Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes minimum staffing standards for emergency medical services in New York.

Highlights:

• Requires ambulance units responding to calls for emergency medical services in a city with a population of over one million to be staffed by a team of at least two certified emergency medical technicians or advanced emergency medical technicians (Sec. 1).

• Requires supervisors’ vehicles responding to calls for emergency medical services in a city with a population of over one million to be staffed by a team of one supervisor and one staff member, each of whom are certified as an emergency medical technician or advanced emergency medical technician (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that the first provision detailed above takes effect upon passage, and the second provision detailed above takes effect one year after this Act becomes law (Sec. 2).

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