S 5478: Expands the emergency medical technician re-certification demonstration program throughout the state; extends the length of such re-certification from five years to seven years.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5478 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, OBERACKER, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding the emergency medical technician re-certification demonstration program throughout the state and extending the length of such re-certification The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The section heading and subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 2 3005-b of the public health law, the section heading and subdivision 1 3 as added by chapter 563 of the laws of 2001, and subdivision 2 as 4 amended by chapter 643 of the laws of 2006, are amended to read as 5 follows: 6 Emergency medical technician [five] seven year re-certification demon- 7 stration program. 1. There is hereby created within the department a 8 demonstration program (referred to in this section as the "program") to 9 allow emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical tech- 10 nicians who have been in continuous practice and who have demonstrated 11 competence in applicable behavioral and performance objectives, to be 12 re-certified for a [five] seven year period. No person shall be re-cer- 13 tified under the program unless [he or she] such person has completed at 14 least one hundred thirty hours of instruction in emergency medical 15 services as approved by the commissioner including but not limited to 16 pediatrics, geriatrics, environmental emergencies, legal issues, emer- 17 gency vehicle operations course and medical emergencies. Renewals of 18 certification under the program shall be deemed equivalent to renewals 19 under subdivision two of section three thousand two of this article. 20 2. The program shall [be limited to persons who are employed by the 21 New York city fire department or who are in practice in the following 22 counties: Delaware, Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Nassau, Otsego, Scho- 23 harie or Suffolk. The commissioner may limit the number of participants 24 in the program, except that such limit shall be no less than four thou- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09690-01-5 
 S. 5478 2 1 sand participants] apply to all emergency medical technicians up for 2 recertification after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of 3 two thousand twenty-five which amended this subdivision. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that 5 the amendments to section 3005-b of the public health law made by 6 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and 7 shall be deemed repealed therewith.