Bill Text: NY S06515 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the provision of municipal advanced life support first responder service or municipal ambulance service.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-05 - PRINT NUMBER 6515A [S06515 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S06515-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6515--A I N S E N A T E January 31, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sens. LITTLE, HASSELL-THOMPSON, LIBOUS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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 the provision of municipal advanced life support first responder service or municipal ambulance service THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section 3008 of the 2 public health law, as amended by chapter 464 of the laws of 2012, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (b) [In the case of an application for certification pursuant to this 5 subdivision, for a municipal advanced life support or municipal ambu- 6 lance service, to serve the area within the municipality, where the 7 proposed service meets or exceeds the appropriate training, staffing and 8 equipment standards, there shall be a strong presumption in favor of 9 approving the application.] Notwithstanding any other provision of this 10 article, any [city with a population of fourteen thousand seven hundred 11 or sixty-two thousand two hundred thirty-five, according to the two 12 thousand ten federal decennial census, or fire district acting on behalf 13 of any such city, that] MUNICIPALITY WITHIN THIS STATE, OR FIRE DISTRICT 14 ACTING ON BEHALF OF ANY SUCH MUNICIPALITY, WHICH applies for permanent 15 certification pursuant to this [section] SUBDIVISION at the conclusion 16 of the two year period [provided in] CONTAINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF this 17 subdivision, shall not be required to apply to its regional emergency 18 medical services council [or the state emergency medical services coun- 19 cil] for a determination of need, and the application shall be submitted 20 to and SUCH APPLICATION FOR A MUNICIPAL ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT OR MUNICI- 21 PAL AMBULANCE SERVICE TO SERVE THE AREA WITHIN THE MUNICIPALITY SHALL 22 BE approved by the commissioner unless the [commissioner finds that the 23 municipal advanced life support first responder service or municipal 24 ambulance service has] PROVISION OF SERVICES HAVE failed to meet the 25 appropriate training, staffing and equipment standards AND/OR THE EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13644-05-4 S. 6515--A 2 1 COMMISSIONER DETERMINES THAT THE MUNICIPAL ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT FIRST 2 RESPONDER SERVICE OR MUNICIPAL AMBULANCE SERVICE HAS CAUSED AN IMPACT ON 3 SERVICES IN THE SURROUNDING REGION. 4 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any 5 municipality or fire district that has a temporary determination of 6 public need, any application made by a municipality or fire district 7 that is currently in the administrative appellate process or on appeal 8 before any court of competent jurisdiction.