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HF 938

as introduced - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 02/28/2024 05:48pm

KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.

Bill Text Versions

Engrossments
Introduction Posted on 01/26/2023

Current Version - as introduced

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A bill for an act
relating to health; modifying requirements for ambulance service mutual aid
agreements; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 144E.101, subdivision
12.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 144E.101, subdivision 12, is amended to read:


Subd. 12.

Mutual aid agreement.

(a) A licensee shall have a written agreement with
at least one neighboring licensed ambulance service for the preplanned and organized
response of emergency medical services, and other emergency personnel and equipment,
to a request for assistance in an emergency when local ambulance transport resources have
been expended. The response is predicated upon formal agreements among participating
ambulance services. A copy of each mutual aid agreement shall be maintained in the files
of the licensee.

(b) A licensee may have a written agreement with a neighboring licensed ambulance
service, including a licensed ambulance service from a neighboring state if that service is
currently and remains in compliance with its home state licensing requirements, to provide
deleted text begin part-timedeleted text end support to the primary service area of the licensee upon the licensee's request. The
agreement may allow the licensee to suspend ambulance services in its primary service area
during the times the neighboring licensed ambulance service has agreed to provide all
emergency services to the licensee's primary service area. The agreement may deleted text begin notdeleted text end permit
the neighboring licensed ambulance service to serve the licensee's primary service area for
deleted text begin more than 12deleted text end new text begin up to 24new text end hours per day. This paragraph applies only to an ambulance service
whose primary service area is mainly located outside the metropolitan counties listed in
section 473.121, subdivision 4, and outside the cities of Duluth, Mankato, Moorhead,
Rochester, and St. Cloud, or an ambulance based in a community with a population of less
than 2,500 persons.