Assembly Bill A7356

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to staffing standards for employees performing emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city with a population of over one million people

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A7356 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6698
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3005-a, Pub Health L

2025-A7356 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Sets minimum staffing standards for employees performing emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city with a population of over one million people.

2025-A7356 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7356
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to staffing standards
   for employees performing emergency medical services in the 911  system
   in a city with a population of over one million people

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3005-a of the public  health  law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  445 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. The following staffing standards shall be in effect  unless  other-
 wise provided by this section:
   (a) effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven the minimum
 staffing  standard  for a registered ambulance service shall be a certi-
 fied first responder with the patient;
   (b) effective January first, two thousand, the minimum staffing stand-
 ard for a voluntary ambulance service  shall  be  an  emergency  medical
 technician with the patient;
   (c)  THE  MINIMUM  STAFFING STANDARD FOR AMBULANCE UNITS RESPONDING TO
 CALLS FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES IN THE 911 SYSTEM IN A CITY WITH  A
 POPULATION  OF OVER ONE MILLION PEOPLE SHALL BE (I) A TEAM OF TWO CERTI-
 FIED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; OR (II)  A  TEAM  OF  TWO  CERTIFIED
 ADVANCED  EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS. THE MINIMUM STANDARD FOR STAFF-
 ING SUPERVISORS' VEHICLES RESPONDING  TO  CALLS  FOR  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL
 SERVICES  IN  THE  911  SYSTEM  IN  A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF OVER ONE
 MILLION PEOPLE SHALL BE A TEAM OF ONE SUPERVISOR WHO IS CERTIFIED EITHER
 AS AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN OR AS AN ADVANCED  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL
 TECHNICIAN,  PAIRED  WITH  ONE CERTIFIED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN OR
 ADVANCED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN;
   (D) the minimum staffing standard for  all  other  ambulance  services
 shall be an emergency medical technician with the patient; and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11189-01-5

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