2019 -- S 0951 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2019 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION | |
SERVICES | |
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Introduced By: Senators Conley, Lombardo, Ciccone, Lombardi, and Algiere | |
Date Introduced: June 05, 2019 | |
Referred To: Senate Health & Human Services | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Sections 23-4.1-2 and 23-4.1-7 of the General Laws in Chapter 23-4.1 |
2 | entitled "Emergency Medical Transportation Services" are hereby amended to read as follows: |
3 | 23-4.1-2. Ambulance service coordinating advisory board. |
4 | (a) The ambulance service coordinating advisory board is hereby created and shall consist |
5 | of twenty-five (25) members appointed as set out in this section. The governor shall appoint the |
6 | members of the board as follows: (1) Two (2) from the department of health municipal officials, |
7 | including, but not limited to, mayors, town administrators, and town managers, one of whom |
8 | shall be recommended by the president of the senate, and one of whom shall be recommended by |
9 | the speaker of the house; (2) Seven (7) practicing, licensed emergency medical technicians as |
10 | follows: three (3) from a full-time, paid department, who shall be recommended from the Rhode |
11 | Island State Association of Fire Fighters, IAFF, AFL-CIO; two (2) who are active E.M.S. |
12 | administrators, one recommended by the Rhode Island Association of Fire Chiefs and one |
13 | recommended by the Rhode Island State Firemen's League from a volunteer fire department; one |
14 | recommended by the senate president; and one recommended by the speaker of the house; (3) |
15 | One from the R.I. Hospital Association; (4) One from the R.I. Medical Society; (5) One from the |
16 | R.I. chapter of the American College of Surgeons, committee on trauma; (6) One from the R.I. |
17 | chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians; (7) One from the Rhode Island |
18 | chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics; (8) Two (2) from a professional ambulance |
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1 | service; (9) Two (2) from the general public; (10) Two (2) from Providence county who are |
2 | active members of a public ambulance service or fire department rescue squad unit, one from a |
3 | full-time paid department and one from a volunteer department; (11) Four (4), one each from the |
4 | counties of Kent, Newport, Bristol, and Washington, who shall be members of a public |
5 | ambulance service or a fire department rescue squad; and (12) One certified, emergency nurse in |
6 | current practice who is a member of the Emergency Room Nurses Association. The members of |
7 | the board shall be chosen and shall hold office for five (5) years and until their respective |
8 | successors are appointed and qualified. In the month of February in each year, the governor shall |
9 | appoint successors to the members of the board whose terms shall expire in that year, to hold |
10 | office until the first day of March in the fifth (5th) year after their appointment and until their |
11 | respective successors are appointed and qualified. Any vacancy that may occur in the board shall |
12 | be filled by appointment for the remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as the |
13 | original appointment. Each member may designate a representative to attend in his or her absence |
14 | by notifying the chair prior to that meeting of the board. The board shall meet at least quarterly |
15 | and to elect its officers annually. |
16 | (b) The division of emergency medical services of the department of health shall provide |
17 | staff support to the board. |
18 | 23-4.1-7. Standards for ambulance license. |
19 | (a) The director of health shall issue regulations to govern the standards of suitability of |
20 | ambulances for the transportation of patients from the standpoint of health, sanitation, safety, |
21 | communications, maintenance, on-board medical equipment, safety equipment, extraction |
22 | equipment, ambulance markings, garaging conditions, and care and condition of the ambulance |
23 | and its equipment, and to govern minimum financial capacity of private ambulance service |
24 | providers. |
25 | (b) If a proposed regulation would result in additional mandated costs to local |
26 | government, as defined in ยง 45-13-7, the final regulation shall not be adopted until after the |
27 | senate committee on health and human services and the house committee on health, education |
28 | and welfare have held public hearings to assess the proposals. |
29 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION | |
SERVICES | |
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1 | This act would replace two (2) employees from the department of health with two (2) |
2 | municipal officials on the ambulance service coordinating advisory board. It would also require |
3 | senate and house committees to hold public hearings concerning proposed department of health |
4 | regulations for ambulance license standards. |
5 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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