Bill Text: NY A06683 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a community-based paramedicine demonstration program to operate with the flexibility authorized under Executive Order Number 4 of 2021, and in the same manner and capacity as currently approved for a period of two year.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-06-09 - substituted by s6749b [A06683 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06683-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6683

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 28, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to establishing a
          community-based paramedicine demonstration program; and providing  for
          the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2805-aa to read as follows:
     3    §  2805-aa. Community-based paramedicine demonstration program. 1. The
     4  department shall establish a community-based paramedicine  demonstration
     5  program  to  evaluate the concept of community paramedicine in different
     6  communities in the state.
     7    2. This program shall only allow for mobile integrated  and  community
     8  paramedicine  programs presently operating under the authority of Execu-
     9  tive Order Number 4 of two thousand twenty-one,  entitled  "Declaring  a
    10  Statewide Disaster Emergency Due to Healthcare staffing shortages in the
    11  State  of  New  York"  to  continue  in  the same manner and capacity as
    12  currently approved for a period of five years following  the  expiration
    13  of such executive order.
    14    3. Such program shall include but not be limited to:
    15    (a)  Authorizing EMTs and advance EMTs to provide emergent and non-em-
    16  ergent services within their scope of practice beyond settings currently
    17  authorized.
    18    (b) Permitting emergency medical service personnel to provide communi-
    19  ty paramedicine, use alternative destinations, telemedicine  to  facili-
    20  tate  treatment  of  persons in place, and such other services as may be
    21  approved by the commissioner.
    22    (c)  Authorizing  certified  emergency  medical   technicians   and/or
    23  paramedics   providing   community  paramedicine  services,  with  prior
    24  approval of the department, to administer vaccinations against influenza

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11015-02-3
        A. 6683                             2

     1  and COVID-19 pursuant to  non-patient  specific  orders  and  under  the
     2  medical director or a licensed physician.
     3    4.  The  department  shall  evaluate  and  report on the demonstration
     4  program ninety days after the completion of the demonstration program.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
     6  deemed repealed 5 years after such date; provided, however, that if this
     7  act shall have become a law on or after May 22, 2023 this act shall take
     8  effect  immediately  and  shall be deemed to have been in full force and
     9  effect on and after May 22, 2023.