This bill addresses ground ambulance interfacility transport services.
This bill:
- grants authority to and requires municipalities and counties to ensure that a minimum level of ground ambulance interfacility transport services are provided within the respective municipality or county;
- removes the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services Management (bureau) from involvement in the process by which a municipality or county selects emergency medical service providers, except verifying and providing notice that an applicant emergency medical service provider meets minimum requirements;
- recognizes the bureau's jurisdiction to discipline non-911 ambulance service providers;
- requires a county or municipality to:
offer a first right to provide interfacility transports to the current 911 ambulance service provider;conduct formal reviews of 911 service providers and interfacility transport service providers;
- grants investigative authority to the bureau;
- makes it a class B misdemeanor to willfully disobey a valid subpoena or cease and desist letter from the bureau; and
- makes technical changes.Statutes affected:
Introduced: 11-48-103
Substitute #1: 11-48-103