N.Y. Public Health Law § 3005-b: Emergency medical technician five year re-certification demonstration program

* § 3005-b. Emergency medical technician five year re-certification

demonstration program. 1. There is hereby created within the department

a demonstration program (referred to in this section as the "program")

to allow emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical

technicians who have been in continuous practice and who have

demonstrated competence in applicable behavioral and performance

objectives, to be re-certified for a five year period. No person shall

be re-certified under the program unless he or she has completed at

least one hundred thirty hours of instruction in emergency medical

services as approved by the commissioner including but not limited to

pediatrics, geriatrics, environmental emergencies, legal issues,

emergency vehicle operations course and medical emergencies. Renewals of

certification under the program shall be deemed equivalent to renewals

under subdivision two of section three thousand two of this article.

2. The program shall be limited to persons who are employed by the New

York city fire department or who are in practice in the following

counties: Delaware, Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Nassau, Otsego,

Schoharie or Suffolk. The commissioner may limit the number of

participants in the program, except that such limit shall be no less

than four thousand participants.

3. Within a year after implementing the program and annually

thereafter, the commissioner shall report to the governor and the

legislature on the impact of the program on the quality of patient care

and the effectiveness of the program in retaining and recruiting

certified emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical

technicians.

4. The commissioner, in consultation with the state emergency medical

services council, shall make regulations necessary to implement this

section.

* NB Repealed July 1, 2028