Senate Bill S1990

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires municipalities which receive 4 or more emergency medical calls in 30 day period for an individual to report such calls to the local social services district

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S1990 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5287
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง122-a, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S5727, A9307
2013-2014: S2692, A6006
2017-2018: S541, A5028
2019-2020: S903, A5854
2021-2022: A8480
2023-2024: A2466

2015-S1990 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2015-S1990 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S1990 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1990

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 21, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

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:

  Section 1. The general municipal  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
section 122-a to read as follows:
  S  122-A.  REPORTS  OF FREQUENT EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE CALLS FOR AN
INDIVIDUAL. 1. EVERY COUNTY, CITY, TOWN AND VILLAGE, WHICH RECEIVES  AND
RESPONDS TO FOUR OR MORE CALLS OR DEMANDS FOR THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY
MEDICAL SERVICE, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND
ONE  OF  THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH LAW, TO ANY INDIVIDUAL DURING ANY PERIOD OF
THIRTY DAYS, SHALL REPORT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH SUCH CALL OR  DEMAND
AND  RESPONSE  TO  THE  LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT AND OFFICE OF THE
MEDICAID INSPECTOR GENERAL, IN SUCH FORM AS SHALL BE DETERMINED  BY  THE
COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH.
  2.  EVERY  REPORT  SUBMITTED BY A MUNICIPALITY PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
ONE OF THIS SECTION SHALL INCLUDE SUCH INFORMATION AS SHALL BE  REQUIRED
BY THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, INCLUDING WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL FOR WHOM
EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  SERVICE  IS  BEING  SUMMONED APPEARS TO BE RECEIVING
ADEQUATE CARE AND SUPPORT AT HIS OR HER PLACE OF RESIDENCE, AND  WHETHER
THE SUMMONING OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE APPEARS TO BE UNWARRANTED.
  S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
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


              

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