Bill Text: NY S05643 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 5643 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of transportation and the New York state emergency medical services council, to promulgate rules and regulations for the operation of ambulances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05643 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05643-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5643--A
            Cal. No. 371
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 24, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  KLEIN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          reported favorably from said committee, ordered to  first  and  second
          report,  ordered  to  a  third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  directing  the
          commissioner  of  health,  in  consultation  with  the commissioner of
          transportation and the New York state emergency medical services coun-
          cil, 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 3011 of the public health law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the  commissioner  of
     4  transportation  and  the  state council, establish rules and regulations
     5  for ambulance services in order to ensure the physical safety of passen-
     6  gers and the public at large during the transport  of  such  passengers.
     7  Such  rules  and regulations shall include, but shall not be limited to,
     8  the allowable number of consecutive hours an ambulance driver  may  work
     9  and  the  requisite  training an ambulance driver shall receive prior to
    10  operating an ambulance.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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