SB 89 — Relating to: certification requirements for emergency medical responders.

-Date 2022of LEGISLATUREenactment: LRB-0720/1 TJD:amn SENATE BILL 89 February 11, 2021 - Introduced by SenatorsARKLEIN, NASS, OWLES , EYEN and FELZKOWSKI, cosponsored by Representatives T RANEL, N OVAK, K URTZ, OLDENBURG , V ANDERM EER, JAGLER , K NODL, M OSES, M URPHY, M URSAU, RAMTHUN , SCHRAA and T USLER .

ReferredSenate toBill Committee89 onDate Insurance,of Licensingpublication*: and Forestry.

WISCONSIN ACT A N A CT to amend 256.15 (8) (b) 3.;

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First,national thisregistry bill prohibits the Department of Health Services from requiring an applicant who is applying for certification as an emergency medical respondertechnicians. to register with or take the examination of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT).

An ambulance service provider or another emergency medicalmedi- servicesSECTION program1. is allowed to require an emergency medical responder to register with or take the examination of the NREMT.

Current rules promulgated by DHS require an applicant for a license as an emergency medical services practitioner at any level, including an emergency medical responder, to be registered with the NREMT or, in certain circumstances, to complete the NREMT examination.

Currently, an applicant for certification as an emergency medical responder who demonstrates to DHS that the education, training, instruction, or other experience gained by the applicant in connection with military service is substantially equivalent to the course required for emergency medical responder certification is considered to have satisfied completion of that course.

This bill requires DHS to issue the certification for an applicant who has relevant education, training, and experience gained in connection with military service.

For applicants - 2022 Legislature - 2 - LRB-0720/1 TJD:amn SENATE BILL 89 with military service who are not affiliated with an ambulance service provider, the determination of whether an applicant has obtained the relevant education, training, and experience remains with DHS as under current law.

For applicants with military service intending to volunteer for or be employed by an ambulance service provider or emergency medical services program, the determination of whether an applicant has obtained relevant education, training, and experience is solely within the discretion of that ambulance service provider or emergency medical services program.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

of the statutes is cal services program may require an emergency medical amended to read:

responder to register with or take the examination of the 256.15 (8) (b) 3.

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SECTIONrorism, 2.and that is approved by the department.

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256.15256.17 (8)and (bm)vant Theeducation, training, instruction, or other experience 256.18, the department mayshall notissue requirea certificate as an that an applicant for initial certification as an emergency emergency medical responder, without requiring satis- medical responder towho registeris not affiliated with oran takeambu- thefactory examinationcompletion of theany nationalinstruction registryor oftraining that may lance service provider or emergency medical technicians.services be required under par.

An(b), ambulanceto serviceany providerindividual orwho anothermeets emergency medical services program mayobtained requirein anconnection emergency medical LRB-0720/1 - 2022 Legislature - 3 - TJD:amn SECTION 2 SENATE BILL 89 responder to register with orany takemilitary theser- examination of the nationalcriteria registryunder ofpar. emergency medical technicians as a condition of being employed by or volunteering with the provider or program.

SECTION 3.

256.15 (8) (fm) of the statutes is created to read:

256.15 (8) (fm) Except as provided in ss.

256.17 and 256.18, the department shall issue a certificate as an emergency medical responder, without requiring satisfactory completion of any instruction or training that may be required under par.

(b), to any individual who meets the criteria under par.

and has obtained relevantrele- education,vice, training, and experience in connection with military service, as defined in s.

111.32 (12g), satisfies the comple- vant education, training, and experience in connection tion of an emergency medical responder course, if the with military service, as defined in s.

The applicant demonstrates to the satisfaction of the depart- determination of whether an individual has obtained relevantrele- ment that the education, training, instruction, or other vant education, training, and experience is solely within experience obtained by the applicant is substantially the discretion of the ambulance service provider or emergencyemer- medicalequivalent servicesto program with which the individualemergency intendsmedical toresponder becourse. employed or to volunteer.

SECTIONgency 4.0Effectivemedical date.services program with which the individ- SECTION 2.

(1)256.15 This(8) act(bm) takesof effectthe onstatutes theis firstcreated dayual ofintends theto 7thbe monthemployed beginningor afterto publication.volunteer.

(END)to read:

S ECTION 4.Effective date.

256.15 (8) (bm) The department may not require an (1) This act takes effect on the first day of the 7th applicant for certification as an emergency medical month beginning after publication.

* Section 991.11ISCONSINSTATUTE:

Effective date of acts.

“Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”