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HB 1977 - This act modifies the laws regarding emergency services. EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS, AMBULANCES AND STRETCHER VANS This act requires all basic life support ambulances and stretcher vans to be equipped with an automated external defibrillator and staffed by at least one person trained in its use. This act also repeals the provision allowing only emergency medical response agencies, fire departments, and fire protection districts to provide certain advanced life support services with emergency medical technicians-intermediate . The act also repeals the provision requiring emergency medical response agencies using emergency medical technicians-intermediate to work in collaboration with an ambulance service providing advanced life support with personnel training at the paramedic level. A temporary emergency medical technician licensee is allowed to practice under the immediate supervision of a licensed emergency medical technicians-intermediate. Employers and supervisors of emergency medical technicians-intermediate are required to cooperate with the Department of Health and Senior Services compliance requirements under the Comprehensive Emergency Medical Services Systems Act. The definition of "emergency medical provider" as it relates to exposure to contagious or infectious diseases is amended to include emergency medical technicians-intermediate. Sections 190.060, 190.092, 190.133, 190.143, 190.196, 190.528, and 191.630 LICENSURE FEES This act requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to promulgate rules requiring licensure and relicensure fees for: (1) Ground Ambulance Services; (2) Air Ambulance Services; (3) Emergency Medical Technicians, for Basic, Intermediate and Paramedic; (4) Emergency Medical Response Agencies; and (5) Accreditation for emergency training entities. Sections 190.108, 190.109, 190.131, 190.133, and 190.142 BLOOD DONATION Under current law, blood donors older than sixteen years of age do not need to acquire parental consent in order to donate blood. This act requires those who are both sixteen and seventeen years of age to obtain parental consent. This act also requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to create a parental consent form that informs parents of donor risks and safety precautions. Section 431.068 This provision is identical to SB 1035 (2010). ADRIANE CROUSE
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