Bill Text: NY A08058 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Includes certified first responders in a program relating to recertification of persons providing emergency medical care and removes the designation of such program as a pilot or demonstration program; and extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to recertification of persons providing emergency medical care.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-7)
Status: (Passed) 2019-07-03 - SIGNED CHAP.87 [A08058 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08058-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8058--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 31, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH, GOTTFRIED, COLTON, SIMON, SMULLEN, CROUCH, DeSTEFANO, SALKA, D'URSO, FRONTUS, ORTIZ, BYRNE, BUTTENSCHON, COOK, BARRON, LUPARDO, LAWRENCE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to include certified first responders in a program relating to recertification of persons providing emergency medical care and removing the designation of such program as a pilot or demonstration program; and to amend chapter 459 of the laws of 1996, amending the public health law relating to recer- tification of persons providing emergency medical care, 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. Subdivision 2-b of section 3002 of the public health law, 2 as added by chapter 459 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2-b. The commissioner, in consultation with the state emergency 5 medical services council, shall develop a [pilot] program [in at least6six regions of the state (including the western New York and capital7regions)] to allow certified first responders, emergency medical techni- 8 cians and advanced emergency medical technicians who have been in 9 continuous practice, who have demonstrated competence in applicable 10 behavioral and performance objectives, and who have demonstrated 11 completion of appropriate continuing education, to renew their certif- 12 ication under subdivision two of this section without requiring the 13 completion of a written examination. In implementing this program, the 14 commissioner shall contract with and use the standards established by a 15 nationally recognized organization that certifies certified first EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13115-02-9A. 8058--A 2 1 responders, emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical 2 technicians. [However, no pilot program shall include employees of a3municipal ambulance service in cities with a population over one4million.] Renewals of certification under the [demonstration] program 5 shall be deemed equivalent to renewals under subdivision two of this 6 section for purposes of this article. 7 [Within one year of developing the demonstration program and annually8thereafter, the commissioner shall report to the legislature on the9impact of the program on the quality of patient care, the effectiveness10of the program in retaining certified emergency medical technicians and11advanced emergency medical technicians, and the feasibility of replacing12the state's certification program with a national certification13program.] 14 § 2. Section 2 of chapter 459 of the laws of 1996, amending the public 15 health law relating to recertification of persons providing emergency 16 medical care, as amended by section 26 of part D of chapter 57 of the 17 laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows: 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 19 deemed repealed July 1, [2019] 2021. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 21 the amendments to subdivision 2-b of section 3002 of the public health 22 law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such 23 subdivision, and shall be deemed repealed therewith.