Bill Text: NY S09212 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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; extends the authorization of such program from 2023 to 2025.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-12 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S09212 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S09212-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9212 IN SENATE May 12, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MANNION -- 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 expanding the emergency medical technician re-certification demonstration program throughout the state and extending the length of such re-certifica- tion; and to amend chapter 563 of the laws of 2001 amending the public health law relating to providing for an emergency technician five year re-certification demonstration program in certain counties, in relation to the effectiveness thereof 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 has completed at least one 14 hundred thirty hours of instruction in emergency medical services as 15 approved by the commissioner including but not limited to pediatrics, 16 geriatrics, environmental emergencies, legal issues, emergency vehicle 17 operations course and medical emergencies. Renewals of certification 18 under the program shall be deemed equivalent to renewals under subdivi- 19 sion two of section three thousand two of this article. 20 2. The program shall [be limited to persons who are employed by the21New York city fire department or who are in practice in the following22counties: Delaware, Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Nassau, Otsego, Scho-23harie or Suffolk. The commissioner may limit the number of participantsEXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15856-01-2S. 9212 2 1in the program, except that such limit shall be no less than four thou-2sand participants] apply to all emergency medical technicians up for 3 recertification after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of 4 two thousand twenty-two which amended this subdivision. 5 § 2. Section 2 of chapter 563 of the laws of 2001 amending the public 6 health law relating to providing for an emergency technician five year 7 re-certification demonstration program in certain counties, as amended 8 by chapter 102 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows: 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 10 deemed repealed [July] January 1, [2023] 2025. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that 12 the amendments to section 3005-b of the public health law made by 13 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and 14 shall be deemed repealed therewith.