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SENATE BILL NO. 284
BY SENATOR LUNEAU
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 40:1133.14(E) and (F), relative to emergency medical services
3 protocols; to repeal provisions regarding the Disaster and Emergency Medical
4 Services Committee of the Louisiana State Medical Society; and to provide for
5 related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 40:1133.14(E) and (F) are hereby amended and reenacted to read as
8 follows:
9 ยง1133.14. Duties of emergency medical personnel
10 A.(1) A licensed emergency medical services practitioner may perform any
11 of the following functions:
12 * * *
13 E. In the event that there is no organized or functional local parish medical
14 society in a parish of the state, the provisions of this Section which require the
15 approval of an emergency medical service protocol by the local parish medical
16 society or its designee may be performed by a parish or multiparish medical society
17 which is adjacent or contiguous to the parish without an organized or functional local
18 parish medical society. In the absence of such adjacent or contiguous parish or
19 multiparish medical society, the district medical society shall approve an emergency
20 medical service protocol for the parish without an organized or functional local
21 parish medical society. In the event the district medical society does not approve an
22 emergency medical service protocol for the parish without an organized or functional
23 local parish medical society, the disaster and emergency medical services committee
24 of the Louisiana State Medical Society shall approve an emergency medical service
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1 protocol for the parish without an organized or functional local parish medical
2 society.
3 F. The department shall promulgate rules and regulations establishing basic
4 guidelines for statewide emergency medical service protocols. Such rules and
5 regulations shall be based on the recommendations of the Louisiana State Medical
6 Society's disaster and emergency medical services committee, which shall serve as
7 an advisory committee to the department for this purpose.
8 Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not
9 signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature
10 by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If
11 vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become
12 effective on the day following such approval.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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