Student Assisted Vaccination Effort Act or the SAVE Act
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.
To expand the definition of qualified persons for purposes of the 
   Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act to include health 
                         professional students.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Student Assisted Vaccination Effort 
Act'' or the ``SAVE Act''.

SEC. 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''.
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SAVE Act
To expand the definition of qualified persons for purposes of the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act to include health professional students.
SAVE Act
Student Assisted Vaccination Effort Act
Rep. O'Halleran, Tom