HB 4312 HIL AM 1-29

JP – 3262

    The Committee on Industry and Labor moves to amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause, and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

    “That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated § 18-2-26B; and that § 22A-10-1 of said Code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:

CHAPTER 18. EDUCATION.

ARTICLE 2. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

§18-2-26b. Certification Requirement for Emergency Medical Technician-industrial

    (a) Commencing July 1, 2014, an applicant for certification as an emergency medical technician-industrial shall:

    (1) Be at least 18 years old;

    (2) Apply through his or her local Regional Educational Service Agency on a form prescribed by the State Board of Education;

    (3) Possess a valid CPR certification;

    (4) Successfully complete an emergency medical technician-industrial education program prescribed by the State Board of Education through Regional Educational Service Agencies; and

    (5) Successfully complete emergency medical technician-industrial cognitive and skills examinations prescribed by the State Board of Education through Regional Educational Service Agencies.

    (b) The emergency medical technician-industrial certification is valid for three years.

    (c) A certified emergency medical technician-industrial is only authorized to practice on industrial property. For the purposes of this section, industrial property means property on which production, extraction or manufacturing is being performed.

    (d) To be recertified as an emergency medical technician-industrial, an applicant shall:

    (1) Apply through his or her local Regional Educational Service Agency on a form prescribed by the State Board of Education;

    (2) Possess a valid CPR certification;

    (3) Successfully complete one of the following training programs:

    (A) A one time thirty-two hour emergency medical technician-industrial recertification course prescribed by the State Board of Education, administered through Regional Educational Service Agencies; or

    (B) Three annual eight-hour retraining and testing programs prescribed by the State Board of Education, administered through the Regional Education Service Agencies; and

    (4) Successfully complete emergency medical technician-industrial cognitive and skills recertification examinations prescribed by the State Board of Education through the Regional Education Service Agencies.

    (e) Commencing July 1, 2014, the certification for emergency medical technician-mining shall be known as a certification for emergency medical technician-industrial, and any current certifications for emergency medical technician-mining remain valid as a certification for emergency medical technician-industrial until the original expiration date, at which time the person will have to recertify as an emergency medical technician-industrial under the provisions of this section.

    (f) Commencing July 1, 2014, persons with emergency medical technician-industrial certification do not qualify as emergency service personnel as defined by the Emergency Medical Services Act and the legislative rules promulgated pursuant to the Emergency Medical Services Act.

    (g) The State Board of Education shall propose legislative rules for promulgation, in accordance with the provisions of article three-b, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, necessary for the transaction of its business or to carry out the purposes of this section.

CHAPTER 22A. MINERS' HEALTH, SAFETY AND TRAINING.

ARTICLE 10. EMERGENCY MEDICAL PERSONNEL.

§22A-10-1. Emergency personnel in coal mines.

    (a) Emergency medical services personnel must be employed on each shift at every mine that:

    (1) Employs more than ten employees; and

    (2) Has more than eight persons present on the shift.

    The emergency medical services personnel must be employed at their regular duties at a central location or, when more than one person is required pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, at a location which provides for convenient, quick response to emergency. The emergency medical services personnel must have available to them at all times such equipment prescribed by the director of the office of miners' health, safety and training, in consultation with the commissioner of the bureau of public health.

    (b) After the first day of July, two thousand, July 1, 2014, emergency medical services personnel means any person certified by the commissioner of the bureau of public health or authorities recognized and approved by the commissioner to provide emergency medical services as authorized in article four-c, chapter sixteen of this code and including emergency medical technician-mining. or any person with an emergency medical technician-industry certification. At least one emergency medical services personnel shall be employed at a mine for every fifty employees or any part thereof who are engaged at any time, in the extraction, production or preparation of coal.

    (c) A training course designed specifically for certification of emergency medical technician-mining, technician-industry shall be developed at the earliest practicable time by the commissioner of the bureau of public health the State Board of Education through the Regional Educational Service Agencies in consultation with the board of miner training, education and certification. The training course for initial certification as an emergency medical technician-mining technician-industry shall not be less than sixty hours, which shall include, but is not limited to, basic life support skills and emergency room observation or other equivalent practical exposure to emergencies as prescribed by the commissioner of the bureau of public health. the State Board of Education.

    (d) The maintenance of a valid emergency medical technician-mining technician-industry certificate may be accomplished without taking a three-year recertification examination: Provided, That the emergency medical technician-mining technician-industry personnel completes an eight-hour annual retraining and testing program prescribed by the commissioner of the bureau of public health the State Board of Education, administered through the Regional Education Service Agencies, in consultation with the board of miner training, education and certification.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to create a certification process for emergency medical technician-industrial to replace and expand the certification for emergency medical technician-mining. The purpose of this bill is also to move the implementation and regulation of the emergency medical technician-industrial certification from the Office of Emergency Medical Services to the Regional Educational Service Agencies.

    §18-2-26a is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored