Brief (1)
HB 2695 amends one of the statutes in the act under which emergency medical services attendants are certified. The amendments delete references to instructor-coordinators certificates from the statute and add new grounds for denying, revoking, suspending, limiting, modifying, or refusing to renew a certificate authorizing an individual to act as an emergency medical services attendant. Currently the Emergency Medical Services Board may take any such actions if an applicant for an initial or renewal certificate has been convicted of a felony. The amendments would add conviction of any crime, whether felony or misdemeanor, involving the Uniform Controlled Substances Act or a felony or misdemeanor conviction of a crime specified in Articles 34 or 35 of Chapter 21 of the Kansas Statutes, with the exception of those crimes included in such Articles that are specifically excepted in the bill. Article 34 concerns crimes against persons, and Article 35 concerns sex offenses. The crimes that are excepted from the prohibition are unlawful interference with a firefighter, permitting dangerous animals to be at large, interference with parental custody and aggravated interference with parental custody, interference with custody of a committed person, blackmail, disclosure of information obtained from the preparation of income tax returns for commercial purposes, and promoting or permitting hazing.
Background
HB 2695 was introduced at the request of the Board of Emergency Medical Services whose representative supported the bill during the Committee hearing. Support for the bill was also expressed by a representative of the Association of Emergency Medical Services Attendants.
The fiscal note on the bill indicates there would be no fiscal effect from passage of HB 2695.
1. *Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at http://www.ink.org/public/legislative/bill_search.html