Directs the department of health to make available a model comprehensive county emergency medical system plan to provide guidance to counties in developing their plans and to review such county plans within a certain period of time; and directs counties, in coordination with their regional emergency medical services councils, to develop and maintain comprehensive county emergency medical system plans that provide for coordinated emergency medical systems within such counties.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
January 6, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the general municipal law, in
relation to directing counties to develop and maintain comprehensive
county emergency medical system plans; and to amend a chapter of the
laws of 2025 amending the general municipal law relating to directing
counties to develop and maintain comprehensive county emergency
medical system plans, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
7501-A and A. 8086-A, 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 public health law is amended by adding a new section
3019 to read as follows:
§ 3019. DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF COMPREHENSIVE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL
SYSTEM PLANS. 1. THE DEPARTMENT, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE STATE EMERGEN-
CY MEDICAL SERVICES COUNCIL, THE REGIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
COUNCILS, OR ANY OTHER GROUP THE DEPARTMENT DEEMS NECESSARY, MAY MAKE
AVAILABLE A MODEL COMPREHENSIVE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SYSTEM PLAN
FORMAT TO HELP PROVIDE GUIDANCE TO COUNTIES TO CONSIDER WHEN DEVELOPING
THEIR COMPREHENSIVE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SYSTEM PLAN REQUIRED PURSU-
ANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO-B OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW.
SUCH MODEL PLAN SHALL BE MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ON THE DEPARTMENT'S
WEBSITE AND OUTLINE THE COMPONENTS OF THE PLAN THAT THE DEPARTMENT DEEMS
MOST EFFECTIVE TO FACILITATE THEIR TIMELY REVIEW AND MEANINGFUL FEEDBACK
ON EACH COUNTY'S PLAN.
2. UPON RECEIPT OF A COUNTY'S COMPREHENSIVE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL
SYSTEM PLAN SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED
TWENTY-TWO-B OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL REVIEW
SUCH PLAN AND PROVIDE WRITTEN FEEDBACK AND ANY RECOMMENDATIONS, WITHIN
SIXTY DAYS OF SUCH PLAN'S SUBMISSION, FOR REVIEW BY THE COUNTY.
§ 2. Subdivision 6 of section 122-b of the general municipal law, as
added by a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the general municipal
law relating to directing counties to develop and maintain comprehensive
county emergency medical system plans, as proposed in legislative bills
numbers S. 7501-A and A. 8086-A, is amended to read as follows:
6. (a) Each county, in coordination with their regional emergency
medical services council, shall convene meetings and a planning process
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