Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1568
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
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                  04/17/2021           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Rodriguez) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 232 and 233
    4  insert:
    5         Section 6. Section 395.3042, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         395.3042 Emergency medical services providers; triage and
    8  transportation of heart attack victims to an adult
    9  cardiovascular services provider.—
   10         (1) By June 1 of each year, the department shall send a
   11  list of providers of Level I and Level II adult cardiovascular
   12  services to the medical director of each licensed emergency
   13  medical services provider in this state.
   14         (2) The department shall develop a sample heart attack
   15  triage assessment tool. The department shall post this sample
   16  assessment tool on its website and provide a copy of the
   17  assessment tool to each licensed emergency medical services
   18  provider. Each licensed emergency medical services provider
   19  shall use a heart attack-triage assessment tool that is
   20  substantially similar to the sample heart attack-triage
   21  assessment tool provided by the department.
   22         (3) The medical director of each licensed emergency medical
   23  services provider shall develop and implement assessment,
   24  treatment, and transport-destination protocols for heart attack
   25  patients with the intent to assess, treat, and transport heart
   26  attack patients to the most appropriate hospital. Such protocols
   27  must include the development and implementation of plans for the
   28  triage and transport of patients with acute heart attack
   29  symptoms.
   30         (4) Each emergency medical services provider licensed under
   31  chapter 401 must comply with this section.
   32         Section 7. Present subsections (3) and (4) of section
   33  401.465, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (4)
   34  and (5), respectively, paragraph (d) is added to subsection (1)
   35  and a new subsection (3) is added to that section, and
   36  paragraphs (d) and (j) of subsection (2) of that section are
   37  amended, to read:
   38         401.465 911 public safety telecommunicator certification.—
   39         (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:
   40         (d) “Telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation
   41  training” means specific training, including continuous
   42  education, that is evidence based and contains nationally
   43  accepted guidelines for high-quality telecommunicator
   44  cardiopulmonary resuscitation with the recognition of out-of
   45  hospital cardiac arrest over the telephone and the delivery of
   46  telephonic instructions for treating cardiac arrest and
   47  performing compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
   48         (2) PERSONNEL; STANDARDS AND CERTIFICATION.—
   49         (d) The department shall determine whether the applicant
   50  meets the requirements specified in this section and in rules of
   51  the department and shall issue a certificate to any person who
   52  meets such requirements. Such requirements must include the
   53  following:
   54         1. Completion of an appropriate 911 public safety
   55  telecommunication training program;
   56         2. Certification under oath that the applicant is not
   57  addicted to alcohol or any controlled substance;
   58         3. Certification under oath that the applicant is free from
   59  any physical or mental defect or disease that might impair the
   60  applicant’s ability to perform his or her duties;
   61         4. Submission of the application fee prescribed in
   62  subsection (4) (3);
   63         5. Submission of a completed application to the department
   64  which indicates compliance with subparagraphs 1., 2., and 3.;
   65  and
   66         6. Effective October 1, 2012, passage of an examination
   67  approved by the department which measures the applicant’s
   68  competency and proficiency in the subject material of the public
   69  safety telecommunication training program.
   70         (j)1. The requirement for certification as a 911 public
   71  safety telecommunicator is waived for a person employed as a
   72  sworn state-certified law enforcement officer, provided the
   73  officer:
   74         a. Is selected by his or her chief executive to perform as
   75  a 911 public safety telecommunicator;
   76         b. Performs as a 911 public safety telecommunicator on an
   77  occasional or limited basis; and
   78         c. Passes the department-approved examination that measures
   79  the competency and proficiency of an applicant in the subject
   80  material comprising the public safety telecommunication program.
   81         2. A sworn state-certified law enforcement officer who
   82  fails an examination taken under subparagraph 1. must take a
   83  department-approved public safety telecommunication training
   84  program prior to retaking the examination.
   85         3. The testing required under this paragraph is exempt from
   86  the examination fee required under subsection (4) (3).
   87         (3) TELECOMMUNICATOR CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
   88  TRAINING.—In addition to the certification and recertification
   89  requirements imposed by this section, 911 public safety
   90  telecommunicators who take telephone calls and provide dispatch
   91  functions for emergency medical conditions also shall receive
   92  telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation training every 2
   93  years.
   94  
   95  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   96  And the title is amended as follows:
   97         Delete line 28
   98  and insert:
   99         changes; creating s. 395.3042, F.S.; requiring the
  100         department to send a list of certain providers of
  101         adult cardiovascular services to the medical directors
  102         of licensed emergency medical services providers by a
  103         specified date each year; requiring the department to
  104         develop a sample heart attack-triage assessment tool;
  105         requiring the department to post the sample assessment
  106         tool on its website and provide a copy of it to all
  107         licensed emergency medical services providers;
  108         requiring such providers to use an assessment tool
  109         substantially similar to the one developed by the
  110         department; requiring the medical director of each
  111         licensed emergency medical services provider to
  112         develop and implement certain protocols for heart
  113         attack patients; providing requirements for such
  114         protocols; requiring licensed emergency medical
  115         services providers to comply with certain provisions;
  116         amending s. 401.465, F.S.; defining the term
  117         “telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  118         training”; requiring certain 911 public safety
  119         telecommunicators to receive biannual telecommunicator
  120         cardiopulmonary resuscitation training; amending s.
  121         460.406, F.S.; revising