Bill Text: NY S03106 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Expands the emergency medical technician re-certification demonstration program throughout the state; extends the length of such re-certification from five years to seven years.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03106 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03106-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3106--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens. MANNION, OBERACKER, WEBB -- 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 expanding the
          emergency medical technician  re-certification  demonstration  program
          throughout the state and extending the length of such re-certification

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

     1    Section 1. The section heading and subdivisions 1  and  2  of  section
     2  3005-b  of  the public health law, the section heading and subdivision 1
     3  as added by chapter 563 of the  laws  of  2001,  and  subdivision  2  as
     4  amended  by  chapter  643  of  the  laws of 2006, are amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    Emergency medical technician [five] seven year re-certification demon-
     7  stration program.  1. There is hereby created within  the  department  a
     8  demonstration  program (referred to in this section as the "program") to
     9  allow emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical tech-
    10  nicians who have been in continuous practice and who  have  demonstrated
    11  competence  in  applicable  behavioral and performance objectives, to be
    12  re-certified for a [five] seven year period. No person shall be  re-cer-
    13  tified under the program unless [he or she] such person has completed at
    14  least  one  hundred  thirty  hours  of  instruction in emergency medical
    15  services as approved by the commissioner including but  not  limited  to
    16  pediatrics,  geriatrics,  environmental emergencies, legal issues, emer-
    17  gency vehicle operations course and  medical  emergencies.  Renewals  of
    18  certification  under  the program shall be deemed equivalent to renewals
    19  under subdivision two of section three thousand two of this article.
    20    2. The program shall [be limited to persons who are  employed  by  the
    21  New  York  city  fire department or who are in practice in the following

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05309-02-4
        S. 3106--A                          2

     1  counties: Delaware, Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Nassau, Otsego,  Scho-
     2  harie  or Suffolk. The commissioner may limit the number of participants
     3  in the program, except that such limit shall be no less than four  thou-
     4  sand  participants]  apply  to  all emergency medical technicians up for
     5  recertification after the effective date of the chapter of the  laws  of
     6  two thousand twenty-four which amended this subdivision.
     7    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
     8  the amendments to section 3005-b  of  the  public  health  law  made  by
     9  section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
    10  shall be deemed repealed therewith.