5018 AMH LJ H2928.1

SB 5018 - H COMM AMD ADOPTED 4-8-97

By Committee on Law & Justice

    Beginning on page 1, after line 5, strike all material through page 2, line 26, and insert the following:

    "Sec. 1.  RCW 18.71.210 and 1995 c 65 s 4 and 1995 c 103 s 1 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

    No act or omission of any physician's trained emergency medical service intermediate life support technician and paramedic, as defined in RCW 18.71.200, or any emergency medical technician or first responder, as defined in RCW 18.73.030, done or omitted in good faith while rendering emergency medical service under the responsible supervision and control of a licensed physician or an approved medical program director or delegate(s) to a person who has suffered illness or bodily injury shall impose any liability upon:

    (1) The physician's trained emergency medical service intermediate life support technician and paramedic, emergency medical technician, or first responder;

    (2) The medical program director;

    (3) The supervising physician(s);

    (4) Any hospital, the officers, members of the staff, nurses, or other employees of a hospital;

    (5) Any training agency or training physician(s);

    (6) Any licensed ambulance service; or

    (7) Any federal, state, county, city or other local governmental unit or employees of such a governmental unit.

    This section shall apply to an act or omission committed or omitted in the performance of the actual emergency medical procedures and not in the commission or omission of an act which is not within the field of medical expertise of the physician's trained emergency medical service intermediate life support technician and paramedic, emergency medical technician, or first responder, as the case may be.

    This section shall apply also, as to the entities and personnel described in subsections (1) through (7) of this section, to any act or omission committed or omitted in good faith by such entities or personnel in rendering services at the request of an approved medical program director in the training of emergency medical service ((medical)) personnel for certification or recertification pursuant to this chapter.

    This section shall not apply to any act or omission which constitutes either gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.

                         EXPLANATORY NOTE

RCW 18.71.210 was amended twice by the 1995 legislature.  Chapter 65 s 4 revised the classifications for emergency medical service personnel and chapter 103 s 1 revised the liability immunity for emergency medical service personnel and their supervisors.  The purpose of this bill is to give effect to both amendments by reenacting the section including both amendments and making technical corrections."

SB 5018 - H COMM AMD

By Committee on Law & Justice

    On page 1, line 2 of the title, after "reenacting and amending RCW" insert "18.71.210,"

    On page 1, line 3 of the title, after "57.08.050" insert "," and after "RCW" strike "18.71.210,"

EFFECT:  Makes additional technical corrections requested by the department of health.

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