Requires any municipality which receives and responds to 4 or more calls for emergency medical service for an individual to report the circumstances of such calls to the local social services district and the office of the medicaid inspector general.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5287
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 17, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO, BARCLAY, HAWLEY -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to directing
municipalities to submit a report to the local social services
district on the circumstances surrounding the summoning of emergency
medical services on four or more occasions for any individual during a
thirty day period of time
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new
2 section 122-a to read as follows:
3 § 122-a. Reports of frequent emergency medical service calls for an
4 individual. 1. Every county, city, town and village, which receives and
5 responds to four or more calls or demands for the provision of emergency
6 medical service, as defined in subdivision one of section three thousand
7 one of the public health law, to any individual during any period of
8 thirty days, shall report the circumstances of each such call or demand
9 and response to the local social services district and office of the
10 medicaid inspector general, in such form as shall be determined by the
11 commissioner of health.
12 2. Every report submitted by a municipality pursuant to subdivision
13 one of this section shall include such information as shall be required
14 by the commissioner of health, including whether the individual for whom
15 emergency medical service is being summoned appears to be receiving
16 adequate care and support at his or her place of residence, and whether
17 the summoning of emergency medical service appears to be unwarranted.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
19 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06026-01-5
