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                                   3106
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 27, 2023
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 Introduced  by Sens. MANNION, OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  expanding  the
   emergency  medical  technician  re-certification demonstration program
   throughout the state and extending the length  of  such  re-certifica-
   tion; and to amend chapter 563 of the laws of 2001 amending the public
   health law relating to providing for an emergency technician five year
   re-certification   demonstration   program  in  certain  counties,  in
   relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  section  heading and subdivisions 1 and 2 of section
 3005-b of the public health law, the section heading and  subdivision  1
 as  added  by  chapter  563  of  the  laws of 2001, and subdivision 2 as
 amended by chapter 643 of the laws of  2006,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   Emergency medical technician [five] SEVEN year re-certification demon-
 stration  program.    1. There is hereby created within the department a
 demonstration program (referred to in this section as the "program")  to
 allow emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical tech-
 nicians  who  have been in continuous practice and who have demonstrated
 competence in applicable behavioral and performance  objectives,  to  be
 re-certified  for a [five] SEVEN year period. No person shall be re-cer-
 tified under the program unless he or she has  completed  at  least  one
 hundred  thirty  hours  of  instruction in emergency medical services as
 approved by the commissioner including but not  limited  to  pediatrics,
 geriatrics,  environmental  emergencies, legal issues, emergency vehicle
 operations course and medical  emergencies.  Renewals  of  certification
 under  the program shall be deemed equivalent to renewals under subdivi-
 sion two of section three thousand two of this article.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   2. The program shall [be limited to persons who are  employed  by  the
 New  York  city  fire department or who are in practice in the following
 counties: Delaware, Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Nassau, Otsego,  Scho-
 harie  or Suffolk. The commissioner may limit the number of participants
 in  the program, except that such limit shall be no less than four thou-
 sand participants] APPLY TO ALL EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  TECHNICIANS  UP  FOR
 RECERTIFICATION  AFTER  THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE CHAPTER OF THE LAWS OF
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE WHICH AMENDED THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. Section 2 of chapter 563 of the laws of 2001 amending the  public
 health  law  relating to providing for an emergency technician five year
 re-certification demonstration program in certain counties,  as  amended
 by chapter 102 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed [July] JANUARY 1, [2023] 2025.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
 the  amendments  to  section  3005-b  of  the  public health law made by
 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section  and
 shall be deemed repealed therewith.