CHAPTER NUMBER: 201 
File Code: Health  Occupations
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 1052/96 - ECM
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 440  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Senators Middleton and Amoss
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Emergency Medical Services - Licensure of Providers - Transfer of
Authority
 
Repealing the authority of the State Board of Physician Quality
Assurance relating to persons providing specified emergency medical
services; transferring the authority to the Emergency Medical Services
Board (EMS Board); requiring a person to be licensed or certified by
the EMS Board before providing emergency medical services; making
exceptions; specifying powers and duties of the EMS Board; creating
the EMS Board Provider Fund; requiring specified complaints to be
referred to the State Board of Nursing; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/31
 - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
 - 2/5
 - Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/17
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
 - 3/18
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/20
 - Third Reading Passed (47-0)
 - 4/5
 - Senate Concur - House Amendments
 -      Third Reading Passed (47-0)
 -      Passed Enrolled
 - 4/29
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 201
 
House Action
- 3/20
 - First Reading Environmental Matters
 - 3/24
 - Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/2
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
 - 3/29
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/31
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-1)
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Senator Thomas McLain Middleton, District 28
 - Senator William H. Amoss, District 35
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
 - DISCIPLINE
 - EMERGENCIES -see also- AMBULANCES; RESCUE SQUADS
 - FEES -see also- DEVELOPMENT FEES AND TAXES
 - GOOD SAMARITAN
 - HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
 - LIABILITY -see also- GOOD SAMARITAN
 - LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES LICENSES
 - NURSES
 - PHYSICIANS
 - RESCUE SQUADS -see also- AMBULANCES; EMERGENCIES
 - RULES AND REGULATIONS
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Courts and Judicial Proceedings
 - (
 5-309 
)
 -   Education
 - (
 13-510 ,
 13-515 ,
 13-516 
)
 -   Health Occupations
 - (
 14-301 ,
 14-303 ,
 14-305 ,
 14-306 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF) 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- Senate
 - Number: 724900/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 18, 1997     at: 11:55
 Status: Adopted         
 - House 
 - Number: 119179/2 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 2, 1997      at: 10:34
 Status: Adopted