Bill Text: NY A10631 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of motor vehicles, to establish rules and regulations for the operation of ambulances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-08 - referred to health [A10631 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10631-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10631
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 8, 2016
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Benedetto)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  directing  the
          commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of motor
          vehicles, to establish rules and regulations for ambulances
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 30 to read as follows:
     3    30. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the  commissioner  of
     4  motor  vehicles, establish rules and regulations for ambulances in order
     5  to ensure the safety of passengers and the public at large.  Such  rules
     6  and regulations shall include, but not be limited to, the minimum age of
     7  ambulance  drivers,  the  allowable number of consecutive hours an ambu-
     8  lance driver shall work, and the requisite training an ambulance  driver
     9  shall receive prior to driving any ambulance.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14814-04-6