By Maxey H.B. No. 765
75R3761 SKB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to specialized emergency medical services provider
1-3 qualifications.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 773.045, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (c) and
1-7 (d) to read as follows:
1-8 (b) A rotor or fixed-wing aircraft and staff that is based
1-9 in Texas and used to transport a patient by stretcher [and that
1-10 advertises as an air ambulance service] is required to be licensed
1-11 by the department.
1-12 (c) A rotor or fixed-wing aircraft and staff based
1-13 out-of-state used to pick up a patient in this state to transport
1-14 the patient by stretcher is required to be licensed by the
1-15 department. This subsection does not apply to a rotor or
1-16 fixed-wing aircraft and staff based out-of-state used only to
1-17 deliver a patient from outside of this state into this state.
1-18 (d) A rotor or fixed-wing aircraft and staff that advertises
1-19 in this state as an air ambulance service shall include information
1-20 on the physical location of its operations in any advertisements
1-21 for air ambulance service.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.