SENATE BILL REPORT

                            SB 6027

               AS PASSED SENATE FEBRUARY 1, 1994

Brief Description:  Creating urban emergency medical service districts.

SPONSORS: Senators Winsley, Haugen and McAuliffe

SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Majority Report:  Do pass. 

     Signed by Senators Haugen, Chairman; Drew, Vice Chairman; Loveland, McCaslin, Oke and Winsley.

Staff:  Rod McAulay (786‑7754)

Hearing Dates: January 18, 1994; January 19, 1994

BACKGROUND:

Where a city straddles a county line and one of the counties has established a countywide emergency medical service (EMS) district and the other county has not, a problem arises with regard to providing emergency medical service in that portion of the city which is situated in the county with no countywide EMS district.

SUMMARY:

A city straddling a county line may create an urban emergency medical service (EMS) district in that portion of the city situated in one of the two counties if the county in which the district is created does not have a countywide EMS district and the other county in which the city is located does have a countywide EMS district.

Appropriation:  none

Revenue:  none

Fiscal Note:  none requested

TESTIMONY FOR:

This bill provides a needed solution to a unique problem.

TESTIMONY AGAINST:  None

TESTIFIED:  Stan Finkelstein, AWC (pro)