A 10953: Directs the department of health to collect certain data from relevant entities, and designated public safety answering points to receive 911 service calls, regarding calls and dispatches for emergency medical services; establishes reporting requirements.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10953  IN ASSEMBLY April 14, 2026 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the department of health to collect certain data from entities regarding calls and dispatches for emergency medical services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3011 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 3 1-a. a. The department shall collect, from all relevant entities 4 subject to the provisions of this article and from designated public 5 safety answering points to receive 911 service calls in the state, 6 including but not limited to the state police and the office of homeland 7 security, and provide an analysis of the following data elements includ- 8 ing, but not limited to: 9 i. the actual number and percentage of all dispatches for emergency 10 medical services in their primary service operating territory; 11 ii. the actual number and percentage of all dispatches for emergency 12 medical services in their primary service operating territory excluding 13 interfacility non-emergency trips; 14 iii. the number and percentages of dispatches made pursuant to a mutu- 15 al aid agreement, aggregated by city, county, town and village across 16 the state; 17 iv. the timelines and standards for dispatches made pursuant to a 18 mutual aid agreement, aggregated by city, county, town and village 19 across the state; 20 v. the response times for each dispatch for each public service 21 answering point across the state; 22 vi. the number of full-time equivalents for each EMS program agency 23 including paid and volunteer positions; 24 vii. the time dispatch, the time enroute, and time to arrive at the 25 scene of life threatening calls for emergency medical services; and 26 viii. the time dispatch, the time enroute, and time to arrive at the 27 scene of all calls for emergency medical services. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15381-04-6 
 A. 10953 2 1 b. In addition to the provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision, 2 the department shall collect information from each county on the quality 3 of providers of emergency medical services in their respective area. 4 Prior to the collection of such quality information, the department 5 shall convene a group of all the relevant stakeholders to assist with 6 the measurement of quality metrics for emergency management services. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundredth day after it 8 shall have become a law.