New York A 7356: Relates to staffing standards for employees performing emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city with a population of over one million people

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A07356 Summary:

BILL NOA07356A

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SAME ASSAME AS S06698-A

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SPONSORPheffer Amato

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COSPNSRBerger, Seawright, Braunstein, Griffin

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3005-a, Pub Health L

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Sets minimum staffing standards for employees performing emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city with a population of over one million people.

Go to top A07356 Actions:

BILL NOA07356A

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03/25/2025referred to health

06/06/2025amend and recommit to health

06/06/2025print number 7356a

06/11/2025reference changed to ways and means

06/12/2025reported referred to rules

06/13/2025reported 

06/13/2025rules report cal.737

06/13/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.737

06/13/2025substituted by s6698a

&nbspS06698 AMEND=A JACKSON

&nbsp03/20/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

&nbsp05/28/20251ST REPORT CAL.1389

&nbsp05/29/20252ND REPORT CAL.

&nbsp06/04/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

&nbsp06/09/2025AMENDED ON THIRD READING 6698A

&nbsp06/12/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/12/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/13/2025referred to ways and means

&nbsp06/13/2025substituted for a7356a

&nbsp06/13/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.737

&nbsp06/13/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/13/2025returned to senate

&nbsp10/09/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp10/16/2025VETOED MEMO.51

Go to topA07356 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow 
DATE:06/12/2025AYE/NAY:34/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyeRaAye

GlickAyeFitzpatrickAye

ColtonAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

BenedettoAyePalmesanoAye

WeprinExcusedWalshAye

RamosAyeDeStefanoAye

BraunsteinAyeManktelowAye

McDonaldAyeSmullenAye

RozicAyeGiglioAye

DinowitzAye

MagnarelliAye

BronsonAye

DilanAye

SeawrightAye

HyndmanAye

WalkerAye

Bichotte HermelAye

SimonAye

CruzAye

OtisAye

SolagesAye

HunterAye

EpsteinAye

SeptimoAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:06/13/2025AYE/NAY:29/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

GlickAyeRaAye

DinowitzAyeBrabenecAye

ColtonAyePalmesanoAye

RosenthalAyeReillyAye

PaulinAyeSmithAye

Peoples-StokesAyeJensenAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

StirpeAye

CruzAye

VanelExcused

Go to topA07356 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA07356 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7356--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 25, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, BERGER -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended,
 ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to staffing standards
 for employees performing emergency medical services in the 911 system
 in a city with a population of over one million people

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3005-a of the public health law,
 2 as amended by chapter 445 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 1. The following staffing standards shall be in effect unless other-
 5 wise provided by this section:
 6 (a) effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven the minimum
 7 staffing standard for a registered ambulance service shall be a certi-
 8 fied first responder with the patient;
 9 (b) effective January first, two thousand, the minimum staffing stand-
 10 ard for a voluntary ambulance service shall be an emergency medical
 11 technician with the patient;
 12 (c) (i) the minimum staffing standard for ambulance units responding
 13 to calls for emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city with
 14 a population of over one million people shall be (1) a team of two
 15 certified emergency medical technicians; or (2) a team of two certified
 16 advanced emergency medical technicians.
 17 (ii) the minimum standard for staffing supervisors' vehicles respond-
 18 ing to calls for emergency medical services in the 911 system in a city
 19 with a population of over one million people shall be a team of one
 20 supervi