Full Text of SB1644 102nd General Assembly
SB1644 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2021 and 2022 SB1644 Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Darren Bailey SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning emergency medical dispatchers.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems | 5 | | Act is amended by changing Section 3.70 as follows:
| 6 | | (210 ILCS 50/3.70)
| 7 | | Sec. 3.70. Emergency Medical Dispatcher.
| 8 | | (a) "Emergency Medical Dispatcher" means a a person
who | 9 | | has successfully completed a training course in emergency | 10 | | medical
dispatching in accordance with rules
adopted by the | 11 | | Department pursuant to this Act, who accepts
calls from the | 12 | | public for emergency medical services and
dispatches | 13 | | designated emergency medical services personnel
and vehicles. | 14 | | The Emergency Medical Dispatcher must use the
| 15 | | Department-approved
emergency medical dispatch priority | 16 | | reference system (EMDPRS) protocol
selected for use by its | 17 | | agency and approved by its EMS medical director. This
protocol | 18 | | must be used by an emergency medical dispatcher in an | 19 | | emergency
medical dispatch agency to dispatch aid to medical | 20 | | emergencies which includes
systematized caller interrogation | 21 | | questions; systematized prearrival support
instructions; and | 22 | | systematized coding protocols that match the dispatcher's
| 23 | | evaluation of the injury or illness severity with the vehicle |
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| 1 | | response mode and
vehicle response configuration and includes | 2 | | an appropriate training curriculum
and testing process | 3 | | consistent with the specific EMDPRS protocol used by the
| 4 | | emergency medical dispatch agency. Prearrival support | 5 | | instructions shall
be provided in a non-discriminatory manner | 6 | | and shall be provided in accordance
with the EMDPRS | 7 | | established by the EMS medical director of the EMS system in
| 8 | | which the EMD operates. If the dispatcher
operates under the | 9 | | authority of an Emergency Telephone
System Board established | 10 | | under the Emergency Telephone
System Act, the protocols shall | 11 | | be established by such Board
in consultation with the EMS | 12 | | Medical Director.
| 13 | | (b) The Department shall have the authority and
| 14 | | responsibility to:
| 15 | | (1) Require licensure and relicensure of a person who | 16 | | meets the
training and other requirements as an emergency | 17 | | medical dispatcher pursuant to
this Act.
| 18 | | (2) Require licensure and relicensure of a person, | 19 | | organization,
or government agency that operates an | 20 | | emergency medical dispatch agency that
meets
the minimum | 21 | | standards prescribed by the Department for an emergency | 22 | | medical
dispatch agency pursuant to this Act.
| 23 | | (3) Prescribe minimum education and continuing
| 24 | | education
requirements for the
Emergency Medical | 25 | | Dispatcher, which meet standards specified by rules | 26 | | adopted pursuant to this Act.
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| 1 | | (4) Require each EMS Medical Director to report to the | 2 | | Department
whenever
an
action has taken place that may | 3 | | require the revocation or suspension of a license
issued | 4 | | by the Department.
| 5 | | (5) Require each EMD to provide
prearrival
| 6 | | instructions in compliance with protocols selected and | 7 | | approved by the system's
EMS
medical director and approved | 8 | | by the Department.
| 9 | | (6) Require the Emergency Medical Dispatcher
to keep | 10 | | the Department currently informed as to the entity or
| 11 | | agency that employs or supervises his activities as an
| 12 | | Emergency Medical Dispatcher.
| 13 | | (7) Establish an annual relicensure requirement
that | 14 | | requires medical
dispatch-specific continuing education as | 15 | | prescribed by the Department through rules adopted | 16 | | pursuant to this Act.
| 17 | | (8) Approve all EMDPRS protocols used by emergency | 18 | | medical dispatch
agencies to assure compliance with | 19 | | national standards.
| 20 | | (9) Require that Department-approved emergency medical | 21 | | dispatch training
programs are conducted in accordance | 22 | | with national standards.
| 23 | | (10) Require that the emergency medical dispatch | 24 | | agency be operated in
accordance with national standards, | 25 | | including, but not limited to, (i) the use
on every
| 26 | | request for medical assistance of an emergency medical |
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| 1 | | dispatch priority
reference
system (EMDPRS) in accordance | 2 | | with Department-approved policies and procedures
and
(ii) | 3 | | under the approval and supervision of the EMS medical | 4 | | director, the
establishment of
a continuous quality | 5 | | improvement program.
| 6 | | (11) Require that a person may not represent himself | 7 | | or herself, nor may
an
agency or business represent an | 8 | | agent or employee of that agency or business,
as
an | 9 | | emergency medical dispatcher unless licensed by the | 10 | | Department as an
emergency medical dispatcher.
| 11 | | (12) Require that a person, organization, or | 12 | | government agency not
represent itself as an emergency | 13 | | medical dispatch agency unless the person,
organization, | 14 | | or government agency is certified by the Department as an
| 15 | | emergency medical dispatch agency.
| 16 | | (13) Require that a person, organization, or | 17 | | government agency may not
offer
or conduct a training | 18 | | course that is represented as a course for an emergency
| 19 | | medical dispatcher unless the person, organization, or | 20 | | agency is approved by
the Department to offer or conduct | 21 | | that course.
| 22 | | (14) Require that Department-approved emergency | 23 | | medical dispatcher
training programs are conducted by | 24 | | instructors licensed by the Department who:
| 25 | | (i) are, at a minimum, licensed as emergency | 26 | | medical dispatchers;
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| 1 | | (ii) have completed a Department-approved course | 2 | | on methods of
instruction;
| 3 | | (iii) have previous experience in a medical | 4 | | dispatch agency; and
| 5 | | (iv) have demonstrated experience as an EMS | 6 | | instructor.
| 7 | | (15) Establish criteria for modifying or
waiving | 8 | | Emergency Medical Dispatcher requirements based on (i) the | 9 | | scope
and frequency of dispatch activities and the | 10 | | dispatcher's
access to training or (ii) whether the | 11 | | previously-attended dispatcher
training program merits | 12 | | automatic relicensure for the dispatcher.
| 13 | | (16) Charge each Emergency Medical Dispatcher | 14 | | applicant a fee for licensure and license renewal. | 15 | | (c) The Department shall have the authority to suspend, | 16 | | revoke, or refuse to issue or renew the license of an EMD when, | 17 | | after notice and the opportunity for an impartial hearing, the | 18 | | Department demonstrates that the licensee has violated this | 19 | | Act, violated the rules adopted by the Department, or failed | 20 | | to comply with the applicable standard of care. | 21 | | (Source: P.A. 98-973, eff. 8-15-14.)
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