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Read. Follow. Verify.Wyoming adjusts pharmacist immunization age rules and expands pharmacy practice definitions
Last action · March 7, 2026: Assigned Chapter Number 103Sponsors: Dan Dockstader and 5 others
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What This Bill Does
Wyoming lowers the eligible age threshold for pharmacists to prescribe and administer certain immunizations from age seven to age three, while allowing individual pharmacists to decline vaccinations for patients under thirteen without facing employer discrimination. The measure also updates definitions governing the practice of pharmacy, establishes collaborative care guidelines, and requires the state board of pharmacy to promulgate implementing rules by July 1, 2026.
The law alters health care access for pediatric patients by expanding pharmacists' authority to administer immunizations while protecting professional discretion for pharmacists who choose not to vaccinate children under thirteen.
- The Wyoming Pharmacy Act governs the licensing, scope of practice, and professional standards for pharmacists operating within the state. context
- State boards of pharmacy establish administrative rules to implement legislative enactments regarding medication dispensing, collaborative care, and immunization administration. context
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Wyoming licensed pharmacists
Pharmacists gain expanded authority to administer immunizations to children age three and older, receive explicit protections against employer discrimination for declining to vaccinate patients under thirteen, and operate under updated definitions of pharmacy practice.
Minor patients and families
Children aged three and older become eligible to receive recommended immunizations directly from licensed pharmacists, subject to parental consent.
Pharmacy employers and health care facilities
Employers must comply with new anti-discrimination provisions protecting pharmacists who choose not to participate in collaborative care agreements or administer vaccines to children under thirteen.
Key Facts
- Pharmacists licensed in Wyoming may prescribe and administer immunizations recommended for healthy individuals age three and older, lowered from the previous age threshold of seven.
- Pharmacists are explicitly not required to administer immunizations to individuals less than thirteen years of age, and employers are prohibited from discriminating against pharmacists who decline to do so.
- Parental consent is required for prescriptions and administration of immunizations for any minor child.
- Pharmacists administering vaccinations must enter a record of the immunization into the Wyoming immunization registry operated by the department of health.
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- The practice of pharmacy definition is expanded to include interpreting, compounding, and dispensing prescriptions, patient counseling, assessing patients for prescribing drugs, initiating pharmacist care services, and engaging in collaborative pharmaceutical care.
- No pharmacist is required to provide collaborative pharmaceutical care, and employers cannot discriminate against pharmacists who decline to participate in collaborative pharmacy practice agreements.
- The board of pharmacy is required to promulgate all rules necessary to implement the act, with rulemaking authority taking effect immediately upon enactment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can my employer force me as a pharmacist to vaccinate children under thirteen?
Where are pharmacist-administered immunizations required to be recorded?
Does a pharmacist have to participate in collaborative pharmaceutical care?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
22 actions- Mar 7, 2026Governor Signed SEA No. 0065
- Mar 7, 2026Assigned Chapter Number 103
- Mar 6, 2026SenateS President Signed SEA No. 0065
- Mar 6, 2026HouseH Speaker Signed SEA No. 0065
- Mar 5, 2026HouseH 3rd Reading:Passed 41-20-1-0-0
- Mar 5, 2026SenateS Received for Concurrence
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- Mar 5, 2026SenateS Concur:Passed 28-3-0-0-0
- Mar 5, 2026Assigned Number SEA No. 0065
- Mar 4, 2026HouseH 2nd Reading:Passed
- Mar 3, 2026HouseH COW:Passed
- Mar 2, 2026HouseH10 - Labor:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0
- Mar 2, 2026HouseH Placed on General File
- Feb 25, 2026HouseH Received for Introduction
- Feb 25, 2026HouseH Introduced and Referred to H10 - Labor
- Feb 24, 2026SenateS 3rd Reading:Passed 27-4-0-0-0
- Feb 23, 2026SenateS 2nd Reading:Passed
- Feb 20, 2026SenateS COW:Passed
- Feb 19, 2026SenateS10 - Labor:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
- Feb 19, 2026SenateS Placed on General File
- Feb 13, 2026SenateS Introduced and Referred to S10 - Labor 29-2-0-0-0
- Feb 11, 2026Bill Number Assigned
- Feb 11, 2026SenateS Received for Introduction
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Expansion of Pharmacist Immunization Authority
The state lowers the vaccine administration age threshold from seven to three years old while providing specific employment protections for pharmacists who choose not to vaccinate younger children.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance65How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy25Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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