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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7320
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)
AN ACT CONCERNING EM ERGENCY AIR AMBULANCE SERVICES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2019) Not later than January 1, 1
2020, and annually thereafter, any institution licensed pursuant to 2
chapter 368v of the general statutes shall report to the Commissioner 3
of Public Health regarding each instance during the prior year in 4
which the institution utilized an emergency air ambulance service to 5
transport a patient. For each instance, such report shall identify the 6
emergency air ambulance service utilized, specify whether the 7
emergency air ambulance service that was utilized is the primary 8
service area responder, as defined in section 19a-175 of the general 9
statutes, and the amount the emergency air ambulance service charged 10
to the patient for the emergency transport. For the purposes of this 11
section, "emergency air ambulance service" means an organization 12
whether public, private or voluntary that utilizes aircraft specially 13
constructed, modified or equipped for the primary purposes of 14
responding to emergency calls and transporting by air critically ill or 15
injured patients. 16 Raised Bill No. 7320
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require all health care institutions to report to the Commissioner of
Public Health regarding the use of emergency air ambulance services.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]