EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; REPORTING REQS S.B. 460 (S-1):
SUMMARY OF BILL
REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE
Senate Bill 460 (Substitute S-1 as reported)
Committee: Health Policy and Human Services
CONTENT
The bill would amend Part 209 (Emergency Medical Services) of the Public Health Code to do the following:
-- Prohibit the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) from requiring a medical first response service to submit data for purposes of the Michigan Emergency Medical Services Information System if the medical first response service were composed of only medical first responders who provide services regulated under the Act without expecting or receiving money, goods, or services in return for providing those services.
-- Require a medical first response service described above to ensure that a medical first responder provided, in writing, certain information related to the scene, the patient's condition, and the treatment provided to the patient to an emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician specialist, or paramedic arriving at the scene.
-- Specify that the bill's provisions would not apply to data collection and sharing required by a medical control authority for quality monitoring and improvement activity or by a medical control authority that had approved extended interventions for medical first responders.
-- Allow LARA to develop and circulate to each medical first response service described above a standardized form that could be used by a medical first responder when providing the required information.
MCL 333.20904 & 333.20910 Legislative Analyst: Tyler VanHuyse
FISCAL IMPACT
The bill would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.
Date Completed: 9-16-19 Fiscal Analyst: Elizabeth Raczkowski
This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.