Provides for licensure of emergency medical responders and emergency medical technicians and certification of mobility assistance vehicle operators; revises requirements for delivery of emergency medical and patient transportation services.
What changed between versions
Electronic patient care report requirement (Section 15) was broadened from covering only 'non-emergent medical transportation' and 'nonemergency health care transportation services' to covering all 'medical transportation' and 'health care transportation services,' removing the non-emergent limitation.
Hospital transfer center data reporting (Section 16) was changed from a standing obligation to one triggered only upon request by the department, and new confidentiality protections were added requiring that reported information be maintained as confidential and not considered a public record under the Open Public Records Act.
A new presumption of compliance mechanism was added to Section 3(1), allowing emergency medical technicians or emergency medical responders to be entitled to a presumption of compliance with commissioner-established rules in certain staffing exception circumstances for non-emergency basic life support units.
The EMS quality study (Section 17) deadline was changed from 18 months after the effective date to 12 months after the department has collected data required by Section 15 for a full 12-month period, meaning the total timeline could extend well beyond 18 months from enactment.
The rulemaking deadline in Section 23 was removed. The original required rules to be adopted within 12 months of the effective date; the reprint version has no fixed deadline and gives the commissioner discretion over what rules are necessary.
New transitional provisions (Section 22(b) and (c)) allow the department to issue temporary certifications, licenses, or approvals to existing EMS providers who notify the department of their intent to apply for renewal or initial licensure under the new requirements, permitting them to continue operations pending review.
Impersonation prohibitions (Section 3) were restructured from a single provision covering all EMS credential types into separate subsections for mobile intensive care paramedics/EMTs (b), emergency medical responders (c), and mobility assistance vehicle operators (d), each with its own licensing or certification standard.
