Assembly Bill A7094

                            
 
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                                   7094
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 4, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to emergency medical
   service in Nassau County
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Section 3017 of the public health law, as added by chapter
 572 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   § 3017. Emergency medical service, NASSAU AND Suffolk  [county]  COUN-
 TIES.  1.  No  ambulance service or advanced life support first response
 service shall respond to any  call  or  request  for  emergency  medical
 services  within  a  town, village or fire district in NASSAU OR Suffolk
 county that  currently  provides  ambulance  service  or  advanced  life
 support  services first response service, if the municipality has desig-
 nated one or more ambulance services  or  advanced  life  support  first
 response services to respond to such calls unless:
   (a) the service is so designated;
   (b)  the  response is in accordance with a mutual aid plan approved by
 the appropriate regional emergency medical service council;
   (c) the response is to a verbal mutual aid request from  a  designated
 service;
   (d)  the  service was specifically requested to respond by the patient
 or someone acting on behalf of that patient; or
   (e) the response site is a hospital  licensed  under  article  twenty-
 eight of this chapter for a transfer to another such facility.
   2.  Every  ambulance  service  or advanced life support first response
 service shall disclose as part of any solicitation or  advertisement  in
 NASSAU  OR  Suffolk county that there is a fee for services rendered, if
 in fact there is a fee charged for the performance of such service.
   3. Every ambulance service or advanced  life  support  first  response
 service that operates in NASSAU OR Suffolk county and has vehicles which

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD10835-01-7

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 travel through communities with designated ambulance service or advanced
 life  support first response service shall require its drivers and emer-
 gency medical technicians:
   (a)  to  immediately notify a central alarm or other publicly operated
 dispatch entity, or a person designated under section two hundred nine-b
 of the general municipal law to receive calls for emergency services for
 the purpose of dispatching emergency medical services whenever an  emer-
 gency is found in a public place;
   (b) to evaluate the need to transport any patient found in extremis to
 a hospital; and
   (c)  to comply with appropriate instructions from the dispatch entity.
 The dispatch entity, when  appropriate,  may  instruct  the  service  to
 transport any patient to an appropriate hospital.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.