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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

SB 24

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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

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Harsdorf (R) , Moulton (R) , Nass (R) , Olsen (R) , Petrowski (R) , Ringhand (D)

7 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Bernier (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Mursau (R) , Shankland (D) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R)

Full history

  1. Feb 8, 2017 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Moulton, Harsdorf, Nass, Olsen, Petrowski and Ringhand; cosponsored by Representatives Loudenbeck, Shankland, Anderson, Bernier, Mursau and Spiros

  2. Feb 8, 2017 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services

  3. Feb 9, 2017 · Senate

    Representative Steffen added as a cosponsor

  4. Apr 6, 2017 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Mar 28, 2018 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1