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| 3 | 3 | | 2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE |
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| 4 | 4 | | 2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 224 |
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| 5 | 5 | | April 4, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives BORN, BEHNKE, BRANDTJEN, CABRERA, |
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| 6 | 6 | | GREEN, MICHALSKI, NOVAK, O'CONNOR, RETTINGER, ROZAR, SUBECK and MURSAU, |
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| 7 | 7 | | cosponsored by Senators MARKLEIN, BALLWEG, CABRAL-GUEVARA, COWLES, |
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| 8 | 8 | | FELZKOWSKI, NASS and TOMCZYK. Referred to Committee on Health, Aging and |
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| 9 | 9 | | Long-Term Care. |
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| 10 | 10 | | ***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*** |
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| 11 | 11 | | AN ACT to amend 256.15 (4) (a) 3. of the statutes; relating to: ambulance |
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| 12 | 12 | | staffing on aircraft transporting pediatric patients between hospitals. |
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| 13 | 13 | | Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau |
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| 14 | 14 | | This bill modifies ambulance staffing requirements to allow a certified |
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| 15 | 15 | | respiratory care practitioner to fulfill a required staffing position on an ambulance |
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| 16 | 16 | | for the transport of pediatric patients from one hospital to another when the |
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| 17 | 17 | | ambulance is an aircraft. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Current law imposes certain staffing requirements when sick, disabled, or |
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| 19 | 19 | | injured individuals are transported by ambulance, either by air or ground. In |
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| 20 | 20 | | general, under current law, an ambulance may be staffed with any of the following: |
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| 21 | 21 | | any two emergency medical services practitioners, licensed registered nurses, |
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| 22 | 22 | | licensed physician assistants or physicians, or any combination of those individuals; |
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| 23 | 23 | | one emergency medical services practitioner plus one individual with an emergency |
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| 24 | 24 | | medical services practitioner training permit; or, for certain rural ambulance service |
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| 25 | 25 | | providers, one emergency medical technician and one emergency medical responder. |
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| 26 | 26 | | Current law provides an exception to these requirements to allow a certified |
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| 27 | 27 | | respiratory care practitioner to fulfill one of the staffing positions on the ambulance |
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| 28 | 28 | | when the ambulance is a fixed-wing airplane and the patient is a pediatric patient |
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| 29 | 29 | | being transferred from one hospital to another hospital. The bill expands the scope |
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| 33 | 33 | | ASSEMBLY BILL 224 |
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| 34 | 34 | | of that exception to cover any type of aircraft transporting a pediatric patient from |
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| 35 | 35 | | one hospital to another. |
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| 36 | 36 | | The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do |
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| 37 | 37 | | enact as follows: |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTION 1. 256.15 (4) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read: |
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| 39 | 39 | | 256.15 (4) (a) 3. If the ambulance is a fixed-wing airplane an aircraft and the |
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| 40 | 40 | | sick, disabled, or injured individual is a pediatric patient who is being transferred |
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| 41 | 41 | | from one hospital to another hospital, one individual specified in subd. 1. plus one |
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| 42 | 42 | | respiratory care practitioner certified under subch. II of ch. 448. |
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