SENATE BILL No. 929

 

 

April 11, 2018, Introduced by Senator CASPERSON and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

 

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

(MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 20921b.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 20921b. (1) A limited or advanced ambulance operation

 

whose primary service area is in a county or micropolitan area with

 

a population of 10,000 or less and whose primary service area has a

 

population density of fewer than 7 people per square mile may have

 

an ambulance available at less than the limited or advanced level

 

of licensure if both of the following conditions are met:

 

     (a) The medical control authority under which the ambulance

 

operation operates authorizes the lesser availability.

 


     (b) The advanced ambulance operation has department-approved

 

local medical control authority protocols in place.

 

     (2) A basic ambulance operation whose primary service area is

 

in a county or micropolitan area with a population of 10,000 or

 

less and whose primary service area has a population density of

 

fewer than 7 people per square mile may operate at an increased

 

level of licensure when staffed with an EMT-specialist or EMT-

 

paramedic if all of the following conditions are met:

 

     (a) The basic ambulance is equipped at the greater licensure

 

level.

 

     (b) The medical control authority under which the ambulance

 

operation operates authorizes the conditional increased level of

 

licensure.

 

     (c) The basic ambulance operation has department-approved

 

local medical control authority protocols in place.

 

     (3) As used in this section, "micropolitan area" means a

 

micropolitan statistical area as most recently delineated by the

 

United States Office of Management and Budget.