By: Uresti  S.B. No. 1033
         (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 2007; March 14, 2007, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
  April 16, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 16, 2007,
  sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1033 By:  Shapleigh
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to emergency medical services.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 773.004, Health and
  Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  This chapter does not apply to:
               (1)  [a ground transfer vehicle and staff used to
  transport a patient who is under a physician's care between medical
  facilities or between a medical facility and a private residence,
  unless it is medically necessary to transport the patient using a
  stretcher;
               [(2)]  air transfer that does not advertise as an
  ambulance service and that is not licensed by the department;
               (2) [(3)]  the use of ground or air transfer vehicles
  to transport sick or injured persons in a casualty situation that
  exceeds the basic vehicular capacity or capability of emergency
  medical services providers in the area;
               (3) [(4)]  an industrial ambulance; or
               (4) [(5)]  a physician, registered nurse, or other
  health care practitioner licensed by this state unless the health
  care practitioner staffs an emergency medical services vehicle
  regularly.
         SECTION 2.  Section 773.041, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  A person may not transport a patient by stretcher in a
  vehicle unless the person holds a license as an emergency medical
  services provider issued by the department in accordance with this
  chapter.  For purposes of this subsection, "person" means an
  individual, corporation, organization, government, governmental
  subdivision or agency, business, trust, partnership, association,
  or any other legal entity.
         SECTION 3.  Not later than November 1, 2007, the executive
  commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
  adopt the rules necessary to implement the changes in law made by
  this Act to Chapter 773, Health and Safety Code.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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