New York S 8847: Relates to establishing an office of antibiotic resistance control and to establishing the antibiotics education fund

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S08847 Summary:

BILL NOS08847 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09528

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SPONSORJACKSON

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COSPNSRMARTINEZ, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, ADDABBO

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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.

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BILL NOS08847 

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01/09/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

05/19/20261ST REPORT CAL.1238

05/20/20262ND REPORT CAL.

05/21/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/04/2026SUBSTITUTED BY A9528

&nbspA09528 AMEND= Pheffer Amato

&nbsp01/14/2026referred to health

&nbsp05/19/2026reported referred to ways and means

&nbsp06/02/2026reported referred to rules

&nbsp06/02/2026reported 

&nbsp06/02/2026rules report cal.352

&nbsp06/02/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.352

&nbsp06/02/2026passed assembly

&nbsp06/02/2026delivered to senate

&nbsp06/02/2026REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp06/04/2026SUBSTITUTED FOR S8847

&nbsp06/04/20263RD READING CAL.1238

&nbsp06/04/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/04/2026RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8847

 IN SENATE

 January 9, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, MARTINEZ, SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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 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 supervisor who is certified either as an emergency medical technician or
 21 as an advanced emergency medical technician, paired with one certified
 22 emergency medical technician or advanced emergency medical technician;
 23 (d) the minimum staffing standard for all other ambulance services
 24 shall be an emergency medical technician with the patient; and
 25 [(d)] (e) the minimum staffing standard for an advanced life support
 26 first response service shall be an advanced emergency medical technician

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11189-04-5

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 1 with the patient. Circumstances permitting other than advanced life
 2 support care by an advanced life support first response service may be
 3 established by rule by the state council, subject to the approval of the
 4 commissioner.
 5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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