Section 3005-B. Emergency medical technician five year re-certification demonstration program

1. There is hereby created within the  department
  a  demonstration  program (referred to in this section as the "program")
  to allow emergency medical technicians and  advanced  emergency  medical
  technicians   who   have  been  in  continuous  practice  and  who  have
  demonstrated  competence  in  applicable  behavioral   and   performance
  objectives,  to  be re-certified for a five year period. No person shall
  be re-certified under the program unless he  or  she  has  completed  at
  least  one  hundred  thirty  hours  of  instruction in emergency medical
  services as approved by the commissioner including but  not  limited  to
  pediatrics,   geriatrics,   environmental   emergencies,  legal  issues,
  emergency vehicle operations course and medical emergencies. Renewals of
  certification under the program shall be deemed equivalent  to  renewals
  under subdivision two of section three thousand two of this article.
    2. The program shall be limited to persons who are employed by the New
  York  city  fire  department  or  who  are  in practice in the following
  counties:  Delaware,  Fulton,  Hamilton,  Montgomery,  Nassau,   Otsego,
  Schoharie   or  Suffolk.  The  commissioner  may  limit  the  number  of
  participants in the program, except that such limit  shall  be  no  less
  than four thousand participants.
    3.   Within  a  year  after  implementing  the  program  and  annually
  thereafter, the commissioner  shall  report  to  the  governor  and  the
  legislature  on the impact of the program on the quality of patient care
  and the  effectiveness  of  the  program  in  retaining  and  recruiting
  certified  emergency  medical technicians and advanced emergency medical
  technicians.
    4. The commissioner, in consultation with the state emergency  medical
  services  council,  shall  make  regulations necessary to implement this
  section.
    * NB Repealed July 1, 2013