By Berlanga H.B. No. 1432
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the staffing of certain emergency medical services
1-3 vehicles.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Effective September 1, 2000, Section 773.050(a),
1-6 Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Each basic life-support emergency medical services
1-8 vehicle when in service must be staffed by at least two individuals
1-9 certified as emergency medical technicians <care attendants> or
1-10 certified at a higher level of training. This subsection shall not
1-11 apply to counties that rely entirely on an all-volunteer emergency
1-12 medical services staff. This subsection does not apply to a county
1-13 with a population of less than 75,000. This subsection does not
1-14 apply to a medically underserved area.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.