S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5765
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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.