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MN HF2841
Bill
Status
3/14/2012
Primary Sponsor
Mike Benson
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AI Summary
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Requires all 911 public safety answering points to provide emergency prearrival medical instructions to callers reporting cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, uncontrolled bleeding, or shock.
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Allows jurisdictions to provide medical instruction services directly or through agreements with hospitals, advanced life support emergency medical service providers, or other nationally recognized emergency medical dispatch service providers.
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Requires single-button telephone transfer connection for service providers when medical instruction services are provided through outside agreements.
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Allows 911 funds to cover expenses related to providing prearrival emergency medical instructions as an allowable expenditure.
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Effective date is January 1, 2012.
Legislative Description
Emergency medical instruction for emergency calls provision required by all 911 public safety answering points, and any expenses related to this change specifically provided to be covered under the current allowable expenditures for 911 funds.
Last Action
Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety and Crime Prevention Policy and Finance
3/14/2012