Bill Text: NY S00843 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the good samaritan ambulance act to allow the provision of ambulance services outside of an agency's primary territory in emergencies.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-21 - PRINT NUMBER 843A [S00843 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00843-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         843--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the good
          samaritan ambulance act of 2016
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall  be  known and may be cited as "the good
     2  samaritan ambulance act of 2016".
     3    § 2. Section 3001 of the public health law is amended by adding a  new
     4  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
     5    22. "Operate" means with respect to an ambulance receiving patients.
     6    §  3.  Subdivision  1  of  section  3010  of the public health law, as
     7  amended by chapter 588 of the laws  of  1993,  is  amended  to  read  as
     8  follows:
     9    1.  Every  ambulance  service certificate or statement of registration
    10  issued under this article shall specify  the  primary  territory  within
    11  which  the ambulance service shall be permitted to operate. An ambulance
    12  service shall receive patients only within the primary territory  speci-
    13  fied  on its ambulance service certificate or statement of registration,
    14  except: (a) when receiving a patient which it initially transported to a
    15  facility or location outside its primary territory; (b) as required  for
    16  the  fulfillment  of  a  mutual aid agreement authorized by the regional
    17  council; (c) upon express approval of the department and the appropriate
    18  regional emergency medical services council for a maximum of sixty  days
    19  if  necessary  to  meet  an  emergency  need;  provided that in order to
    20  continue such operation beyond the sixty day maximum period necessary to
    21  meet an emergency need, the ambulance service must satisfy the  require-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03873-02-6