Chapter 162

2007 -- H 5457 SUBSTITUTE A

Enacted 06/30/07

A N A C T

RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

Introduced By: Representatives Ginaitt, Lewiss, and Naughton

Date Introduced: February 27, 2007

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 23-4.1-2 of the General Laws in Chapter 23-4.1 entitled

"Emergency Medical Transportation Services" is hereby amended to read as follows:

23-4.1-2. Ambulance service coordinating advisory board. -- (a) The ambulance

service coordinating advisory board is created consisting of twenty (20) twenty-three (23)

members appointed as set out in this section. The governor shall appoint the members of the

board as follows: Two (2) from the department of health; four (4) five (5) practicing licensed

emergency medical technicians; three (3) from a full time paid department who shall be

recommended from the Rhode Island State Association of Fire Fighters, IAFF, AFL-CIO, and

one from a volunteer department and two (2) who are active E.M.S. administrators, one

recommended from the Rhode Island Association of Fire Chiefs and one recommended from the

Rhode Island State Firemen's League from a volunteer fire department; one from the R.I. Hospital

Association; one from the R.I. Medical Society; one from the R.I. chapter of the American

College of Surgeons, committee on trauma; one from the R.I. chapter of the American College of

Emergency Physicians; one from the Rhode Island chapter of the American Academy of

Pediatrics; one two (2) from the a professional ambulance service; two (2) from the general

public; two (2) from Providence county who are active members of a public ambulance service or

fire department rescue squad unit, one from a full time paid department and one from a volunteer

department; four (4), one each from the counties of Kent, Newport, Bristol and Washington, who

shall be members of a public ambulance service or a fire department rescue squad and one

certified emergency nurse in current practice who is a member of the Emergency Room Nurses

Association. The members of the board shall be chosen and shall hold office for five (5) years,

and until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. In the month of February in each

year, the governor shall appoint successors to the members of the board whose terms shall expire

in that year, to hold office until the first day of March in the fifth (5th) year after their

appointment and until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. Any vacancy that

may occur in the board shall be filled by appointment for the remainder of the unexpired term in

the same manner as the original appointment. Each member may designate a representative to

attend in his or her absence by notifying the chair prior to that meeting of the board. The board

shall meet at least quarterly and to elect its officers annually.

      (b) The division of emergency medical services of the department of health shall provide

staff support to the board.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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