Bill Text: NY A07505 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of transportation and the New York state emergency medical services council, to promulgate rules and regulations for the operation of ambulances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-27 - print number 7505a [A07505 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07505-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7505--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 28, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health -- recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Health  in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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 the
          commissioner of health,  in  consultation  with  the  commissioner  of
          transportation and the New York state emergency medical services coun-
          cil, to establish rules and regulations for ambulances
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3011 of the public health law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12.  The  commissioner shall, in consultation with the commissioner of
     4  transportation and the state council, establish  rules  and  regulations
     5  for ambulance services in order to ensure the physical safety of passen-
     6  gers  and  the  public at large during the transport of such passengers.
     7  Such rules and regulations shall include, but shall not be  limited  to,
     8  the  allowable  number of consecutive hours an ambulance driver may work
     9  and the requisite training an ambulance driver shall  receive  prior  to
    10  operating an ambulance.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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