Chapter 221 |
2019 -- H 6169 SUBSTITUTE A Enacted 07/15/2019 |
A N A C T |
RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES |
Introduced By: Representatives Fellela, O'Brien, Ucci, and Costantino |
Date Introduced: May 30, 2019 |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
SECTION 1. Sections 23-4.1-2 of the General Laws in Chapter 23-4.1 entitled |
"Emergency Medical Transportation Services" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
23-4.1-2. Ambulance service coordinating advisory board. |
(a) The ambulance service coordinating advisory board is hereby created and shall consist |
of twenty-five (25) members appointed as set out in this section. The governor shall appoint the |
members of the board as follows: (1) Two (2) from the department of health One mayor, town |
administrator, town manager, or other municipal official recommended by the senate president; |
(2) Seven (7) Eight (8) practicing, licensed emergency medical technicians as follows: three (3) |
from a full-time, paid department, who shall be recommended from the Rhode Island State |
Association of Fire Fighters, IAFF, AFL-CIO; two (2) who are active E.M.S. administrators, one |
recommended by the Rhode Island Association of Fire Chiefs and one recommended by the |
Rhode Island State Firemen's League from a volunteer fire department; one and two (2) |
recommended by the senate president; and one recommended by the speaker of the house and |
one recommended by the senate president; (3) One from the R.I. Hospital Association; (4) One |
from the R.I. Medical Society; (5) One from the R.I. chapter of the American College of |
Surgeons, committee on trauma; (6) One from the R.I. chapter of the American College of |
Emergency Physicians; (7) One from the Rhode Island chapter of the American Academy of |
Pediatrics; (8) Two (2) from a professional ambulance service; (9) Two (2) from the general |
public; (10) Two (2) from Providence county who are active members of a public ambulance |
service or fire department rescue squad unit, one from a full-time paid department and one from a |
volunteer department; (11) Four (4), one each from the counties of Kent, Newport, Bristol, and |
Washington, who shall be members of a public ambulance service or a fire department rescue |
squad; and (12) One certified, emergency nurse in current practice who is a member of the |
Emergency Room Nurses Association. The members of the board shall be chosen and shall hold |
office for five (5) years and until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. In the |
month of February in each year, the governor shall appoint successors to the members of the |
board whose terms shall expire in that year, to hold office until the first day of March in the fifth |
(5th) year after their appointment and until their respective successors are appointed and |
qualified. Any vacancy that may occur in the board shall be filled by appointment for the |
remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment. Each member |
may designate a representative to attend in his or her absence by notifying the chair prior to that |
meeting of the board. The board shall meet at least quarterly and to elect its officers annually. |
(b) The division of emergency medical services of the department of health shall provide |
staff support to the board. |
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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