S 10434 NY
Directs the department of health to collect certain data from relevant entities regarding calls and dispatches for emergency medical services
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Summary
This New York bill directs the Department of Health to collect detailed data from emergency medical services entities and 911 public safety answering points across the state regarding calls, dispatches, response times, and staffing. The data to be collected includes the number of dispatches, response times, staffing levels, and time metrics for both life-threatening and routine emergency medical services calls. Within twelve months of the law taking effect, and annually thereafter, the Department of Health must submit a report to state leadership summarizing the collected data by county and region, including call volumes, average response times, and staffing information. The data in the reports shall be aggregated by county and region to protect the privacy of individual emergency medical services agencies.
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Directs the department of health to collect certain data from relevant entities, and designated public safety answering points to receive 911 service calls, regarding calls and dispatches for emergency medical services; establishes reporting requirements.
Sponsor (1)
- Michelle Hinchey Democratic · primary
Action history (1)
- May 15, 2026 REFERRED TO HEALTH · upper
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  SPONSOR HINCHEY   COSPNSR   MLTSPNSR   Amd §3011, Pub Health L   Directs the department of health to collect certain data from relevant entities, and designated public safety answering points to receive 911 service calls, regarding calls and dispatches for emergency medical services; establishes reporting requirements.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
10434
IN SENATE
May 15, 2026 ___________
Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the department of health to collect certain data from entities regarding calls and dispatches for emergency medical services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3011 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 3 1-a. a. The department shall collect, from all relevant entities 4 subject to the provisions of this article and from designated public 5 safety answering points to receive 911 service calls in the state, 6 including but not limited to the state police and the office of homeland 7 security, and provide an analysis of the following data elements includ- 8 ing, but not limited to: 9 (i) the actual number and percentage of all dispatches for emergency 10 medical services in their primary service operating territory; 11 (ii) the actual number and percentage of all dispatches for emergency 12 medical services in their primary service operating territory excluding 13 interfacility non-emergency trips; 14 (iii) the number and percentages of dispatches made pursuant to a 15 mutual aid agreement, aggregated by city, county, town and village 16 across the state; 17 (iv) the timelines and standards for dispatches made pursuant to a 18 mutual aid agreement, aggregated by city, county, town and village 19 across the state; 20 (v) the response times for each dispatch for each public service 21 answering point across the state; 22 (vi) the number of full-time equivalents for each EMS program agency 23 including paid and volunteer positions; 24 (vii) the time dispatch, the time en route, and time to arrive at the 25 scene of life threatening calls for emergency medical services; and 26 (viii) the time dispatch, the time en route, and time to arrive at the 27 scene of all calls for emergency medical services.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15381-08-6
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1 b. (i) Within twelve months of the effective date of this subdivision, 2 and annually thereafter, the department shall submit a report summariz- 3 ing information collected pursuant to this subdivision to the governor, 4 the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly. 5 Such report shall include but not be limited to aggregate data by county 6 and region regarding: 7 A. call volume and numbers of dispatches; 8 B. average dispatch, time en route, and arrival time; 9 C. emergency medical services agency staffing data; and 10 D. comparisons of such data to previous data to the extent such 11 comparisons are available. 12 (ii) Data in such report shall be aggregated such that statistics 13 related to individual emergency medical services agencies shall not be 14 identifiable. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundredth day after it 16 shall have become a law.
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