to administer vaccines.
SB 398 amends Texas Statutes Occupations Code Section 554.004, specifically subsection (a)(7), to authorize pharmacists to delegate the administration of vaccines to registered pharmacy technicians.
This represents a significant change to existing law, which prohibits pharmacists from delegating the administration of any medication. The bill removes that prohibition and explicitly permits pharmacists to delegate the administration of vaccines to pharmacy technicians.
Inadequately trained pharmacy technicians should not be allowed to administer potentially life-threatening vaccines to either adults or young children. Even pharmacists do not have the qualifications to provide vaccinations safely.
Pharmacists and their staff typically do not possess the extensive expertise needed for administering vaccines, comprehending associated risks, conducting thorough prescreening, identifying contraindications, executing emergency interventions for adverse reactions, reporting reactions to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, and providing guidance to parents and patients regarding matters like the statute of limitations and instructions for filing a claim with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Furthermore, Vaccine Information Statements outline numerous reasons why patients may not be suitable candidates for vaccination. It is highly improbable that a pharmacist or technician would have the time to address all these potential concerns thoroughly.
Please speak up! We need YOUR voice to stop SB 398 in its tracks!
TAKE ACTION
Contact your Texas State Senator and ask him/her to OPPOSE SB 398.
You can look up who represents you here: https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home
Calls are more effective than emails and only take a few minutes. Below is a sample script along with additional Talking Points. Use your own words when you call or email – a personal message is always more effective than a form message!
SAMPLE SCRIPT:
“Hi, my name is ____, and I am a constituent. I am calling to ask Senator ____ to oppose SB 398, which would allow pharmacy technicians to administer vaccines.
Pharmacy technicians are minimally trained employees who must only meet the following requirements to register in the State of Texas: they must be at least 18 years old, have a high school diploma or equivalent, pass a criminal background check, work in a pharmacy, and pass the national PTCB or NHA exam.
Like pharmacists, these technicians lack the comprehensive medical training required to properly screen individuals for contraindications to vaccination or to identify and manage potentially life-threatening reactions that can occur following vaccination. Delegating such critical responsibilities to pharmacy technicians further exacerbates the risks associated with improper vaccination practices.
It is reckless to allow pharmacy employees to administer vaccines, especially when they do not have access to a person’s medical history.
As recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court – and evidenced by the $5.1 billion that the federal government has paid to victims – vaccines can injure and kill an individual.
I urge _______ to oppose this bill.”
You may wish to use a couple of the talking points below. Don’t copy all of them – just use them as ideas to help structure your own message.
TALKING POINTS:
- When pharmacists or their employees are allowed to administer vaccines, it diminishes the doctor/patient relationship and removes critical health history screenings prior to vaccination. Pharmacists do not have the necessary medical history of an infant or child or the time to prescreen for contraindications based on a child’s personal and family history and unique health needs prior to vaccination.
- Most pharmacies and grocery stores don’t have lifesaving defibrillators as they do in doctors’ offices to save the lives of people who have an immediate life-threatening reaction to vaccines. Will pharmacists or their technicians have the equipment and training to be able to tell the difference between cardiac arrest, anaphylaxis, and fainting and act accordingly to save the lives of babies and children who react at the time of vaccination?
- Vaccine Information Statements list many reasons why patients should not be vaccinated. It is highly unlikely that a pharmacist or their technician has the time to ask about all the reasons not to vaccinate them.
- Allowing pharmacists and their technicians to administer vaccines without access to a person’s medical records means that a person may receive unintended or duplicate vaccines.
- Pharmacy groups will support these bills, but it presents a serious conflict of interest because of the financial benefits they will receive if the bills pass. America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are developing 258 vaccines. The U.S. Vaccine Market alone was $36.45 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach $149 billion by 2026. Pharmacies stand to increase their profits substantially by allowing pharmacy technicians to put those shots into customers.
- Neither pharmacists nor pharmacy technicians will have liability for the injuries and deaths caused by the vaccines they administer to children. Vaccine administrators are shielded from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths through the combination of the law passed by Congress in 1986 establishing the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and the 2011 Supreme Court Decision BRUESEWITZ ET AL. v. WYETH LLC, FKA WYETH, INC., ET AL.
- Vaccine package inserts warn of the risk of brain damage, life-threatening allergy, and death, and no one knows in advance whom a vaccine will harm. Pharmacists are not equipped to recognize nor handle serious adverse reactions.
- Vaccines are medical procedures that carry a risk of serious injury. Hundreds of thousands have reported an adverse reaction to vaccination to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The U.S. Government has paid out $5.1 billion to the victims of vaccine injury, per VICP Data Reports. https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/data
- Covid shot manufacturers and providers are shielded from liability through the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, or PREP Act. The only option for compensating people injured by COVID-19 vaccines is the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). Only eight percent of all petitioners since 2010 have been awarded compensation through the CICP. No legal or medical expert fees are covered, no pain and suffering is awarded, lost wages are capped at $50,000 per year, and there is no judicial appeal. In other words, the victims will be severely under-compensated while the pharmaceutical companies get rich.
Prep Act – https://aspr.hhs.gov/legal/PREPact/Pages/default.aspx
Coverage by CCIP (see p. 7, Oct 2021) – https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10584
“Vaccine injury compensation programs overwhelmed as congressional reform languishes” (6/1/2022) – https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/vaccine-injury-compensation-programs-overwhelmed-as-congressional-reform-languishes-00033064
- There have already been 1,568,332 Covid-19 Vaccine adverse events and 37,735 Covid-19 vaccine deaths reported in the U.S. to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (per data released 12/27/24).
Run your own search – https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.php
Cases (adverse events) – https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php
Deaths – https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&EVENTS=ON&VAX%5B%5D=COVID19&DIED=Yes
MORE INFORMATION
View the text, status, and history of the bill here: https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=SB398
LINKS embedded in this alert:
Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System –
instructions for filing a claim –
https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/how-to-file
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program –
https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation
Vaccine Information Statements –
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/index.html
$5 billion as of 9/29/2023 –
https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vicp/vicp-stats-09-01-23.pdf
Read this article on the lack of safety for all vaccines: https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/vaccines-unsafe-since-the-very-beginning/#gsc.tab=0
Read these articles for more information on the dangers of Covid shots:
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