S-0453.1
SENATE BILL 5751
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State of Washington | 65th Legislature | 2017 Regular Session |
By Senator Schoesler
Read first time 02/08/17. Referred to Committee on Health Care.
AN ACT Relating to personnel requirements for municipal ambulance services; and amending RCW
18.73.150.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 18.73.150 and 1992 c 128 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)(a) Any ambulance operated as such shall operate with sufficient personnel for adequate patient care, at least one of whom shall be an emergency medical technician under standards promulgated by the secretary. The emergency medical technician shall have responsibility for its operation and for the care of patients both before they are placed aboard the vehicle and during transit. If there are two or more emergency medical technicians operating the ambulance, a nondriving medical technician shall be in command of the vehicle. The emergency medical technician in command of the vehicle shall be in the patient compartment and in attendance to the patient.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the driver of the ambulance shall have at least a certificate of advance first aid qualification recognized by the secretary pursuant to RCW
18.73.120 unless there are at least two certified emergency medical technicians in attendance of the patient, in which case the driver shall not be required to have such certificate.
(2) With approval from the department, an ambulance service established by a municipal corporation with insufficient personnel may use a driver without any medical or first aid training so long as the driver is at least seventeen years old, possesses a valid driver's license with no restrictions, is accompanied by a nondriving emergency medical technician while operating the ambulance, and does not provide any medical care to patients.
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