HB397 Alabama 2016 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Emergency Medical Control Committee, membership, voting, EMS Advisory Board abolished, Sec. 22-18-5 repealed; Secs. 22-18-3, 22-18-40 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, the EMS Advisory Board advises the Board of Health on emergency medical services. Also the State Emergency Medical Control Committee assists the Board of Health in formulating rules and policies concerning emergency medical services</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would abolish the EMS Advisory Board and would add eight additional members to the State Emergency Medical Control Committee. One of the additional members would be a physician appointed by the Alabama Hospital Association and the others would be licensed paramedics appointed by various groups involved in emergency medical services. The bill would also specify that each member of the State Emergency Medical Control Committee would have voting privileges</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to emergency medical services; to amend Sections 22-18-3 and 22-18-40 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to delete references to the EMS Advisory Board and to add eight members to the State Emergency Medical Control Committee; to specify that each member of the State Medical Emergency Control Committee would have voting privileges; and to repeal Section 22-18-5, Code of Alabama 1975, providing for the EMS Advisory Board. </p>

Subjects

Health