Directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of transportation and the New York state emergency medical services council, to promulgate rules and regulations for the operation of ambulances.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5643--A
Cal. No. 371
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 24, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. KLEIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to
the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
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 directing the
commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of
transportation and the New York state emergency medical services coun-
cil, to establish rules and regulations for ambulances
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 12 to read as follows:
3 12. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the commissioner of
4 transportation and the state council, establish rules and regulations
5 for ambulance services in order to ensure the physical safety of passen-
6 gers and the public at large during the transport of such passengers.
7 Such rules and regulations shall include, but shall not be limited to,
8 the allowable number of consecutive hours an ambulance driver may work
9 and the requisite training an ambulance driver shall receive prior to
10 operating an ambulance.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
12 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09581-05-8
