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91_SB1609
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1 AN ACT to amend the Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
2 Systems Act.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems
6 Act is amended by changing Section 3.155 as follows:
7 (210 ILCS 50/3.155)
8 Sec. 3.155. General Provisions.
9 (a) Authority and responsibility for the EMS System
10 shall be vested in the EMS Resource Hospital, through the EMS
11 Medical Director or his designee.
12 (b) For an inter-hospital emergency or non-emergency
13 medical transport, in which the physician from the sending
14 hospital provides the EMS personnel with written medical
15 orders, such written medical orders cannot exceed the scope
16 of care which the EMS personnel are authorized to render
17 pursuant to this Act.
18 (c) For an inter-hospital emergency or non-emergency
19 medical transport of a patient who requires medical care
20 beyond the scope of care which the EMS personnel are
21 authorized to render pursuant to this Act, a qualified
22 physician, nurse, perfusionist or respiratory therapist
23 familiar with the scope of care needed must accompany the
24 patient and the transferring hospital and physician shall
25 assume medical responsibility for that portion of the medical
26 care.
27 (d) No emergency medical services vehicles or personnel
28 from another State or nation may be utilized on a regular
29 basis to pick up and transport patients within this State
30 without first complying with this Act and all rules adopted
31 by the Department pursuant to this Act.
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1 (e) This Act shall not prevent emergency medical
2 services vehicles or personnel from another State or nation
3 from rendering requested assistance in this State in a
4 disaster situation, or operating from a location outside the
5 State and occasionally transporting patients into this State
6 for needed medical care. Except as provided in Section 31 of
7 this Act, this Act shall not provide immunity from liability
8 for such activities.
9 (f) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this
10 Section, no person or entity shall transport emergency or
11 non-emergency patients by ambulance, SEMSV or medical carrier
12 without first complying with the provisions of this Act and
13 all rules adopted pursuant to this Act.
14 (g) Nothing in this Act or the rules adopted by the
15 Department under this Act shall be construed to authorize any
16 medical treatment to or transportation of any person who
17 objects on religious grounds.
18 (h) A person may not smoke while inside an ambulance,
19 SEMSV, or medical carrier. A violation of this subsection is
20 punishable by a civil penalty of $100.
21 (Source: P.A. 89-177, eff. 7-19-95.)