Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

25.0331.01000
     Sixty-ninth
     Legislative Assembly                    SENATE BILL NO. 2100
     of North Dakota
     Introduced by
       Senator Beard
       Representatives Fegley, Richter
1    A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact section 23-27-04.3 of the North Dakota Century Code,
2    relating to emergency medical services personnel training.
3    BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
4        SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Section 23-27-04.3 of the North Dakota Century Code is
5    amended and reenacted as follows:
6        23-27-04.3. Emergency medical services personnel training, testing, certification,
7    licensure, and quality review - Penalty.
8        1.   The department of health and human services shall adopt rules prescribing minimum
9             training, testing, certification, licensure, and quality review standards for emergency
10            medical services personnel, including community emergency medical services
11            personnel, instructors, and training institutions.
12       2.   Rules adopted must include a definition of minimum applicable standards, a definition
13            of emergency medical services personnel, provide for a mechanism for certifying or
14            licensing persons who have met the required standards, provide a mechanism to
15            review and improve the quality of care rendered by emergency medical services
16            personnel, and define minimum standards for emergency medical services training
17            institutions.
18       3.   Rules adopted must allow emergency medical services instructors to provide direct,
19            entry-level certification training for the levels of emergency medical responder and
20            emergency medical technician, under the oversight of the department and without the
21            requirements of an emergency medical services training institute.
22       4.   Licensing as an emergency medical services training institution is optional.
23       5.   It is a class B misdemeanor for an individual to willfully misrepresent that individual's
24            certification or licensing status as emergency medical services personnel.
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1       6.   Quality review and improvement information, data, records, and proceedings are not
2            subject to subpoena or discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil action.
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Statutes affected: 
PREFILED: 23-27-04.3