NY State Senate Bill 2017-S5856

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 03, 2018	referred to health
May 03, 2017	referred to health

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) - Summary

Extends certain emergency medical service restrictions to Nassau county.

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.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Chapter 572 of the Laws of 1994 was enacted when Suffolk County
municipalities requested the authority to establish local ordinances
to outlaw for-profit ambulance units from responding to calls for
volunteer emergency medical or ambulance units, which created chaos in
the response of emergency medical services.

Currently, Nassau County is facing extremely similar issue. Emergency
calls are placed to a dispatcher and an ambulance unit is dispatched
only to find that a private for- profit ambulance company has
intercepted the call. This causes an unneeded deployment of resources
and a general confusion of a patient when two ambulances show up at
their door. This legislation will ensure that municipalities can
maintain order for emergency services.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

New bill

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None to the State.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately.

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.

                                                            LBD10835-01-7

 S. 5856                             2
 
 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.

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee

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