STATE OF NEW YORK
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5844
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 20, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the county law and the administrative code of the city
of New York, in relation to requiring 911 operators to ask callers for
the approximate height and weight of the patient
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 328 of the county law is amended
2 by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) In addition, the board shall adopt and require that all 911 opera-
4 tors who receive an emergency call that requires fire or emergency
5 service personnel to be dispatched to aid a patient, shall ask the call-
6 er for the approximate height and weight of the patient, when practica-
7 ble, and give that information to the fire or emergency service
8 dispatcher. Additionally, in the event such 911 operator transfers the
9 emergency call to fire or emergency service dispatchers prior to obtain-
10 ing the height and weight information of the patient the fire or emer-
11 gency service dispatcher shall ask the caller for the approximate height
12 and weight of the patient, when practicable.
13 § 2. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by
14 adding a new section 14-146 to read as follows:
15 § 14-146 911 emergency call patient information. When a 911 operator
16 receives an emergency call that requires fire or emergency service
17 personnel to be dispatched to aid a patient, the 911 operator shall ask
18 the caller for the approximate height and weight of the patient, when
19 practicable, and give that information to the fire or emergency service
20 dispatcher. In the event the 911 operator transfers the emergency call
21 to fire or emergency service dispatchers prior to obtaining the height
22 and weight information of the patient, the fire or emergency service
23 dispatcher shall ask the caller for the approximate height and weight of
24 the patient, when practicable.
25 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
26 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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