Bill Text: NY A01414 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the provision of municipal advanced life support first responder service or municipal ambulance service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A01414 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01414-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1414
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. STECK --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Health
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to the provision of
          municipal advanced life support first responder service  or  municipal
          ambulance service
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision  7  of  section  3008  of  the
     2  public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 464 of the laws of 2012, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) [In the case of an application for certification pursuant to  this
     5  subdivision,  for  a  municipal advanced life support or municipal ambu-
     6  lance service, to serve the area  within  the  municipality,  where  the
     7  proposed service meets or exceeds the appropriate training, staffing and
     8  equipment  standards,  there  shall  be a strong presumption in favor of
     9  approving the application.] Notwithstanding any other provision of  this
    10  article,  any [city with a population of fourteen thousand seven hundred
    11  or sixty-two thousand two hundred  thirty-five,  according  to  the  two
    12  thousand ten federal decennial census, or fire district acting on behalf
    13  of any such city, that] municipality within this state, or fire district
    14  acting  on  behalf of any such municipality, which applies for permanent
    15  certification pursuant to this [section] subdivision at  the  conclusion
    16  of  the two year period [provided in] contained in paragraph (a) of this
    17  subdivision, shall not be required to apply to  its  regional  emergency
    18  medical  services council [or the state emergency medical services coun-
    19  cil] for a determination of need, and the application shall be submitted
    20  to and such application for a municipal advanced life support or munici-
    21  pal ambulance service to serve the area within the   municipality  shall
    22  be  approved by the commissioner unless the [commissioner finds that the
    23  municipal advanced life support first  responder  service  or  municipal
    24  ambulance  service  has]  provision  of services have failed to meet the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  appropriate  training,  staffing  and  equipment  standards  and/or  the
     2  commissioner  determines  that the municipal advanced life support first
     3  responder service or municipal ambulance service has caused an impact on
     4  services in the surrounding region.
     5    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any
     6  municipality or fire district that  has  a  temporary  determination  of
     7  public  need,  any  application  made by a municipality or fire district
     8  that is currently in the administrative appellate process or  on  appeal
     9  before any court of competent jurisdiction.