Bill Text: NY A09943 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Relates to the provision of municipal advanced life support first responder service or municipal ambulance service.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2012-10-03 - signed chap.464 [A09943 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A09943-Amended.html
Bill Title: Relates to the provision of municipal advanced life support first responder service or municipal ambulance service.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2012-10-03 - signed chap.464 [A09943 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A09943-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9943--A I N A S S E M B L Y April 26, 2012 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRINDISI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE -- 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 eliminating the requirement to prove public need for the establishment and operation of advanced life support services or municipal ambulance services by a municipality or fire district THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3008 of the public health law, as 2 added by chapter 510 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows: 3 7. [(a)] Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the 4 provisions of this article, any municipality within this state, or fire 5 district acting on behalf of any such municipality, and acting through 6 its local legislative body, is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt 7 and amend local laws, ordinances or resolutions to establish and operate 8 advanced life support first responder services or municipal ambulance 9 services within the municipality, upon meeting or exceeding all stand- 10 ards set by the department for appropriate training, staffing and equip- 11 ment, and upon filing with the New York state emergency medical services 12 council, a written request for such authorization. Upon such filing, 13 such municipal advanced life support first responder service or munici- 14 pal ambulance service shall be deemed to have satisfied any and all 15 requirements for determination of public need for the establishment of 16 additional emergency medical services pursuant to this article [for a 17 period of two years following the date of such filing]. Nothing in this 18 article shall be deemed to exclude the municipal advanced life support 19 first responder service or municipal ambulance service authorized to be 20 established and operated pursuant to this article from complying with 21 any other requirement or provision of this article or any other applica- 22 ble provision of law. 23 [(b) In the case of an application for certification pursuant to this 24 subdivision, for a municipal advanced life support or municipal ambu- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15442-02-2 A. 9943--A 2 1 lance service, to serve the area within the municipality, where the 2 proposed service meets or exceeds the appropriate training, staffing and 3 equipment standards, there shall be a strong presumption in favor of 4 approving the application.] 5 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.