Bill Text: NY S09212 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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; 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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          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  the
    21  New  York  city  fire department or who are in practice in the following
    22  counties: Delaware, Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Nassau, Otsego,  Scho-
    23  harie  or Suffolk. The commissioner may limit the number of participants

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15856-01-2
        S. 9212                             2

     1  in the program, except that such limit shall be no less than four  thou-
     2  sand  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.