House Bill 1739c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998             CS/HB 1739

        By the Committee on Health Care Standards & Regulatory
    Reform and Representatives Saunders, Lippman and Tobin





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to poison control; amending s.

  3         395.1027, F.S., and creating s. 401.268, F.S.;

  4         requiring each basic and advanced life support

  5         service and air ambulance service to develop

  6         and implement a prehospital emergency dispatch

  7         protocol with the appropriate regional poison

  8         control center; providing that the regional

  9         poison control centers shall assume

10         responsibility and liability for calls

11         transferred in accordance with the protocol;

12         providing an effective date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  Subsection (4) is added to section

17  395.1027, Florida Statutes, to read:

18         395.1027  Regional poison control centers.--

19         (4)  By October 1, 1999, each regional poison control

20  center shall develop a prehospital emergency dispatch protocol

21  with each licensee defined by s. 401.23(13) in the geographic

22  area covered by the regional poison control center. The

23  prehospital emergency dispatch protocol shall be developed by

24  each licensee's medical director in conjunction with the

25  designated regional poison control center responsible for the

26  geographic area in which the licensee operates. The protocol

27  shall define toxic substances and describe the procedure by

28  which the designated regional poison control center may be

29  consulted by the licensee. If a call is transferred to the

30  designated regional poison control center in accordance with

31  the protocol established under this section and s. 401.268,

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  1  the designated regional poison control center shall assume

  2  responsibility and liability for the call.

  3         Section 2.  Section 401.268, Florida Statutes, is

  4  created to read:

  5         401.268  Protocols with regional poison control

  6  centers.--By October 1, 1999, each licensee shall implement a

  7  prehospital emergency dispatch protocol with the regional

  8  poison control center established pursuant to s. 395.1027. The

  9  prehospital emergency dispatch protocol shall be developed by

10  the licensee's medical director in conjunction with the

11  designated regional poison control center responsible for the

12  geographic area in which the licensee operates. The protocol

13  shall define toxic substances and describe the procedure by

14  which the designated regional poison control center may be

15  consulted by the licensee. If a call is transferred to the

16  regional poison control center in accordance with the protocol

17  established under this section and s. 395.1027, the regional

18  poison control center shall assume responsibility and

19  liability for the call.

20         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1 of the

21  year in which enacted.

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