SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 521
89TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BENTLEY.
Pre-filed December 1, 1997, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S2384.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 192.1000, RSMo Supp. 1997, relating to first responder programs, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 192.1000, RSMo Supp. 1997, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 190.375, to read as follows:
190.375. 1. Any county may establish a "First Responder" program to allow the use of automatic external defibrillators by first responders. The county governing body may designate ambulance districts or fire districts to operate the program.
2. The county shall designate the conditions under which automatic external defibrillators may be used by first responders.
[192.1000. 1. Pursuant to this section, a "First Responder" program may be established which will allow the use of automatic external defibrillators by first responders.
2. The program established pursuant to subsection 1 of this section shall be in two stages. The first stage shall be an appropriate pilot project in the following: any county of the first classification which contains a city with a population of one hundred thousand or more inhabitants which adjoins no other county of the first classification; any county of the first classification without a charter form of government which adjoins the state of Kansas and has a population greater than eighty-eight thousand and less than one hundred thousand; any city with a population greater than seventy thousand which is within a county of the first classification without a charter form of government and such county adjoins the Missouri River and adjoins another county of the first classification without a charter form of government; any county of the third classification which adjoins the state of Arkansas but does not adjoin the Mississippi River and has a population greater than eighteen thousand and less than twenty-nine thousand; any county of the third classification with a population greater than twenty-two thousand and less than twenty-five thousand which adjoins a county of the first classification without a charter form of government with a population greater than two hundred thousand and such county of the third classification adjoins five other counties of the third classification; any county of the third classification with a population less than twenty thousand adjoining both the Mississippi River and a county of the second classification; and any county of the third classification which adjoins the state of Arkansas and contains a portion of a lake which has more than three hundred miles of shoreline within the state of Missouri. Following evaluation of the pilot projects, the department of health may make recommendations to the legislature regarding statewide implementation of the first responder early defibrillation.]