Bill Text: TX SB1808 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to pediatric equipment and supplies for emergency medical services vehicles and pediatric care training for emergency medical services personnel.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-24 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1808 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1808-Introduced.html

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82R8314 YDB-D
By: Lucio S.B. No. 1808

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to pediatric equipment and supplies for emergency medical
services vehicles and pediatric care training for emergency medical
services personnel.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 773.050, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by amending Subsections (f) and (g) and adding Subsection
(f-1) to read as follows:
(f) The executive commissioner shall recognize, prepare, or
administer continuing education programs for certified personnel.
A certificate holder must participate in the programs to the extent
required by Subsection (f-1) and the executive commissioner to
remain certified.
(f-1) Emergency medical services personnel must attend
continuing education training in the management and care of
pediatric patients, including pediatric patients with special
health care needs, that is provided by the department or by a
department-approved continuing education program for certified
emergency medical services personnel. The continuing education
training may include online courses. Emergency medical services
personnel must successfully complete hours of the continuing
education training every two years of the four-year certification
period as follows:
(1) one hour for emergency medical care attendants;
(2) two hours for emergency medical
technicians-basic;
(3) six hours for emergency medical
technicians-intermediate; and
(4) eight hours for emergency medical
technicians-paramedic.
(g) Rules adopting minimum standards under this section
shall require:
(1) an emergency medical services vehicle to be
equipped with:
(A) an epinephrine auto-injector device or
similar device to treat anaphylaxis; and
(B) essential pediatric equipment and supplies
for the vehicle as required under Section 773.173(a-1); and
(2) emergency medical services personnel to complete
continuing education training in:
(A) the administration of anaphylaxis treatment;
and
(B) the management and care of pediatric patients
as prescribed by Subsection (f-1).
SECTION 2. Section 773.173, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsections (a-1) and (b-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(3)(B), the executive
commissioner by rule shall adopt minimum standards for essential
pediatric equipment and supplies required for an emergency medical
services vehicle and appropriate for the scope of practice
delegated by the medical director and consistent with the level of
care designation authorized for the vehicle.
(b-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), in adopting rules
under Subsection (a-1), the executive commissioner shall consider:
(1) the most current recommendations on pediatric
equipment and supplies for ambulances developed by a consensus of
national organizations of trauma surgeons, emergency physicians,
pediatricians, and emergency medical services physicians or
developed by members of a national pediatric equipment guidelines
committee; and
(2) the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine's
report "Emergency Care for Children: Growing Pains," 2007, or, as
determined appropriate by the executive commissioner, an updated
version of that report.
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than January 1, 2012, the
executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission
shall adopt the rules required by Sections 773.050(g), Health and
Safety Code, as amended by this Act, and 773.173(a-1), Health and
Safety Code, as added by this Act.
(b) Notwithstanding Sections 773.050(f) and (g), Health and
Safety Code, as amended by this Act:
(1) an emergency medical services provider is not
required to equip emergency medical services vehicles with the
pediatric equipment and supplies required under Section
773.173(a-1), Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, until
September 1, 2012; and
(2) emergency medical services personnel are not
required to have completed continuing education training as
described by Sections 773.050(f-1) and (g)(2)(B), Health and Safety
Code, as added by this Act, until September 1, 2013.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.