Bill Text: MO HB1825 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows a fire truck to be used for specified patient transport under certain conditions
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-21 - Public Hearing Completed (H) [HB1825 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2012-HB1825-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES HINSON (Sponsor), LEARA, FUHR, BROWN (85) AND HAEFNER (Co-sponsors).
5971L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 190, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to patient transport.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 190, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 190.106, to read as follows:
190.106. 1. Notwithstanding subdivision (2) of section 190.100 to the contrary, if a fire protection district's or fire department's staffed ambulances are not available, a fire truck with a patient compartment that meets the National Fire Protection Association Standard 1901 and carries supplies and medical equipment required by 19 CSR 30-40.309(3)(A) and (B) and is operated by a fire protection district or fire department with a hospital within the fire protection district's or fire department's boundaries may be used for the transportation of persons:
(1) In cardiac or respiratory arrest; or
(2) Suffering a level one trauma, an ST-elevation myocardial infarction, or acute stroke symptoms; and
(3) If at least two EMT-paramedics are on board; and
(4) If the transport time is no greater than seven minutes.
2. A fire truck used under the conditions and for the purposes required in subsection 1 of this section shall be exempt from United States General Services Administration's Specification for the Star of Life Ambulance KKK-A-1822F, sections 3.1.5, 3.4.5, 3.4.6, 3.4.10.2, 3.4.10.6, 3.10.3, 3.10.4, 3.10.8, and 3.10.12.
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