General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 5526
February Session, 2012 *_____HB05526PH____033012____*
General Assembly
Substitute Bill No. 5526
February Session, 2012
*_____HB05526PH____033012____*
AN ACT CONCERNING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD AND AN EMERGENCY SERVICES POLICY COUNCIL.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsections (a) and (b) of section 19a-178a of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes are repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(a) There is established within the Department of Public Health an Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board.
(b) [The] (1) Prior to October 1, 2012, the advisory board shall consist of members appointed in accordance with the provisions of this [subsection] subdivision and shall include the Commissioner of Public Health and the department's emergency medical services medical director, or their designees. The Governor shall appoint the following members: One person from each of the regional emergency medical services councils; one person from the Connecticut Association of Directors of Health; three persons from the Connecticut College of Emergency Physicians; one person from the Connecticut Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons; one person from the Connecticut Medical Advisory Committee; one person from the Emergency Department Nurses Association; one person from the Connecticut Association of Emergency Medical Services Instructors; one person from the Connecticut Hospital Association; two persons representing commercial ambulance providers; one person from the Connecticut Firefighters Association; one person from the Connecticut Fire Chiefs Association; one person from the Connecticut Chiefs of Police Association; one person from the Connecticut State Police; and one person from the Connecticut Commission on Fire Prevention and Control. An additional eighteen members shall be appointed as follows: Three by the president pro tempore of the Senate; three by the majority leader of the Senate; four by the minority leader of the Senate; three by the speaker of the House of Representatives; two by the majority leader of the House of Representatives and three by the minority leader of the House of Representatives. The appointees shall include a person with experience in municipal ambulance services; a person with experience in for-profit ambulance services; three persons with experience in volunteer ambulance services; a paramedic; an emergency medical technician; an advanced emergency medical technician; three consumers and four persons from state-wide organizations with interests in emergency medical services as well as any other areas of expertise that may be deemed necessary for the proper functioning of the advisory board.
(2) On and after October 1, 2012, the advisory board shall consist of members appointed in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision and shall include the director of the Department of Public Health's Office of Emergency Medical Services. The Governor shall appoint the following members: One person from the Connecticut College of Emergency Physicians; one person from the Emergency Nurses Association; one person from the Connecticut Society of EMS Instructors; one person from the Connecticut Fire Chiefs Association; one person from the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association; one person with experience in volunteer ambulance services; one person from the Association of Connecticut Ambulance Providers; one Connecticut representative of the American College of Surgeons' Regional Committees on Trauma; one person from the American Academy of Pediatrics Connecticut chapter; one person from a regional emergency communications center; one person employed in a quality assurance position at a hospital with not more than one hundred beds; and one person employed in a quality assurance position at a hospital with more than one hundred beds.
Sec. 2. (Effective from passage) The Office of Emergency Medical Services, established pursuant to section 19a-178 of the general statutes, shall study the establishment of an emergency services policy council. Not later than January 1, 2013, the office shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public health concerning the results of such study. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, recommendations concerning the emergency services policy council's potential role in (1) training and certification of emergency medical technicians, and (2) the development of emergency services policies, procedures and clinical protocols.
Sec. 3. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 19a-178a of the general statutes, as amended by this act, and section 2 of this act, said sections shall not be construed to limit the requirement that a receiving hospital develop and implement a process for patients being presented to the hospital through the emergency medical service system.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage 19a-178a(a) and (b)
Sec. 2 from passage New section
Sec. 3 from passage New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
19a-178a(a) and (b)
Sec. 2
from passage
New section
Sec. 3
from passage
New section
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