Bill Text: TX HB2400 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the application requirements for first responder organizations to receive an initial license or to renew a license.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-07 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB2400 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2400-Introduced.html
86R2631 JG-F | ||
By: Martinez | H.B. No. 2400 |
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relating to the application requirements for first responder | ||
organizations to receive an initial license or to renew a license. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 773.003(16), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(16) "First responder organization" means a group or | ||
association of certified emergency medical services personnel | ||
that, working in cooperation with a licensed emergency medical | ||
services provider, provides immediate on-scene care under the | ||
direction of a medical director to ill or injured persons but does | ||
not transport those persons. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 773, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 773.0416 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 773.0416. ADDITIONAL APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR | ||
FIRST RESPONDER ORGANIZATIONS. (a) To the extent the rules adopted | ||
under this chapter require a first responder organization to submit | ||
an application for a license, each first responder organization | ||
shall include with an application for an initial or renewal | ||
license: | ||
(1) for a first responder organization affiliated with | ||
an emergency medical services provider, notice of any disagreement | ||
regarding treatment protocols or equipment between the first | ||
responder organization's medical director and the emergency | ||
medical services provider's medical director; and | ||
(2) for a first responder organization not affiliated | ||
with an emergency medical services provider: | ||
(A) proof that the first responder | ||
organization's medical director provided a copy of the | ||
organization's treatment protocols to the medical director of each | ||
emergency medical services provider that provides patient | ||
transport services for patients treated by the organization's | ||
personnel and that has an agreement with the organization; and | ||
(B) notice of any disagreement regarding | ||
treatment protocols or equipment between the first responder | ||
organization's medical director and the medical director of each | ||
emergency medical services provider that has an agreement with the | ||
organization. | ||
(b) The executive commissioner may not require a first | ||
responder organization to obtain the approval of an emergency | ||
medical services provider's medical director regarding treatment | ||
protocols or equipment for issuance of an initial or renewal first | ||
responder organization license. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 773.0416, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
added by this Act, applies only to an application submitted on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt any rules necessary to implement | ||
Section 773.0416, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |