Bill Text: IL HR0444 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the Illinois Department of Public Health, the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board, the Illinois State Police, the State's fire departments and districts, the Office of the Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator, and all public safety agencies in the State to review policies and procedures pertaining to the potential dangers encountered by emergency medical technicians, paramedics, public safety telecommunicators, and other first responders involved in rendering medical assistance. Urges that the training of first responders include policies and procedures to improve situational awareness and communication. Urges that training also include policies and procedures to help identify potentially dangerous situations, how to properly communicate a threat, and the appropriate actions, disengagement, or response needed to de-escalate dangerous situations. Urges State's public safety agencies to critique past experiences of emergency medical responses that evolved into violent or potentially violent incidents.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-10-24 - Referred to Rules Committee [HR0444 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HR0444-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION | ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), paramedics, | ||||||
| 3 | and other first responders may be exposed to unforeseen | ||||||
| 4 | dangers when rendering medical assistance or crisis | ||||||
| 5 | intervention; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, These dangers may include rendering medical aid | ||||||
| 7 | in the presence of hidden weapons to perpetrators of crime, to | ||||||
| 8 | suspects attempting to elude police, or to patients confused | ||||||
| 9 | or experiencing an altered state of consciousness; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, First responders may render aid to patients under | ||||||
| 11 | known or unknown conditions of medical trauma, shock, comas, | ||||||
| 12 | hallucinations, emotional and psychological crisis, | ||||||
| 13 | intoxication, or the influence of narcotics and other | ||||||
| 14 | substances; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, Emergency calls that begin as medical assistance | ||||||
| 16 | or crisis intervention situations could either potentially | ||||||
| 17 | evolve or suddenly transition into a very dangerous physical | ||||||
| 18 | conflict, and these situations may include the presence of | ||||||
| 19 | weapons, such as firearms, and may become violent, thereby | ||||||
| 20 | endangering the lives of first responders, patients, and the | ||||||
| 21 | public; therefore, be it
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| 1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 2 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 3 | we urge the Illinois Department of Public Health, the Illinois | ||||||
| 4 | Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board, the Illinois | ||||||
| 5 | State Police, the State's fire departments and districts, the | ||||||
| 6 | Office of the Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator, and all public | ||||||
| 7 | safety agencies in the State to review policies and procedures | ||||||
| 8 | pertaining to the potential dangers encountered by emergency | ||||||
| 9 | medical technicians, paramedics, public safety | ||||||
| 10 | telecommunicators, and other first responders involved in | ||||||
| 11 | rendering medical assistance; and be it further
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| 12 | RESOLVED, That we urge that the training of first | ||||||
| 13 | responders include policies and procedures that will improve | ||||||
| 14 | situational awareness and the communications of EMTs, police, | ||||||
| 15 | dispatch, and firefighters to best preserve their safety and | ||||||
| 16 | the safety of patients and the public from these potentially | ||||||
| 17 | dangerous situations; and be it further
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| 18 | RESOLVED, That we urge that the training of first | ||||||
| 19 | responders include procedures and policies to help identify | ||||||
| 20 | such potentially dangerous situations, how to properly | ||||||
| 21 | communicate a threat with dispatch, law enforcement, and other | ||||||
| 22 | relevant responders, and the appropriate actions, | ||||||
| 23 | disengagement, or response needed to de-escalate dangerous | ||||||
| 24 | situations; and be it further
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| 1 | RESOLVED, That we urge the State's public safety agencies | ||||||
| 2 | to critique their response to past experiences of emergency | ||||||
| 3 | medical responses that evolved into violent or potentially | ||||||
| 4 | violent incidents and to include, in their culture and | ||||||
| 5 | procedures, open discussions about such responses and the | ||||||
| 6 | necessary training, policies, and procedures needed to | ||||||
| 7 | appropriately address such events in the future; and be it | ||||||
| 8 | further
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