By: Kubiak H.B. No. 241
73R1505 KLL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the recertification of emergency medical services
1-3 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) medical supervision of advanced life-support
1-19 systems;
1-20 (5) granting, suspending, and revoking a license for
1-21 emergency medical services providers; and
1-22 (6) emergency medical services vehicles.
1-23 SECTION 2. Sections 773.055(a), (b), and (d), Health and
1-24 Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
2-1 (a) A nonrefundable fee must accompany each application for
2-2 examination for emergency medical services personnel certification.
2-3 The fee may not exceed:
2-4 (1) $75 for examination for certification <or
2-5 recertification> of an emergency medical technician-paramedic or
2-6 emergency medical technician-intermediate; or
2-7 (2) $50 for examination for certification <or
2-8 recertification> of an emergency medical technician or emergency
2-9 care attendant.
2-10 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the department
2-11 shall notify each examinee of the results of an examination for
2-12 certification <or recertification> not later than the 30th day
2-13 after the date on which the examination is administered.
2-14 (d) The department shall furnish a person who fails an
2-15 examination for certification <or recertification> with an analysis
2-16 of the person's performance on the examination if requested in
2-17 writing by that person. The board may adopt rules to allow a
2-18 person who fails the examination to retake all or part of the
2-19 examination. A fee of $25 must accompany each application for
2-20 reexamination.
2-21 SECTION 3. Section 773.059, Health and Safety Code, is
2-22 repealed.
2-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-2 passage, and it is so enacted.