Florida Senate - 2021 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 1568
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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The Committee on Appropriations (Rodriguez) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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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.
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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