§ 3005-A — Staffing standards; ambulance services and advanced life support first response services

§ 3005-a. Staffing standards; ambulance services and advanced life\nsupport first response services. 1. The following staffing standards\nshall be in effect unless otherwise provided by this section:\n (a) effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven the minimum\nstaffing standard for a registered ambulance service shall be a\ncertified first responder with the patient;\n (b) effective January first, two thousand, the minimum staffing\nstandard for a voluntary ambulance service shall be an emergency medical\ntechnician with the patient;\n (c) the minimum staffing standard for all other ambulance services\nshall be an emergency medical technician with the patient; and\n (d) the minimum staffing standard for an advanced life support first\nresponse service shall be an advanced emergency medical technician with\nthe patient. Circumstances permitting other than advanced life support\ncare by an advanced life support first response service may be\nestablished by rule by the state council, subject to the approval of the\ncommissioner.\n 2. Any service granted an exemption by the regional council pursuant\nto subdivision five-a of section three thousand three of this article\nshall be subject to the standards and terms of the exemption.\n 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the effective\ndate of the standards established by this section shall be delayed by\none year for each fiscal year, prior to January first, two thousand, in\nwhich the amounts appropriated are less than that which would have been\nexpended pursuant to the provisions of section ninety-seven-q of the\nstate finance law.\n