New York S 10434: Directs the department of health to collect certain data from relevant entities regarding calls and dispatches for emergency medical services

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S10434 Summary:

BILL NOS10434 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10953-B

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SPONSORHINCHEY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3011, Pub Health L

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Directs the department of health to collect certain data from relevant entities, and designated public safety answering points to receive 911 service calls, regarding calls and dispatches for emergency medical services; establishes reporting requirements.

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BILL NOS10434 

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05/15/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10434

 IN SENATE

 May 15, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the
 department of health to collect certain data from entities regarding
 calls and dispatches for emergency medical services

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 3011 of the public health law is amended by adding
 2 a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
 3 1-a. a. The department shall collect, from all relevant entities
 4 subject to the provisions of this article and from designated public
 5 safety answering points to receive 911 service calls in the state,
 6 including but not limited to the state police and the office of homeland
 7 security, and provide an analysis of the following data elements includ-
 8 ing, but not limited to:
 9 (i) the actual number and percentage of all dispatches for emergency
 10 medical services in their primary service operating territory;
 11 (ii) the actual number and percentage of all dispatches for emergency
 12 medical services in their primary service operating territory excluding
 13 interfacility non-emergency trips;
 14 (iii) the number and percentages of dispatches made pursuant to a
 15 mutual aid agreement, aggregated by city, county, town and village
 16 across the state;
 17 (iv) the timelines and standards for dispatches made pursuant to a
 18 mutual aid agreement, aggregated by city, county, town and village
 19 across the state;
 20 (v) the response times for each dispatch for each public service
 21 answering point across the state;
 22 (vi) the number of full-time equivalents for each EMS program agency
 23 including paid and volunteer positions;
 24 (vii) the time dispatch, the time en route, and time to arrive at the
 25 scene of life threatening calls for emergency medical services; and
 26 (viii) the time dispatch, the time en route, and time to arrive at the
 27 scene of all calls for emergency medical services.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15381-08-6

 S. 10434 2

 1 b. (i) Within twelve months of the effective date of this subdivision,
 2 and annually thereafter, the department shall submit a report summariz-
 3 ing information collected pursuant to this subdivision to the governor,
 4 the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly.
 5 Such report shall include but not be limited to aggregate data by county
 6 and region regarding:
 7 A. call volume and numbers of dispatches;
 8 B. average dispatch, time en route, and arrival time;
 9 C. emergency medical services agency staffing data; and
 10 D. comparisons of such data to previous data to the extent such
 11 comparisons are available.
 12 (ii) Data in such report shall be aggregated such that statistics
 13 related to individual emergency medical services agencies shall not be
 14 identifiable.
 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundredth day after it
 16 shall have become a law.

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