CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 5198
Chapter 17, Laws of 2021
67TH LEGISLATURE
2021 REGULAR SESSION
AMBULANCES IN RURAL AREAS--DRIVER TRAINING
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 25, 2021
Passed by the Senate February 3, 2021 Yeas 48 Nays 1 DENNY HECK
President of the Senate Passed by the House March 24, 2021 Yeas 98 Nays 0 LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of Representatives | CERTIFICATE I, Brad Hendrickson, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5198 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. BRAD HENDRICKSON
Secretary Secretary |
Approved April 7, 2021 3:43 PM | FILED April 7, 2021 |
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
SENATE BILL 5198
Passed Legislature - 2021 Regular Session
State of Washington | 67th Legislature | 2021 Regular Session |
BySenators Schoesler, Dozier, Honeyford, King, Short, and Warnick
Read first time 01/13/21.Referred to Committee on Housing & Local Government.
AN ACT Relating to personnel restrictions on ambulances in rural areas; and amending RCW
18.73.150.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
18.73.150 and 2017 c 70 s 1 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 volunteer or municipal corporations, or by an association made up entirely of two or more municipalities, in a rural area with insufficient personnel may use a driver without any medical or first aid training so long as the driver is at least eighteen years old, successfully passes a background check issued or approved by the department, possesses a valid driver's license with no restrictions, is accompanied by a nondriving emergency medical technician while operating the ambulance during a response or transport of a patient, and only provides medical care to patients to the level that they are trained.
Passed by the Senate February 3, 2021.
Passed by the House March 24, 2021.
Approved by the Governor April 7, 2021.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 7, 2021.
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