Connecticut 2013 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB06141 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/24/2013

                            General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 6141
January Session, 2013  LCO No. 1737
Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
REP. SANCHEZ, 25th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 6141 

January Session, 2013

LCO No. 1737

Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES 

Introduced by:

REP. SANCHEZ, 25th Dist.

AN ACT ENABLING EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS TO ACQUIRE AND DISTRIBUTE BODY ARMOR TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE PERSONNEL.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to allow organizations providing emergency medical service and employing emergency medical personnel to acquire body armor and to distribute such body armor to such emergency medical personnel. 

Statement of Purpose: 

To allow providers of emergency medical services to purchase and distribute body armor to emergency medical personnel so that these first responders will be protected in crisis situations.