Summary

Sponsor: Rep. Switalski
Topic: Definitions of Emergency Departments and Personnel
Committee: Employment Relations, Training and Safety

This bill would make amendments to basic definitions of public emergency departments and personnel. For instance, the definition of ‘public police and fire departments' would include any city, county, village, or township that had employees either engaged as or subject to the hazards of police officers, corrections officers, firefighters, their related emergency medical services personnel and any emergency telephone operators employed by a police or fire department.

The term ‘emergency service personnel' would refer to any individual who provided assistance at either a dispatched or observed medical emergency outside of a proper medical facility, initiated stabilizing treatment or patient transportation or informed the police as to any extenuating circumstances, such as the involvement of criminal matters, poisonings and contagious diseases.

‘Emergency telephone operator' would indicate any individual who was employed by a police or fire department for the purpose of relaying emergency calls to police, fire or emergency medical service personnel.

Finally, this act would not apply to individuals employed by private emergency medical services companies that work under contract with governmental units or individuals in emergency service organizations that serve in a purely administrative capacities.