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- Print number 3975a
- Amend (t) and recommit to health
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Enacts the good samaritan ambulance act of 2014 to allow the provision of ambulance services outside of an agency's primary territory in emergencies
In Assembly Committee · Health · Sponsor Dan Quart
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BILL NUMBER:S3975A
Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the good samaritan ambulance act of 2014
Purpose
To allow the provision of ambulance services outside of an agency's primary territory in emergencies.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 names the legislation the "Good Samaritan Ambulance Act of 2013."
Section 2 amends 3001 of the Public Health Law by adding a new subdivision 22 to define "operate" to mean an ambulance receiving patients. Section 3 amends subdivision 1 of § 3010 of the Public Health Law to establish that an agency receiving a report of a life-threatening medical emergency outside of its primary territory may respond with ambulance services if it believes in good faith that the agency primarily responsibility for the territory will be delayed and that delay may exacerbate the emergency.
Section 4 contains the effective date.
Justification
Emergency ambulance services can often save lives when provided as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, current law prevents many ambulance operators from responding to emergencies outside their primary territory, even when it is clear that the agency primarily responsible for the territory will be delayed and that the emergency will escalate because of this delay. Without legislative clarity that agencies will not be threatened with the loss of their operating certificate, the agencies will not make good faith efforts to intervene outside their primary territory when lives are threatened.
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Effective date
This bill would take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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