Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 59

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Relating to: terminology change and corrections for emergency medical technicians and first responders.

Health services, department of — Health Medical service — Occupations

Introduced, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill changes the terminology for emergency medical technicians. The term

“first responder" changes to “emergency medical responder." The term “emergency

medical technician — basic" changes to “emergency medical technician." The term

“emergency medical technician — intermediate" does not change. The term

“advanced emergency medical technician” is added to reflect the level currently in

the Department of Health Services rules known as “emergency medical technician

— intermediate technician.” The term “emergency medical technician — paramedic"

changes to “paramedic." The term “emergency medical technician" currently refers

collectively to emergency medical technicians — basic, emergency medical

technicians — intermediate, and emergency medical technicians — paramedic, and

that term changes to “emergency medical services practitioner" under the bill and

includes advanced emergency medical technicians.

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 12, Noes 0

Passed 12–0 Mar 1, 2017 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Health and Human Services, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Apr 26, 2017 official source full page