N.Y. Public Health Law Section 3005-B
Emergency medical technician five year re-certification demonstration program

1.

There is hereby created within the department a demonstration program (referred to in this section as the “program”) to allow emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians who have been in continuous practice and who have demonstrated competence in applicable behavioral and performance objectives, to be re-certified for a five year period. No person shall be re-certified under the program unless he or she has completed at least one hundred thirty hours of instruction in emergency medical services as approved by the commissioner including but not limited to pediatrics, geriatrics, environmental emergencies, legal issues, emergency vehicle operations course and medical emergencies. Renewals of certification under the program shall be deemed equivalent to renewals under subdivision two of § 3002 (New York state emergency medical services council)section three thousand two of this article.

2.

The program shall be limited to persons who are employed by the New York city fire department or who are in practice in the following counties: Delaware, Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Nassau, Otsego, Schoharie or Suffolk. The commissioner may limit the number of participants in the program, except that such limit shall be no less than four thousand participants.

3.

Within a year after implementing the program and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall report to the governor and the legislature on the impact of the program on the quality of patient care and the effectiveness of the program in retaining and recruiting certified emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians.

4.

The commissioner, in consultation with the state emergency medical services council, shall make regulations necessary to implement this section. * NB Repealed July 1, 2028

Source: Section 3005-B — Emergency medical technician five year re-certification demonstration program, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PBH/3005-B (updated Jul. 7, 2023; accessed Apr. 13, 2024).

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Declaration of policy and statement of purpose 3000–A
Emergency medical treatment 3000–B
Automated external defibrillators: Public access providers 3000–C
Epinephrine auto-injector devices 3000–D
Availability of resuscitation equipment in certain public places 3000–E
Rescue inhaler treatment devices 3000–F
Automated external defibrillator 3001
Definitions 3002
New York state emergency medical services council 3002–A
State emergency medical advisory committee 3003
Regional emergency medical services councils 3003–A
EMS program agencies 3003–B
Availability of ambulance service that provides transportation by aircraft to store and distribute blood and initiate and administer bloo... 3004
Emergency medical services system and agency performance standards 3004–A
Regional emergency medical advisory committees 3005
Ambulance service certificates 3005–A
Staffing standards 3005–B
Emergency medical technician five year re-certification demonstration program 3006
Quality improvement program 3006–A
Patient privacy 3007
Notice of alternative destination 3008
Applications for determinations of public need 3009
Continuation of existing services 3010
Area of operation 3011
Powers and duties of the department and the commissioner 3012
Enforcement 3013
Immunity from liability 3014
Construction 3015
Separability 3016
Continuance of rules and regulations 3017
Emergency medical service, Suffolk county 3018
Community-based paramedicine demonstration program 3020
Recruitment and retention 3030
Advanced life support services 3031
Advanced life support system 3032
State emergency medical services task force 3033
Rules and regulations 3034
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Accessed:
Apr. 13, 2024

Last modified:
Jul. 7, 2023

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