Bill Text: NH HB559 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to staffing requirements in emergency medical transport vehicles.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs House Journal 3 [HB559 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB559-Introduced.html

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HB 559  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0875

05/11

 

HOUSE BILL 559

 

AN ACT relative to staffing requirements in emergency medical transport vehicles.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Rhodes, Ches. 17; Rep. A. Murray, Hills. 20; Rep. D. Mannion, Rock. 25; Rep. Thackston, Ches. 12; Rep. Wheeler, Hills. 33; Rep. Proulx, Hills. 15

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that not more than one emergency medical care provider shall be required to provide care to a patient during transport in an ambulance or other emergency medical service vehicle.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0875

05/11

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to staffing requirements in emergency medical transport vehicles.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Emergency Medical and Trauma Services; Rulemaking; Emergency Medical Care Provider Requirements.  Amend RSA 153-A:20, III to read as follows:

III.  Necessary equipment and staffing for emergency medical service vehicles, including standards of suitability for such vehicles used in the transportation of patients in relation to health, sanitation, safety, communications, maintenance, on-board medical equipment, safety equipment, extrication equipment, markings, garaging conditions, and care and condition of the emergency medical service vehicle and its equipment; provided that not more than one emergency medical care provider shall be required to attend to a patient during transport by an emergency medical service vehicle.  

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.