Bill Text: NY S00919 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes certain emergency medical technicians and paramedics to administer certain vaccines pursuant to non-patient specific orders and under the authority of an emergency medical services director after receiving appropriate training.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S00919 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00919-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           919

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
          certain  emergency  medical  technicians  and paramedics to administer
          certain vaccines pursuant to non-patient specific orders and under the
          authority of an emergency medical services director

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  3005-c to read as follows:
     3    § 3005-c. Vaccination by emergency medical technicians and paramedics.
     4  1. Emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical  techni-
     5  cians  may administer vaccinations against influenza and COVID-19 pursu-
     6  ant to a non-patient specific order and under the authority of an  emer-
     7  gency  medical  services  director  while  overseen  or  approved by the
     8  department of health or local health departments and operated under  the
     9  medical  supervision  of licensed physicians, licensed physician assist-
    10  ants, or certified nurse practitioners; provided that  such  individuals
    11  first  receive  training  in  the  following areas, as determined by the
    12  commissioner after consultation with the commissioner of education:
    13    (a) techniques, indications, precautions, contraindications, infection
    14  control practices;
    15    (b) use of personal protective equipment  sufficient  to  provide  the
    16  basic level of competence for such tasks; and
    17    (c)  a  current  certificate  in  basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
    18  which at a minimum must include a certification in basic cardiopulmonary
    19  resuscitation by an online program that has received accreditation  from
    20  the  American Nurses Credentialing Center, the Accreditation Council for
    21  Pharmacy Education (ACPE), or the Accreditation Council  for  Continuing
    22  Medical Education.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02607-01-3
        S. 919                              2

     1    2.  Certified  emergency  medical  technician-paramedics,  with  prior
     2  approval of the department, may administer vaccinations against influen-
     3  za and COVID-19 pursuant to a non-patient specific order and  under  the
     4  medical  direction of a licensed physician; provided that such emergency
     5  medical  technician-paramedics  first  receive training in the following
     6  areas, as determined by the commissioner  after  consultation  with  the
     7  commissioner of education:
     8    (a) techniques, indications, precautions, contraindications, infection
     9  control practices;
    10    (b)  use  of  personal  protective equipment sufficient to provide the
    11  basic level of competence for such tasks; and
    12    (c) a current  certificate  in  basic  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation,
    13  which at a minimum must include a certification in basic cardiopulmonary
    14  resuscitation  by an online program that has received accreditation from
    15  the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the Accreditation Council  for
    16  Pharmacy  Education  (ACPE), or the Accreditation Council for Continuing
    17  Medical Education.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.