By Patterson S.B. No. 997
74R3094 MLR-D
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.
1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.