FINAL BILL REPORT

HB 1626

                                  C 104 L 88

BYRepresentatives Braddock, Ballard, Brooks, Moyer and Kremen

Amending emergency medical service provisions.

House Committe on Health Care

Senate Committee on Health Care & Corrections

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

Emergency medical personnel provide emergency medical care and treatment to persons at the scene of an accident or to patients being transported to medical facilities.  Emergency medical personnel are not liable for acts of ordinary negligence that occur while rendering pre-hospital emergency medical care, but this immunity from liability does not apply to the emergency care of patients transported between hospitals.

SUMMARY:

Emergency medical personnel are not liable for acts of ordinary negligence that occur while rendering emergency care of patients transported between hospitals.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      House 96   0

      Senate    47     0

EFFECTIVE:March 16, 1988