Florida Senate - 2010                            (NP)    SB 2360
       
       
       
       By Senator Crist
       
       
       
       
       12-02241-10                                           20102360__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to Hillsborough County; amending
    3         chapter 2001-299, Laws of Florida, relating to the
    4         Public Transportation Commission; redefining the terms
    5         “basic life support ambulance” and “wrecker”;
    6         clarifying provisions; providing an effective date.
    7  
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    9  
   10         Section 1. Subsections (1) and (34) of section 3 of chapter
   11  2001-299, Laws of Florida, are amended to read:
   12         Section 3. Definitions.—As used in this act:
   13         (1) “Basic life support ambulance” means any privately or
   14  publicly owned vehicle, except those operated by any
   15  municipality, that is designed, constructed, reconstructed,
   16  maintained, equipped, or operated for and is used for or
   17  intended to be used for transportation of a sick or injured
   18  person persons requiring or likely to require medical attention
   19  during transport by a qualified person persons through the use
   20  of techniques such as patient assessment, cardiopulmonary
   21  resuscitation, splinting, obstetrical assistance, bandaging,
   22  administration of oxygen, application of medical anti-shock
   23  trousers, administration of a subcutaneous injection using a
   24  premeasured autoinjector of epinephrine to a person suffering an
   25  anaphylactic analyphylactic reaction, and other techniques
   26  described in the Emergency Medical Technician Basic Training
   27  Course Curriculum of the United States Department of
   28  Transportation or the Florida Department of Health and the
   29  requirements of chapter 401, Florida Statutes.
   30         (34) “Wrecker” means any truck or other privately owned
   31  motor driven vehicle that is used to tow, carry, or otherwise
   32  transport motor vehicles or vessels upon the streets and
   33  highways of this state and that is equipped for that purpose
   34  with a boom, winch, car carrier, or other similar equipment and
   35  is in the recovery, towing, or removal of wrecked, disabled,
   36  stolen, and abandoned motor vehicles and contracted for use by,
   37  through, or for any unit of local, county, or state government,
   38  and is not authorized to transport passengers for hire. The term
   39  includes any person regularly engaged in towing or storing
   40  vehicles or vessels in Hillsborough County pursuant to section
   41  715.07, Florida Statutes.
   42         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.