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Senate Bill S5856
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2017-S5856 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A7094
- Current Committee:
- Senate Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §3017, Pub Health L
2017-S5856 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S5856 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the public health law, in relation to emergency medical service in Nassau County PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : This bill would extend certain EMS restrictions to Nassau County. Specifically, it would: 1) Preclude, with some exceptions, EMS providers other than those designated by the local governments from responding to EMS requests; 2) Require all EMS providers to note in advance any fee for services they render; and 3) Require all EMS providers to immediately report emergencies to the publicly operated dispatch authority, to evaluate the need to transport any patient to a hospital, and to comply with the instructions of the dispatching authority. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : This bill extends current EMS restrictions in Suffolk County to cover Nassau County as well.
2017-S5856 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5856 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E May 3, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PHILLIPS -- 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 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.
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