Bill Text: NY A06416 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs that all ambulances shall be equipped with epinephrine auto-injector devices.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to health [A06416 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A06416-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6416--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 3, 2009
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       Introduced  by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, SPANO, HOOPER, MILLMAN, COOK, CASTRO,
         JAFFEE, TITUS, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, GORDON,
         GREENE,  MAISEL,  ROBINSON,  SCHIMEL,  WEISENBERG  --  read  once  and
         referred  to  the  Committee  on  Health -- committee discharged, bill
         amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
         tee
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing that all
         ambulances shall be equipped with epinephrine auto-injector devices
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The section heading of 3000-c of the public health law,  as
    2  added by chapter 578 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
    3    Epinephrine auto-injector devices; COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT.
    4    S  2. Section 3000-d of the public health law is renumbered 3000-e and
    5  a new section 3000-d is added to read as follows:
    6    S 3000-D. EPINEPHRINE AUTO-INJECTOR DEVICES; AMBULANCE SERVICES.    1.
    7  AS  USED  IN THIS SECTION, "AMBULANCE" SHALL MEAN ANY MOTOR VEHICLE USED
    8  TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN  SECTION
    9  THREE THOUSAND ONE OF THIS ARTICLE, WHETHER OWNED BY THE STATE, A MUNIC-
   10  IPAL CORPORATION OR BY A PRIVATE ENTITY.
   11    2.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, EVERY
   12  AMBULANCE SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH AN EPINEPHRINE AUTO-INJECTOR.
   13    3. ALL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE  PROVIDERS  SHALL  HAVE  SUCCESSFULLY
   14  COMPLETED  A  TRAINING  COURSE  IN  THE USE OF EPINEPHRINE AUTO-INJECTOR
   15  DEVICES APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   16    4. EVERY AMBULANCE SERVICE AUTHORIZED TO POSSESS AND  USE  EPINEPHRINE
   17  AUTO-INJECTOR  DEVICES  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL USE, MAINTAIN AND
   18  DISPOSE OF SUCH DEVICES PURSUANT TO REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT.
   19    5. USE OF AN EPINEPHRINE AUTO-INJECTOR DEVICE PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION
   20  SHALL BE CONSIDERED EMERGENCY TREATMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF  ANY  STATUTE
   21  RELATING TO LIABILITY.
   22    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   23  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09764-02-9