Bill Text: IL HB5816 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. In a provision requiring a covered vehicle service provider to document and report specified information when the covered vehicle service provider treats an actual or suspected opioid overdose, defines "covered vehicle service provider" as a licensed vehicle service provider (instead of a licensed vehicle service provider that is a municipality with a population of 1,000,000 or greater).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-16 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5816 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5816-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5816 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Kelly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 50/3.233
Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. In a provision requiring a covered vehicle service provider to document and report specified information when the covered vehicle service provider treats an actual or suspected opioid overdose, defines "covered vehicle service provider" as a licensed vehicle service provider (instead of a licensed vehicle service provider that is a municipality with a population of 1,000,000 or greater).
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems
Act is amended by changing Section 3.233 as follows:
(210 ILCS 50/3.233)
Sec. 3.233. Opioid overdose reporting.
(a) In this Section:
"Covered vehicle service provider" means a licensed
vehicle service provider that is a municipality with a
population of 1,000,000 or greater.
"Covered vehicle service provider personnel" means
individuals licensed by the Department as an EMT, EMT-I,
A-EMT, or EMT-P who are employed by a covered vehicle service
provider.
"Opioid" means any narcotic containing opium or one or
more of its natural or synthetic derivatives.
"Overdose" means a physiological event that results in a
life-threatening emergency to an individual who ingested,
inhaled, injected, or otherwise bodily absorbed an opioid.
(b) Covered vehicle service provider personnel who treat
and either release or transport to a health care facility an
individual experiencing a suspected or an actual overdose

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shall document in the patient's care report the information
specified in subsection (c) within 24 hours of the initial
reporting of the incident.
(c) A patient care report of an overdose made under this
Section shall include:
(1) the date and time of the overdose;
(2) the location in latitude and longitude, to no more
than 4 decimal places, where the overdose victim was
initially encountered by the covered vehicle service
provider personnel;
(3) whether one or more doses of an opioid overdose
reversal drug were administered; and
(4) whether the overdose was fatal or nonfatal when
the overdose victim was initially encountered by the
covered vehicle service provider personnel and during the
transportation of the victim to a health care facility.
(d) Upon receipt of a patient care report that documents
an overdose, a covered vehicle service provider shall report
the information listed under subsection (c) to:
(i) the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug
Trafficking Area Overdose Detection Mapping Application;
or
(ii) any similar information technology platform with
secure access operated by the federal government or a unit
of state or local government, as determined by the covered
vehicle service provider.

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