By: Barrientos S.B. No. 184
73R2179 RWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of certain air transfer vehicles as
1-3 emergency medical services vehicles.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 773.004(a), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) This chapter does not apply to:
1-8 (1) a ground <or air> transfer vehicle and staff used
1-9 to transport a patient who is under a physician's care between
1-10 medical facilities or between a medical facility and a private
1-11 residence;
1-12 (2) ground or air transfer that does not advertise as
1-13 an ambulance service and that is not licensed by the department;
1-14 (3) the use of ground or air transfer vehicles to
1-15 transport sick or injured persons in a casualty situation that
1-16 exceeds the basic vehicular capacity or capability of emergency
1-17 medical services providers in the area;
1-18 (4) an industrial ambulance; or
1-19 (5) a physician, registered nurse, or other health
1-20 care practitioner licensed by this state unless the health care
1-21 practitioner staffs an emergency medical services vehicle
1-22 regularly.
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-24 However, a person is not required to obtain a license required
2-1 under this Act until January 1, 1994.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.