Revision: Jan. 22, 2019, 10:20 a.m.
SB 210 - AS INTRODUCED
2019 SESSION
19-0866
01/06
SENATE BILL 210
AN ACT relative to emergency medical and trauma services.
SPONSORS: Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Rep. Sykes, Graf. 13; Rep. Goley, Hills. 8; Rep. Knirk, Carr. 3; Rep. McMahon, Rock. 7
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
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ANALYSIS
This bill makes certain reference changes and adds a definition of "telecommunicators" to the law governing emergency medical and trauma services.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
19-0866
01/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen
AN ACT relative to emergency medical and trauma services.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Emergency Medical and Trauma Services; Critical Incident Intervention and Management. Amend RSA 153-A:17-a, I(f) to read as follows:
(f) "Critical incident stress management team member" or "team member" means an emergency services provider, including any law enforcement officer, sheriff or deputy sheriff, state police officer, civilian law enforcement employee, firefighter, civilian fire department employee, [and] emergency medical personnel, and telecommunicators, specially trained to provide critical incident stress management and crisis intervention services as a member of an organized and registered team.
(g) "Telecommunicator" means an employee of the division of emergency services and communications who is responsible for receiving at the public safety answering point telephone calls made to E911 and transferring or relaying such calls to public or private safety agencies.
2 Emergency Medical and Trauma Services; Critical Incident Intervention and Management. Amend RSA 153-A:17-a, II(b) to read as follows:
(b) All critical incident stress management team members, sworn or civilian, shall be designated by the police chief, sheriff, [commander] director of the division of state police, fire chief, or director of the division of emergency services and communicators.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.