SB 5900 — Creating a provisional paramedic or emergency medical technician license.

S-4031.3S-3636.2 SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5900 State of Washington 67th Legislature 2022 Regular Session By Senate Health & Long Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators Van De Wege, Keiser, Conway, Hasegawa, Lovick, Randall, and Saldaña)Saldaña READRead FIRSTfirst TIMEtime 01/31/22.01/19/22.

ANReferred ACT Relating to creatingCommittee aon provisionalHealth certification& forLong emergencyTerm medicalCare. services providers under chapters 18.71 and 18.73 RCW;

AN ACT Relating to creating a provisional paramedic or emergency medical technician license;

(1) EmergencyParamedics medicaland servicesemergency providersmedical technicians who are currently licensed or certified in another state orand who hold a current certification from a national certifyingregistry agencyof approvedemergency bymedical thetechnicians departmentcertification are eligible for a Washington provisional paramedic or emergency servicesmedical providertechnician certification.license.

(2) To be eligible for a Washington provisional paramedic or emergency servicesmedical providertechnician certification,license, the applicant shall:

(a) Be currently licensed or certified in another state and be in good standing with the emergency medical servicestechnician licensing board of that statestate; or hold a current emergency medical services provider certification from a national certifying agency approved by the department;

(b) BeHold employeda orcurrent haveemergency amedical validtechnician employmentor offerparamedic certification from athe Washingtonnational registry of emergency medical servicestechnicians, agency;and paramedics must have attended an accredited paramedic school;

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1 SSBSB 5900 (c) Be approvedemployed foror have a provisionalvalid statusemployment offer from thea countyWashington emergency medical programservices directoragency; in which the applicant is or will be employed.

(3)(d) IfBe approved for a provisional status from the employeremergency ormedical hostservices medical director of the Washington agency has:for which the applicant is or will be employed;

(a)and Fewer(e) thanProvide 25evidence employeesof holdingbeing a current emergencyon medicalongoing techniciantraining. or paramedic certification or license, up to 20 percent of those employees, rounded to the next whole number, may practice under a provisional certification;

or(3) (b)The Twenty-fiveapplicant orshall morepay employeesthe holdingfollowing afees currentas emergencypart medicalof technicianthe orapplication paramedicprocess certificationin oraccordance license,with upadministrative toprocedures 10and percentrequirements ofas thoseprovided employees,in roundedRCW to43.70.250 theand next43.70.280: whole number, may practice under a provisional certification.

(a) $300 for a paramedic or emergency medical technician application;

and (b) $50 for a provisional paramedic or emergency medical technician fee.

and (f)p. Adoption of standards for numbers and qualifications of instructional personnel required for first responder and emergency medical technician training programs;

p.2 SB 5900 (f) Adoption of standards for numbers and qualifications of instructional personnel required for first responder and emergency medical technician training programs;

2 SSB 5900 (4) Prescribe minimum requirements for liability insurance to be carried by licensed services except that this requirement shall not apply to public bodies;

The secretaryp. shall be the disciplining authority under this section.

Disciplinary3 actionSB 5900 secretary shall be initiatedthe againstdisciplining aauthority person credentialed under this chaptersection. in a manner consistent with the responsibilities p.

3Disciplinary SSBaction 5900shall be initiated against a person credentialed under this chapter in a manner consistent with the responsibilities and duties of the medical program director under whom such person is responsible.

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