Bill Text: NY A06683 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6683

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Bill Title: Establishes a community-based paramedicine demonstration program to operate with the flexibility authorized under Executive Order Number 4 of 2021, and in the same manner and capacity as currently approved for a period of two year.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-09 - substituted by s6749b [A06683 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06683-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6683--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 28, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, STIRPE, WALLACE, WOERNER, LUPARDO, McDO-
          NALD, ZEBROWSKI, LUNSFORD, BRONSON, BUTTENSCHON,  FAHY,  FALL,  LEVEN-
          BERG,  WALSH  --  read once and referred to the Committee on Health --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to establishing a
          community-based paramedicine demonstration program; and providing  for
          the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2805-aa to read as follows:
     3    §  2805-aa. Community-based paramedicine demonstration program. 1. The
     4  department shall establish a community-based paramedicine  demonstration
     5  program  to  evaluate the concept of community paramedicine in different
     6  communities in the state.
     7    2. This program shall only allow for mobile integrated  and  community
     8  paramedicine programs presently operating and approved by the department
     9  as  of  May  eleventh, two thousand twenty-three, under the authority of
    10  Executive Order Number 4 of two thousand twenty-one, entitled "Declaring
    11  a Statewide Disaster Emergency Due to Healthcare staffing  shortages  in
    12  the  State  of  New York" to continue in the same manner and capacity as
    13  currently approved for a period of one year following the effective date
    14  of this section.
    15    3. Such program shall include but not be limited to:
    16    (a) authorizing EMTs and advance EMTs to provide emergent and  non-em-
    17  ergent services within their scope of practice beyond settings currently
    18  authorized.
    19    (b) permitting emergency medical service personnel to provide communi-
    20  ty  paramedicine,  use alternative destinations, telemedicine to facili-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11015-05-3

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     1  tate treatment of persons in place, and such other services  as  may  be
     2  approved by the commissioner.
     3    (c)   authorizing   certified  emergency  medical  technicians  and/or
     4  paramedics  providing  community  paramedicine  services,   with   prior
     5  approval of the department, to administer vaccinations against influenza
     6  and  COVID-19  pursuant  to  non-patient  specific  orders and under the
     7  medical direction of a licensed physician.
     8    4. Upon the effective date  of  this  section,  the  department  shall
     9  convene  an advisory panel including stakeholders representing patients,
    10  health care facilities operating  or  utilizing  community  paramedicine
    11  programs,  EMS  providers and unions representing EMS, nursing and other
    12  healthcare professional titles affected  by  the  demonstration  program
    13  flexibilities to help formulate regulations and guidance that will:
    14    (a) evaluate patient safety and standards of care for community param-
    15  edicine programs participating in the demonstration program;
    16    (b)  establish  criteria  setting  forth  permitted  tasks that can be
    17  performed by each category of EMS personnel;
    18    (c) establish minimum  training  and  competencies  required  for  EMS
    19  personnel to provide patient care services; and
    20    (d)  work with the department to issue such regulations and guidelines
    21  within ninety days following the assembly of the advisory panel.
    22    5. The department shall  evaluate  and  report  on  the  demonstration
    23  program ninety days after the completion of the demonstration program.
    24    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    25  deemed repealed 1 year after such date; provided, however, that if  this
    26  act shall have become a law on or after May 22, 2023 this act shall take
    27  effect  immediately  and  shall be deemed to have been in full force and
    28  effect on and after May 22, 2023.