Directs the department of health to collect certain data from relevant entities, and designated public safety answering points to receive 911 service calls, regarding calls and dispatches for emergency medical services; directs the department of health to collect information from counties on the quality of providers of emergency medical services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10953
IN ASSEMBLY
April 14, 2026
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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 directing the
department of health to collect certain data from entities regarding
calls and dispatches for emergency medical services
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 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. a. The department shall collect, from all relevant entities
4 subject to the provisions of this article and from designated public
5 safety answering points to receive 911 service calls in the state,
6 including but not limited to the state police and the office of homeland
7 security, and provide an analysis of the following data elements includ-
8 ing, but not limited to:
9 i. the actual number and percentage of all dispatches for emergency
10 medical services in their primary service operating territory;
11 ii. the actual number and percentage of all dispatches for emergency
12 medical services in their primary service operating territory excluding
13 interfacility non-emergency trips;
14 iii. the number and percentages of dispatches made pursuant to a mutu-
15 al aid agreement, aggregated by city, county, town and village across
16 the state;
17 iv. the timelines and standards for dispatches made pursuant to a
18 mutual aid agreement, aggregated by city, county, town and village
19 across the state;
20 v. the response times for each dispatch for each public service
21 answering point across the state;
22 vi. the number of full-time equivalents for each EMS program agency
23 including paid and volunteer positions;
24 vii. the time dispatch, the time enroute, and time to arrive at the
25 scene of life threatening calls for emergency medical services; and
26 viii. the time dispatch, the time enroute, and time to arrive at the
27 scene of all calls for emergency medical services.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 b. In addition to the provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision,
2 the department shall collect information from each county on the quality
3 of providers of emergency medical services in their respective area.
4 Prior to the collection of such quality information, the department
5 shall convene a group of all the relevant stakeholders to assist with
6 the measurement of quality metrics for emergency management services.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundredth day after it
8 shall have become a law.
