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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3493 FILED ON: 1/20/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2161 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Michael J. Finn |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act governing not for profit hospital system or service operating an ambulance service. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Michael J. Finn6th Hampden1/20/2023 1 of 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3493 FILED ON: 1/20/2023 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2161 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Finn of West Springfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2161) |
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| 19 | 19 | | of Michael J. Finn for legislation to further regulate emergency or non-emergent medical |
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| 20 | 20 | | transport services. Public Health. |
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| 21 | 21 | | [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEE HOUSE, NO. 2283 OF 2021-2022.] |
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| 23 | 23 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 24 | 24 | | _______________ |
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| 25 | 25 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 26 | 26 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 27 | 27 | | _______________ |
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| 28 | 28 | | An Act governing not for profit hospital system or service operating an ambulance service. |
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| 29 | 29 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 30 | 30 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 31 | 31 | | 1 SECTION XXX. Emergency Medical Services. Notwithstanding the provisions of any |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2regulation, rule or law to the contrary, any not for profit acute care hospital system or service, or |
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| 33 | 33 | | 3provider licensed under Chapter 111 of the General Laws, shall comply with Chapter 111C, |
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| 34 | 34 | | 4Chapter 154 of the Acts of 2003 and Chapter 54 of the Acts of 2000, respectively, in order to |
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| 35 | 35 | | 5administer and operate an emergency or non-emergent medical transport service, so-called, in the |
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| 36 | 36 | | 6Commonwealth; provided, that if any such not for profit hospital system or service that is |
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| 37 | 37 | | 7licensed under Chapter 111 of the General Laws is awarded a 911 contract, so-called, by a |
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| 38 | 38 | | 8municipality, such not for profit hospital system or service shall contribute a minimum of 33% of |
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| 39 | 39 | | 9the gross ambulance receipts toward the cost of such municipality’s fire based service for the |
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| 40 | 40 | | 10purposes of enhancing such city or town’s public safety infrastructure and fire based services; 2 of 2 |
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| 41 | 41 | | 11provided further, that if a not for profit hospital system or service licensed under Chapter 111 of |
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| 42 | 42 | | 12the General Laws is awarded a 911 contract, so-called, by a municipality, not for profit hospital |
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| 43 | 43 | | 13system or service shall pay no less than 50% of the cost to operate the Public Safety Answering |
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| 44 | 44 | | 14Point (PSAP), so-called, in order to support the dispatching of 911 services in such municipality; |
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| 45 | 45 | | 15provided further, that any acute care hospital operating an emergency or non-emergent medical |
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| 46 | 46 | | 16transport service prior to this law shall comply with the provisions of this act. The Department of |
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| 47 | 47 | | 17Public Health shall promulgate regulations to administer the provisions of this section not later |
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| 48 | 48 | | 18than 30 days after the enactment of this law. |
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