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S 6698: Sets minimum staffing standards for employees performing emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city with a population of over one million people.
What S 6698 does, verified October 17, 2025
The bill aims to improve staffing standards for emergency medical services in 911 systems in cities with over one million people. The minimum staffing standards for different types of ambulance services are established. Registered ambulance services must have a certified first responder with the patient. Voluntary ambulance services must have an emergency medical technician with the patient. For emergency medical services in cities with over one million people, the minimum staffing standard is a team of two certified emergency medical technicians or two certified advanced emergency medical technicians. Supervisors' vehicles responding to emergency medical services must have a team of one supervisor paired with one certified emergency medical technician or advanced emergency medical technician. For all other ambulance services, the minimum staffing standard is an emergency medical techni…
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Last action: VETOED MEMO.51 (2025-10-16)Alert me
Quick answers about S 6698
- What is the current status of S 6698?
- As of October 17, 2025, S 6698 is recorded as "Vetoed": it passed both houses but was vetoed by the Governor. The last recorded action, on October 16, 2025, was "VETOED MEMO.51".
- Did S 6698 pass?
- S 6698 passed both houses, but the Governor vetoed it. A veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in each house, which is rare.
- Who wrote S 6698, and where is it now?
- S 6698 was authored by Sen. Robert Jackson with 2 coauthors.
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| Oct. 16, 2025 | VETOED MEMO.51 |
| Oct. 09, 2025 | DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR |
| Jun. 13, 2025 | referred to ways and means |
| Jun. 13, 2025 | returned to senate |
| Jun. 13, 2025 | passed assembly |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, March 20, 2025 · 445 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6698 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- 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 staffing standards for employees performing emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city with a population of over one million people The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3005-a of the public health law, 2 as amended by chapter 445 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. The following staffing standards shall be in effect unless other- 5 wise provided by this section: 6 (a) effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven the minimum 7 staffing standard for a registered ambulance service shall be a certi- 8 fied first responder with the patient; 9 (b) effective January first, two thousand, the minimum staffing stand- 10 ard for a voluntary ambulance service shall be an emergency medical 11 technician with the patient; 12 (c) the minimum staffing standard for ambulance units responding to 13 calls for emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city with a 14 population of over one million people shall be (i) a team of two certi- 15 fied emergency medical technicians; or (ii) a team of two certified 16 advanced emergency medical technicians. The minimum standard for staff- 17 ing supervisors' vehicles responding to calls for emergency medical 18 services in the 911 system in a city with a population of over one 19 million people shall be a team of one supervisor who is certified either 20 as an emergency medical technician or as an advanced emergency medical 21 technician, paired with one certified emergency medical technician or 22 advanced emergency medical technician; 23 (d) the minimum staffing standard for all other ambulance services 24 shall be an emergency medical technician with the patient; and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11189-01-5S. 6698 2 1 [(d)] (e) the minimum staffing standard for an advanced life support 2 first response service shall be an advanced emergency medical technician 3 with the patient. Circumstances permitting other than advanced life 4 support care by an advanced life support first response service may be 5 established by rule by the state council, subject to the approval of the 6 commissioner. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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