N.Y. Public Health Law § 3005-a: Staffing standards; ambulance services and advanced life support first response services

§ 3005-a. Staffing standards; ambulance services and advanced life

support first response services. 1. The following staffing standards

shall be in effect unless otherwise provided by this section:

(a) effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven the minimum

staffing standard for a registered ambulance service shall be a

certified first responder with the patient;

(b) effective January first, two thousand, the minimum staffing

standard for a voluntary ambulance service shall be an emergency medical

technician with the patient;

(c) the minimum staffing standard for all other ambulance services

shall be an emergency medical technician with the patient; and

(d) the minimum staffing standard for an advanced life support first

response service shall be an advanced emergency medical technician with

the patient. Circumstances permitting other than advanced life support

care by an advanced life support first response service may be

established by rule by the state council, subject to the approval of the

commissioner.

2. Any service granted an exemption by the regional council pursuant

to subdivision five-a of section three thousand three of this article

shall be subject to the standards and terms of the exemption.

3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the effective

date of the standards established by this section shall be delayed by

one year for each fiscal year, prior to January first, two thousand, in

which the amounts appropriated are less than that which would have been

expended pursuant to the provisions of section ninety-seven-q of the

state finance law.