PREVETERINARY EMERGENCY CARE
Summary
Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Provides that emergency medical (EMS) personnel may provide preveterinary emergency care to a dog or cat to the extent the EMS personnel have received commensurate training and are authorized by their employer to provide care. Provides that requirements governing the circumstances under which EMS personnel may provide preveterinary emergency care to dogs and cats may be specified in the employer's policies governing the provision of care. Contains language stating that nothing in the Act imposes upon EMS personnel any obligation to provide care to a dog or cat or to provide care to a dog or cat before a person. Amends the Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. Provides that nothing in that Act shall apply to EMS personnel who provide preveterinary emergency care to a dog or cat under the amended provisions of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Effective immediately.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
May 2023
House Passage
Mar 2023
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 22, 2023
Last action May 5, 2023
Floor votes · House Mar 21, 2023
How they voted
109–0
Passed · 7 other
Total votes 116
Mar 21, 2023
D
Democratic76
94% Yea
R
Republican40
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
17
Key actions
3
Committee
7
May 5, 2023
Committee
Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
lower
Apr 28, 2023
Lower · Passed
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 6, 2023
lower
Apr 26, 2023
Committee
Assigned to Health and Human Services
lower
Mar 22, 2023
Committee
Referred to Assignments
lower
Mar 22, 2023
Introduced
Arrive in Senate
lower
Mar 21, 2023
Lower · Passed
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 110-000-000
lower
Mar 9, 2023
Lower · Passed
Do Pass / Short Debate Police & Fire Committee; 013-000-000
lower
Feb 28, 2023
Committee
Assigned to Police & Fire Committee
lower
Feb 15, 2023
Committee
Referred to Rules Committee
lower
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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