H.B. No. 241
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to standards for continuing education and recertification
1-3 of emergency medical services personnel.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 773.050(b), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The board by rule shall establish minimum standards for:
1-8 (1) staffing an advanced life-support emergency
1-9 medical services vehicle, a mobile intensive-care unit, or a
1-10 specialized emergency medical services vehicle;
1-11 (2) emergency medical services personnel certification
1-12 and performance, including certification, decertification,
1-13 recertification, suspension, emergency suspension, and probation;
1-14 (3) the approval of courses and training programs, the
1-15 certification of program instructors, examiners, and course
1-16 coordinators for emergency medical services personnel training, and
1-17 the revocation and probation of an approval or certification;
1-18 (4) continuing education programs and examinations of
1-19 emergency medical services personnel;
1-20 (5) medical supervision of advanced life-support
1-21 systems;
1-22 (6) <(5)> granting, suspending, and revoking a license
1-23 for emergency medical services providers; and
1-24 (7) <(6)> emergency medical services vehicles.
2-1 SECTION 2. Sections 773.055(a), (b), and (d), Health and
2-2 Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
2-3 (a) A nonrefundable fee must accompany each application <for
2-4 examination> for emergency medical services personnel
2-5 certification. The fee may not exceed:
2-6 (1) $75 for examination for certification <or
2-7 recertification> of an emergency medical technician-paramedic or
2-8 emergency medical technician-intermediate; <or>
2-9 (2) $50 for examination for certification <or
2-10 recertification> of an emergency medical technician or emergency
2-11 care attendant;
2-12 (3) $75 for recertification of an emergency medical
2-13 technician-paramedic or emergency medical technician-intermediate;
2-14 or
2-15 (4) $50 for recertification of an emergency medical
2-16 technician or emergency care attendant.
2-17 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the department
2-18 shall notify each examinee of the results of an examination for
2-19 certification <or recertification> not later than the 30th day
2-20 after the date on which the examination is administered.
2-21 (d) The department shall furnish a person who fails an
2-22 examination for certification <or recertification> with an analysis
2-23 of the person's performance on the examination if requested in
2-24 writing by that person. The board may adopt rules to allow a
2-25 person who fails the examination to retake all or part of the
2-26 examination. A fee of $25 must accompany each application for
2-27 reexamination.
3-1 SECTION 3. Section 773.059(a), Health and Safety Code, is
3-2 amended to read as follows:
3-3 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person applying
3-4 for recertification whose application is received after the
3-5 expiration date of the person's certificate must pay a late fee of
3-6 $25 <in addition to the examination fee>.
3-7 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-13 passage, and it is so enacted.