Sets minimum staffing standards for employees performing emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city with a population of over one million people.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6698--A
Cal. No. 1389
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 20, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, MARTINEZ, SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Health -- 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 staffing standards
for employees performing emergency medical services in the 911 system
in a city with a population of over one million people
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3005-a of the public health law,
2 as amended by chapter 445 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. The following staffing standards shall be in effect unless other-
5 wise provided by this section:
6 (a) effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven the minimum
7 staffing standard for a registered ambulance service shall be a certi-
8 fied first responder with the patient;
9 (b) effective January first, two thousand, the minimum staffing stand-
10 ard for a voluntary ambulance service shall be an emergency medical
11 technician with the patient;
12 (c) (i) the minimum staffing standard for ambulance units responding
13 to calls for emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city with
14 a population of over one million people shall be (1) a team of two
15 certified emergency medical technicians; or (2) a team of two certified
16 advanced emergency medical technicians.
17 (ii) the minimum standard for staffing supervisors' vehicles respond-
18 ing to calls for emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city
19 with a population of over one million people shall be a team of one
20 supervisor who is certified either as an emergency medical technician or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 as an advanced emergency medical technician, paired with one certified
2 emergency medical technician or advanced emergency medical technician;
3 (d) the minimum staffing standard for all other ambulance services
4 shall be an emergency medical technician with the patient; and
5 [(d)] (e) the minimum staffing standard for an advanced life support
6 first response service shall be an advanced emergency medical technician
7 with the patient. Circumstances permitting other than advanced life
8 support care by an advanced life support first response service may be
9 established by rule by the state council, subject to the approval of the
10 commissioner.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however, that
12 subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 3005-a of
13 the public health law as added by section one of this act shall take
14 effect 1 year after it shall have become a law.
