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including the provision of emergency
services at all campuses unless a waiver
is approved. Effective September 1, 2005.
HB 2619, Hagar Directs the Office of
Rural Community Affairs to assist rural
areas with the establishment of
emergency services districts. Effective
September 1, 2005.
SB 310, Duell This law allows certain
emergency medical technicians or
firefighters to presume certain illnesses
were caused by factors encountered
during the course of duties when
compensation for the disease or illness is
sought. Those covered include
emergency medical technicians
employed by a political subdivision and
volunteer or paid firefighters. Illnesses
presumed to be caused by duties include
cancer (unless the individual or spouse
uses tobacco products); tuberculosis,
smallpox and acute myocardial
infarction or stroke. Certain other
conditions must be present as well and
there are restrictions on the kinds of
compensation. Effective September 1,
2005.
SB 330, Duell This bill directs GETAC
to appoint a stroke committee by
January 1, 2006, to assist GETAC in the
development of a statewide stroke
emergency transport plan and submit a
report to the governor, lieutenant
governor, speaker of the house,
representatives and executive
commissioner of HHSC by January 1,
2007. Effective September 1, 2005.
SB 1113, Gallegos This bill amends
the Health and Safety Code to allow a
hospital to release a patient's protected
health information (PHI) to EMS for the
purpose of treatment or payment, as
defined by HIPAA; and for certain
health care operations described in
HIPAA, such as quality assessment and
improvement activities. With this law,
there should be no question that EMS
personnel transporting a patient shouldhave access to the patient's hospital
medical information. Effective September
1, 2005.
SB 523, Duell Moves responsibility of
the emergency medical dispatch pilot
program from DSHS to the University of
Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
UTMB, with input from GETAC, shall
establish a pilot program to test the
efficacy of using emergency medical
dispatcher in a regional emergency
medical dispatch resource center.
Effective immediately.
In addition, several riders will affect
EMS and trauma systems. A rider is a
provision added to a bill, in this case the
Appropriations Act, that may or may not
relate to the subject of the bill.
Trauma Formula Distribution The
Legislature directed DSHS, when
allocating money from the EMS and
Trauma Care System Fund (9-1-1 monies),
to weight the statutory criteria in such a
way that, when possible, 40 perent of the
funds are allocated to urban counties and
60 to rural and frontier.
ECA Training DSHS is directed to
allocate $50,000 in 2006 and $50,000 in
2007 for ECA training grants to
communities lacking local training
resources.
Estimated Appropriation for
Designated Trauma Facility and EMS
Account This account benefits hospitals,
EMS and RACs. DSHS was appropriated
to distribute approximately $31,800,000
for both 2006 and 2007. In addition, DSHS
was appropri-ated any monies above
$59,400,000 for 2006 and $80,368,000 for
2007. What that means is that DSHS will
be able to expend on grants nearly $32
million each of those years and anything
above the second amounts listed. DSHS
will not be able to expend any monies
collected above the $31.8 million in those
years and below the second amounts
listed. -Kelly Harrell
July/August 2005 Texas EMS Magazine 13
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