Bill Text: NY S03091 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3091

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides direct reciprocal certification for emergency medical technicians who possess a current certification from the national registry of emergency medical technicians.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S03091 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03091-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3091

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  providing  direct
          reciprocal certification for certain emergency medical technicians

          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  3005-c to read as follows:
     3    §  3005-c.  Emergency  medical  technicians; direct reciprocal certif-
     4  ication.  The commissioner, in consultation with the bureau of emergency
     5  medical services, otherwise subject to the provisions  of  this  article
     6  and  the  rules of the department promulgated thereunder prescribing the
     7  qualifications for an emergency medical technician, shall grant, without
     8  payment of a fee or examination, a  New  York  state  emergency  medical
     9  technician  certification  to any individual who holds a current certif-
    10  ication from the national registry  of  emergency  medical  technicians.
    11  Renewals  of  certification  under  such  grant  of reciprocity shall be
    12  deemed equivalent to renewals of certification pursuant  to  subdivision
    13  two of section three thousand two of this article.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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