Bill Text: TX SB1808 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to pediatric equipment and supplies for emergency medical services vehicles and pediatric care training for emergency medical services personnel.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-24 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1808 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1808-Introduced.html
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By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1808 |
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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. |